08.59 am: Both sides will hope to improve their fielding today. They were abysmal in the last game – misfields, dropped catches... the mat...
08.59 am: Both sides will hope to improve their fielding today. They were abysmal in the last game – misfields, dropped catches... the match had it all.
08.55 am: At the toss, Kohli said: “We were a bit rusty in the first game, no excuses. We have played enough 50 over cricket to pull up professionally. After the 30 over mark, the bodies started to stiffen up a little bit as we have not played a long game for a while. The guys have understood what we need to do right today.”
08.51 am: Stoinis is out today for Australia, a little bit of niggle in his side. They didn’t want to push him too hard. Moises Henriques replaces him.
08.49 am: No changes in the Indian XI. There was a suggestion that Kohli might look at Kuldeep, as the left-arm wrist-spinner spent a fair bit of time looking at the wicket but this is India’s best XI. The Indian skipper would have loved to have Rohit Sharma for a must-win game like this but then India aren’t Mumbai Indians.
08.45 am: The squads
Australia XI: Aaron Finch (c), David Warner, Steve Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Moises Henriques, Glenn Maxwell, Alex Carey (wk), Pat Cummins, Mitch Starc, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood
India XI: Shikhar Dhawan, Mayank Agarwal,...
