India elected to bowl against Australia.
In the first match of the Twenty20 International Series in Visakhapatnam, India captain Suryakumar Yadav won the toss and chose to bowl against Australia.
Both teams must muster up their best game for the five-match series, just four days after competing in the World Cup final.
Australia made many adjustments in an attempt to jolt a potentially sluggish team that was attempting to get out of its party mood.
There was a lot of curiosity about whether Travis Head, who won the player of the match after reaching 100, would actually play after his extravagant celebration was hilariously documented on social media.
However, he was predictably left out of the starting lineup, along with fellow World Cup winners Glenn Maxwell and Adam Zampa. Josh Inglis will bat as a specialist batter at No. 3, while Steven Smith, who played brilliantly at the top of the Sydney Sixers’ batting order in the previous season’s BBL, will open.
With Suryakumar being the only player carrying over from the final, India’s team is nearly entirely different from the one that played in the World Cup. In lieu of Hardik Pandya, the injured T20 captain, he will captain India for the first time.
Axar Patel, a left-arm spinner, will return, and Ishan Kishan will take up the gloves.
Although the series appears crammed into cricket’s packed schedule, for both countries it serves as an official kickoff to their preparations for the T20 World Cup in the USA and the Caribbean next year.
In humid circumstances, the surface is anticipated to be firm and favorable for batting.
Ruturaj Gaikwad, Suryakumar Yadav (capt), and Yashasvi Jaiswal are the Indian players. Fourth, Ishan Kishan (wk). 5 Varma Tilak, 6 Rinku Singh, 7 Prasidh Krishna, 8 Axar Patel, 9 Arshdeep Singh, 10 Mukesh Kumar, and 11 Ravi Bishnoi
Australia: Josh Inglis, Matthew Short, Steven Smith, and Matthew Smith 4 Marcus Stoinis, 5 Aaron Hardie 6 Tim David 7 (capt, wk) Matthew Wade 8 Sean Abbott Nathan Ellis, 9, 10 Tanveer Sangha, 11 Jason Behrendorff
