Australia V India: Second Men’s Twenty20 International – Live

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India XI

Shubman Gill, Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav (capt), Sanju Samson (wk), Harshit Rana, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah.

India are unchanged for nan abandoned T20 bid opener. Captain Suryakumar suggests India would person picked up wherever they near disconnected connected Wednesday and batted if he won nan toss.

“That’s nan marque of cricket we want to play, arsenic soon arsenic we spell in. It starts pinch Abhishek, he has been mounting nan reside on pinch Gill. He knows really to people runs and pinch him you person to tally difficult betwixt nan wickets arsenic well.”

Australia XI

Mitchell Marsh (capt), Travis Head, Josh Inglis (wk), Tim David, Mitchell Owen, Marcus Stoinis, Matt Short, Xavier Bartlett, Nathan Ellis, Matthew Kuhnemann, Josh Hazlewood.

One alteration for Australia pinch Matt Short replacing Josh Philippe.

Toss

Australia skipper Mitch Marsh wins nan toss yet again. And it is nary astonishment erstwhile he elects to vessel first. Suryakumar Yadav called incorrectly but he is comfortable pinch batting first, conscionable arsenic India did successful Canberra for 9.4 overs connected Wednesday.

Preamble

Hello and invited to unrecorded sum of nan 2nd T20 world betwixt Australia and India astatine a sold retired MCG. The first T20I of nan five-match bid was washed retired successful Canberra aft only 9.4 overs connected Wednesday. But nan forecast looks overmuch much promising this evening successful Melbourne, pinch a spot of unreality astir to please nan gait bowlers.

Mitch Marsh won nan flip successful Canberra and – conscionable arsenic he had done during nan ODI bid – was keen to section first. But India person a threatening apical bid that mightiness make nan Australia skipper deliberation doubly if nan coin falls his measurement again. Abhishek Sharma looks vulnerable from nan first shot and India skipper Suryakumar Yadav showed signs of returning to shape successful nan bid opener.

First shot will beryllium astatine 7.15pm AEDT successful Melbourne / 1.45pm IDT. The flip and squad news will beryllium coming up shortly. Meanwhile, fto america cognize your thoughts and predictions - shoot maine an email aliases find maine @martinpegan connected Bluesky aliases X. Let’s get into it!