Champions Trophy 2025: Team India found a solution to Travis Head, they get defeated by this bowler

Champions Trophy 2025: Team India will face Australia in the semi-finals of the Champions Trophy 2025. Team India will try to win this match and avenge the defeat in the finals of the ODI World Cup and Test Champions Trophy.

However, Team India will have to be careful of one Australian player in this match. The name of this player is Travis Head. However, Team India has found a solution to Travis Head as well.

Indian all-rounder Hardik Pandya can prove to be a threat to Australian opener Travis Head in the upcoming Champions Trophy semi-final match between India and Australia. Head has performed brilliantly against India in recent years, but Pandya’s bowling has been challenging for him.

Travis Head’s performance against India

Head has scored 1,763 runs in 32 matches against India at an average of 44.07, which includes 4 centuries and 6 half-centuries. He scored centuries in the World Test Championship final and the ODI World Cup final in 2023. Apart from this, his performance was also excellent during the Border-Gavaskar Test series. In such a situation, he would like to perform well in the semi-finals against India.

Head’s performance against Hardik Pandya

In ODIs, Head has scored 21 runs off 14 balls against Pandya’s bowling, but has been dismissed twice, taking his average to 1015. Pandya’s natural length is back of a length, which can be a problem for Head. Head is comfortable playing outside the off side, but struggles against short balls near the rib.

Both teams for Champions Trophy:

Steve Smith (captain), Sean Abbott, Alex Carey, Ben Dwarthuis, Nathan Ellis, Jake Fraser McGurk, Aaron Hardie, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Spencer Johnson, Marnus Labuschagne, Glenn Maxwell, Tanveer Sangha, Cooper Connolly, Adam Zampa.

India Cricket Team: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Shreyas Iyer, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Arshdeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Varun Chakraborty.