3rd ODI: Australia wins toss and elects to bat against India at Indore
By Online Desk | Published: 24th September 2017 01:14 PM |
Last Updated: 24th September 2017 01:17 PM | A+A A- |
India's captain Virat Kohli celebrate with team members after beating Australia during the 2nd ODI cricket match at Eden Garden in Kolkata on Thursday. | PTI
Australia's captain Steven Smith won the toss and has elected to bat in the 3rd ODI against India. India is going into the game with the same team they won the 2nd ODI while Australia have made two changes. Aaron Finch and Handscomb have come into the side instead of Cartwright and Wade.
On a 10-match overseas losing streak, the Steve Smith-led side will have their task cut out and face a must-win situation to have a chance at the trophy.
On the other hand, India are currently on an eight-match winning run, and hold an upper hand at Indore, where the men-in-blue have a 100 percent winning record (won all four of their matches so far).
Surprisingly the credit of No.1-ranked India's success in the ongoing series goes more to the bowlers, who have managed to defend scores of 164 (revised target in 21 overs) and 252 in the first two matches.
India's new-found spin-twins Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal have racked up 10 wickets together in the series so far and will once again be skipper Virat Kohli's go-to men in the middle overs.
Australia XI: 1 David Warner, 2 Aaron Finch, 3 Steven Smith (capt), 4 Travis Head, 5 Peter Handscomb (wk), 6 Glenn Maxwell, 7 Marcus Stoinis, 8 Pat Cummins, 9 Nathan Coulter-Nile, 10 Kane Richardson, 11 Ashton Agar
India XI: 1 Ajinkya Rahane, 2 Rohit Sharma, 3 Virat Kohli (capt), 4 Manish Pandey, 5 Kedar Jadhav, 6 MS Dhoni (wk), 7 Hardik Pandya, 8 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 9 Kuldeep Yadav, 10 Yuzvendra Chahal, 11 Jasprit Bumrah
