🏏Australia tour of India: 1st ODI at Mohali on 22/09/2023 D/N🏏 - Page 2

Australia, India try to balance preparation and rest as World Cup looms

The visitors have key players, including Pat Cummins and Steven Smith, back from injury as they take on the Asia Cup champions

Audition time for Ashwin and Washington, much to prove for Iyer and Suryakumar

Let's see who is going to get the job at the end of ODI series between Australia and India.

1 Pakistan 27 3102 115

2 India 41 4701 115

3 Australia 28 3166 113

4 South Africa 24 2551 106

5 England 28 2942 105

6 New Zealand 31 3110 100

7 Bangladesh 33 3107 94

8 Sri Lanka 38 3512 92

9 Afghanistan 21 1687 80

14 Netherlands28 1044 37

Australia, Bangladesh, England, New Zealand and India still have a chance to improve before going into ODI World Cup 2023.

Cheers..

BATTERS TO WATCH(recent stats)

Shubman Gill

IND

10 M • 465 Runs • 58.13 Avg • 87.9 SR

Ishan Kishan

IND

9 M • 327 Runs • 54.5 Avg • 96.17 SR

MR Marsh

AUS

10 M • 397 Runs • 44.11 Avg • 120.3 SR

M Labuschagne

AUS

10 M • 392 Runs • 56 Avg • 93.55 SR

BOWLERS TO WATCH(recent stats)

SN Thakur

IND

7 M • 13 Wkts • 5.63 Econ • 16.38 SR

Mohammed Siraj

IND

6 M • 12 Wkts • 4.77 Econ • 16.66 SR

A Zampa

AUS

9 M • 20 Wkts • 6.03 Econ • 21.75 SR

MA Starc

AUS

4 M • 12 Wkts • 6.03 Econ • 17.91 SR

HEAD TO HEAD - LAST 5 MATCHES

Australia won by 21 runs

22-Mar-2023

Australia won by 10 wickets (with 234 balls remaining)

19-Mar-2023

India won by 5 wickets (with 61 balls remaining)

17-Mar-2023

India won by 13 runs

02-Dec-2020

Australia won by 51 runs

29-Nov-2020

Thanks for the tag. Hope Ashwin gets early wickets.

Happy for him that he's playing ODI.

India have won the toss and will bowl first.

Pat Cummings | Australia Captain: Good to be back, it's been a while since I’ve been back here. Mitchell Starc and Glenn Maxwell are not quite ready. Would’ve bowled first as well but don’t really mind. It’s nice and sunny out here. Warner and Marsh will open the batting. Smith, Marnus and Inglis to follow.

KL Rahul | India Captain: We’ll bowl first. Historically a good chasing ground, that’s about it. There are a few boxes that we need to tick and the boxes that we’ve ticked we need to keep doing it better. One more challenge, best team in the world so good to play against them. They are a very competitive team so we’ve enjoyed playing against them. It's always a great challenge.

India (Playing XI): Shubman Gill, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul(w/c), Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami

Australia (Playing XI): David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Steven Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Cameron Green, Josh Inglis(w), Marcus Stoinis, Matthew Short, Pat Cummins(c), Sean Abbott, Adam Zampa

Australia have named Matt Short to make his ODI debut having only been added to the squad last week after Travis Head's injury. He made his T20I debut in South Africa. He will bat down the order though. Alex Carey has been rested and Josh Inglis will keep.