India vs Australia: Weather report for match 1st Semi-Final of Champions Trophy 2025 at Dubai International Stadium, Dubai

India and Australia are set to take on each other in the first semi-final of the ongoing ICC Champions Trophy 2025. The knockout clash will be played at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai on Tuesday, March 4, at 2:30 PM (IST). It will be a high-octane clash as India will aim to clear off the books of the ODI World Cup 2023 defeat against Australia.

The conditions have been quite typical and complicated to tackle with in the ongoing edition of the Champions Trophy. The pitch and weather conditions here have been assisting the spinners to a great extent.

With that said, here we’ll look at the weather report for the India vs Australia, first semi-final at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai.

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India vs Australia: Weather Report

The weather will be quite sunny, and the skies will be clear in the first half of the game. The temperature here in the afternoon will be 26 degrees Celsius, which will reduce to 25 degrees Celsius. However, the cloud cover will increase to 20 per cent in the evening from 5 per cent cloud cover in the afternoon. 

Later in the night, the cloud cover will reduce to 3 per cent, and the temperature will lower down to 21 degrees Celsius. The weather conditions might favour the spinners in the second half of the game.

India vs Australia: Pitch Report

The surface at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai is known for its bowling-friendly nature, especially in the second half of the game. The pacers will have an upper hand in the first innings, while the spinners might get going in the later part of the game. 

The average first-innings score here has been 209 runs, while the overall average score is 206. So, the toss-winning skipper will look ahead to bat first and defend the target under bowling-friendly conditions. 

Here’s a look at the predicted playing xi of both teams for 1st Semi-Final:

India: 

Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, and Varun Chakaravarthy.

Australia:

Travis Head, Josh Inglis (wk), Steven Smith (capt), Marnus Labuschagne, Cooper Connolly, Alex Carey, Glenn Maxwell, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Spencer Johnson, and Adam Zampa.

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