🏏India tour of Australia, 2025: Australia vs India, 1st ODI Perth🏏 - Page 3

Gill: We would have bowled first as well. It's all about getting mentally ready. We are in a good mental place. The practice sessions help. We have a great combination. Nitish Reddy makes his debut, we are going with three fast bowlers and three all-rounders.

Marsh: We're going to bowl first. It looks like a pretty good wicket, hopefully it's hard and fast. There's a little bit of moisture around, so hopefully we can make the most of that today. It's always a huge honour to captain the country, but to do it in front of a somewhat home crowd, it's always exciting. (Preparation) It's been great. The guys got in on Wednesday. We've had three great days of training. It's always a big build-up, Australia versus India and what's going to be a huge summer for Australian cricket. So, hopefully we can get off to a good start. (Morale) It's great. We've got some good young players, lots of power, so it's going to be hopefully exciting and entertaining. Seven batters, one keeper and four bowlers .. six batters? Anyway, I'm not good at maths.

No worries, don't learn maths when it comes to DLS, for Marsh @ Bold:

"Cloud cover, Starc the left hand seam, and Rohit coming in as the opener. Interesting and exciting first few overs."

At the pitch report, Mark Waugh suggested there should be pace and bounce. This might get some traffic today.

Some unimportant stat: 16th consecutive toss lost in ODIs by India; the last toss they won was in the semifinals of CWC 2023 against NZ at Wankhede

Celin: "I am going name my next as either Mitchell, Josh or Matt. 3 Mitchell, 3 Matt and 2 Josh in today's Australian side."

Zain: "is this a record for how many Mitch's and Matt's you have in a playing XI?!"

Scorers are going to have a hard time while updating match scores.

The teams march out for the national anthems. Big roar from the crowd.

Most appearances for India in Internationals
664 Sachin Tendulkar
551 Virat Kohli *
535 MS Dhoni
504 Rahul Dravid
500 Rohit Sharma *

All eyes on the Indian experienced batting line-up to find out how they cope with Perth's pace and bounce.

The teams march out for the national anthems. Big roar from the crowd. India's Jana Gana Mana first, followed by the home team's Advance Australia Fair. The pre-match ritual is completed.

Most appearances for India in Internationals
664 Sachin Tendulkar
551 Virat Kohli *
535 MS Dhoni
504 Rahul Dravid
500 Rohit Sharma *

-- 16th consecutive toss lost in ODIs by India; the last toss they won was in the semifinals of CWC 2023 against NZ at Wankhede

Teams:

India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill(c), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul(w), Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harshit Rana, Mohammed Siraj, Arshdeep Singh

Australia (Playing XI): Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh(c), Matthew Short, Josh Philippe(w), Matt Renshaw, Cooper Connolly, Mitchell Owen, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Ellis, Matthew Kuhnemann, Josh Hazlewood

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I am excited for this match

0.1

Starc to Rohit Sharma, 1 run

India and Rohit opened their account.

Gill opened his account too! Keep it up boys! We are with you.

India

(2.2/50 ov) 6/0

Australia

Australia chose to field.

Current RR: 2.57