Melbourne Cricket Ground is ready to host the 2022 Boxing Day Test, which will be the second game of the three-match Test series of Australia vs South Africa.
The hosts Australia are currently leading this series by 1-0 after they won the controversial Gabba Test by six wickets, which turned out to be a complete bowling-friendly wicket.
AUS vs SA Match Overview
Match: Australia vs South Africa
Format: Test
Match no in the series: 2nd of 3-match Test series (part of ICC World Test Championship 2021-2023)
Date and Time: From Monday, 26th December to Friday, 30th December 2022. Each day of this Test match has been scheduled to begin at 05:00 IST (10:30 local time)
Venue: Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne
Live Broadcasting/Streaming (only in India): Sony Sports Network, SonyLIV
AUS vs SA Weather Forecast
According to weather.com, there are strong rain threats on Wednesday (73%), medium rain threats on Monday (30%) and Friday (48%).
AUS vs SA Pitch Report
Melbourne Cricket Ground (Melbourne), the popular giant Test cricket venue now brings sporting pitches in the longer format. In the last two Tests, the first batting teams hugely struggled, and second batting teams won the matches. Both those last two MCG Tests experienced little better batting conditions on the second days.
Toss prediction: Win the toss and bowl first.
AUS vs SA XIs
Australia Official XI: David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Travis Head, Cameron Green, Alex Carey (wk), Pat Cummins (C), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Scott Boland
South Africa Predicted XI: Dean Elgar (C), Sarel Erwee, Rassie van der Dussen, Temba Bavuma, Khaya Zondo, Kyle Verreynne (wk), Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Lungi Ngidi.
AUS vs SA Dream11 Team Prediction #1:
Wicketkeeper(s): Kyle Verreynne
Batters: D Warner, D Elgar, S Smith, T Bavuma, R van der-Dussen, M Labuschagne (C)
All-rounder(s): T Head
Bowlers: M Starc, P Cummins, K Rabada (vc)
AUS vs SA Dream11 Team Prediction #2:
Wicketkeeper(s): A Carey
Batters: D Warner, S Smith, R van der-Dussen, M Labuschagne
All-rounder(s): T Head (C), M Jansen
Bowlers: M Starc, P Cummins (vc), K Rabada, A Nortje
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