🏏Australia Tour of India - 3rd T20I - Hyderabad 🏏 - Page 3

India (Playing XI): KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma(c), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Dinesh Karthik(w), Axar Patel, Harshal Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Yuzvendra Chahal

Rohit Sharma - We will bowl first. It's good to be back in Hyderabad and play in front of this crowd. We look to keep winning games, it's important to maintain your momentum in this format of the game, so it was a good win for us. Australia have always been challenging, they bring in a different kind of challenge. We need to keep doing the basics right if we have to get success. The last win helped us gain confidence and I hope everyone steps up. One change for us - Bhuvi is back, Rishabh misses out, we needed only 4 bowlers in the last game, so he missed out.

Aaron Finch - We would have fielded as well, it looks like a good wicket though. We always want to perform against the best sides, in that sense this is a very important game for us. The crowds in India have always been amazing, regardless of where they play. One change for us. Josh Inglis comes in place of Sean Abbott.

India (Playing XI): KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma(c), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Dinesh Karthik(w), Axar Patel, Harshal Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Yuzvendra Chahal

Australia (Playing XI): Aaron Finch(c), Cameron Green, Steven Smith, Glenn Maxwell, Tim David, Josh Inglis, Matthew Wade(w), Daniel Sams, Pat Cummins, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood

Aaron Finch - We would have fielded as well, it looks like a good wicket though. We always want to perform against the best sides, in that sense this is a very important game for us. The crowds in India have always been amazing, regardless of where they play. One change for us. Josh Inglis comes in place of Sean Abbott.

All the best both teams

Originally posted by: RandomWaliLadki

Honestly I think what Deepti Sharma did was absolutely correct. Cause mankading is now considered a legal way of runout, there is nothing wrong in doing this. The batter should have been more careful.

And I noticed it always have to be an English player involved in a mankading.😆

I'm in favour of whatever Sharma did. It was withing the rules. EOS.

Eng players are just salty especially since it happened at Lords 😆.

Would have been nice to see something funny from another ICT men player apart from Ashwin 😳

Near the Stadium, some touts are selling Rs 850 tickets for Rs11000 [ yes, eleven thousand rupees] !!!

Dinesh Karthik: That (to play 20-25 balls) will be an ideal situation. But given how the middle-order batters are shaping up in T20 cricket, the key is to make sure whatever balls you get, look at the situation and try to maximise it. Being a keeper is far more helpful, even though I played that game as a fielder, if you are a keeper you can understand what kind of shots you can play on that wicket. That really helps you with your decision making. (DRS calling) On the other day, I missed one. In the heat of things, I just ran for the ball and completely missed it. It actually cost us in that game. Those are important calls that you need to be aware of as a keeper. In many ways, I'm the third eye for Rohit Sharma as well making sure he gets his angle, gets his bowling changes right, give him the right options, throw him the right question and then I'm sure he has the ability to give the right answer. But I need to make sure I'm watching all the right things possible.

The Indian team has hit the ground running with R Ashwin being the first to roll his arms over. Deepak Chahar is stretching and the crowd is on its feet with Virat Kohli sprinting into the field. Bhuvneshwar Kumar is cranking up it up on the other side of the wicket. Bumrah and Harshal are making their run-ups and it’s almost full house in Uppal. The team environment is relaxed with almost all players out in the field. Virat Kohli is displaying his football skills along with Chahal and Pant.

The sun is beating down and it’s hot at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium. The pitch looks bone dry and not a hint of grass on the surface. It might be a high scoring thriller and India has arrived in the stadium. The crowd is slowly trickling in and the security at the stadium is foolproof.