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Toss India selected to bowl vs Australia

Just 4 days after they contested the World Cup remaining, each groups face the tough activity of getting to entrance up for the five-match collection.

Australia made plenty of modifications to spark what is perhaps a sluggish crew attempting to shake out of partying mode.

There was a lot intrigue over whether or not Travis Head, who was the participant of the ultimate after his century, would play having celebrated mightily along with his revelry amusingly captured on social media.

But he unsurprisingly was not noted from the XI, as have been World Cup-winning team-mates Glenn Maxwell and Adam Zampa. Steven Smith will open having efficiently batted on the high for Sydney Sixers in final season’s BBL, whereas Josh Inglis will play as a specialist batter at No.3.

India have nearly a very totally different crew from the World Cup with Suryakumar their solely participant who’s backing up from the ultimate. He will captain India for the primary time instead of injured T20 skipper Hardik Pandya.

Ishan Kishan will take the gloves, whereas left-arm spinner Axar Patel returns.

The collection might sound shoehorned into cricket’s congested calendar, however for each groups it successfully begins their preparations for subsequent yr’s T20 World Cup within the Caribbean and the USA.

The floor is anticipated to be laborious and good for batting amid humid situations.

India: 1 Ruturaj Gaikwad, 2 Suryakumar Yadav (capt), 3 Yashasvi Jaiswal 4 Ishan Kishan (wk), 5 Tilak Varma, 6 Rinku Singh, 7 Axar Patel, 8 Ravi Bishnoi, 9 Arshdeep Singh, 10 Mukesh Kumar, 11 Prasidh Krishna

Australia: 1 Steven Smith, 2 Matthew Short, 3 Josh Inglis 4 Aaron Hardie, 5 Marcus Stoinis, 6 Tim David, 7 Matthew Wade (capt, wk), 8 Sean Abbott, 9 Nathan Ellis, 10 Jason Behrendorff, 11 Tanveer Sangha