🏏Australia vs. India: 3rd ODI at Rajkot on 27/09/2023 D/N🏏 - Page 4

Australia have won the toss and have opted to bat

Pat Cummins | Australia captain: We’re going to have a bat. Looks like a good wicket, not sure how it’ll change in the 100 overs. GOod to get game time for everyone, don’t want to go into a world cup cold. Results haven’t gone our way but good day to change that. Different conditions here but we’ve played a lot over here so no surprises. We’ve made five changes, Starc and Maxwell are back. Tanveer Sangha is making his debut.

Rohit Sharma | India captain: Conditions are much better here, looks like there’s good weather. Decent temperature as well, we’re just looking forward to this game. The breaks are more important from a mental perspective than a physical one. Very happy with how we played, almost everything we wanted to do we got it done. Gives us a chance for us to see what we want to do. Looks a bit dry, it’s going to play slightly better under lights, we wanted to chase anyway. Let's see if we can make use of the two new balls. Myself, Virat, Kuldeep are all back. From the last game, Ashwin is also missing, Washington is in. Ishan is not well, he’s got viral fever so he misses out.

David Warner is all set to take first strike. He has Mitchell Marsh at the other end. Jasprit Bumrah has the new ball.

Pitch report: "Lush green outfield. 66m and 67m square boundaries, 79m hit down the ground," says Sanjay Manjrekar before he hands it over to Brad Haddin. "Beautiful covering of grass and it's very even. It's (surface) a lot harder than the previous games. The average first innings score is 311. I think there will be a lot more skid than spin," opines Brad Haddin.

Jasprit Bumrah has the new ball. He is over the wicket to the left-hander. Two slips in place.

Teams:

India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul(w), Suryakumar Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna

Australia (Playing XI): Mitchell Marsh, David Warner, Steven Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Alex Carey(w), Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green, Pat Cummins(c), Mitchell Starc, Tanveer Sangha, Josh Hazlewood

So the big news coming through, in case you've missed it, is that Washington Sundar gets the nod ahead of Ravichandran Ashwin for today's game.

AUS has 5 all rounders

IND has 2 all rounders

Warner and Mitchell Marsh are at the crease. Warner is on strike. Bumrah will open the attack

Right, we're nearly set for live action. Warner and Marsh are taking guard while the Indians take up their fielding positions. Couple of slips in place...