By Admin 
India vs Australia 3rd ODI is being played today at Sydney Cricket Ground. Once again Team India lost the toss, Mitchell Marsh won the toss and decided to bat first. This is the 18th consecutive time that India has lost the toss in ODI. Australia is maintaining an unassailable 2-0 lead in the 3-match series. India has made 2 changes in the playing 11 in the third ODI.
Prasidh’s chance with Kuldeep Yadav
Kuldeep Yadav has got a place in the playing 11 in the third ODI. There were 2 changes in this match, Prasidh Krishna is also playing the match along with Kuldeep. Fast bowler Arshdeep Singh and all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy have been dropped.
Playing XI: Shubman Gill (captain), Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul (wicket keeper), Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Prasidh Krishna, Mohammed Siraj.
One change in Australia’s playing 11
Mitchell Marsh (captain), Travis Head, Matthew Short, Matthew Renshaw, Alex Carey (wicket-keeper), Cooper Connolly, Mitchell Owen, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood.
Shubhman Gill’s name should not get this stigma!
Australia has already won the series by winning the first and second ODIs played in Perth and Adelaide. Now India is fighting the battle of respect today, if Team India loses this match too, then it will be the first time in history when Australia will clean sweep India in an ODI series in its own country.
RO-KO record in Sydney
Virat Kohli has scored a half-century (89) in only one of the 7 ODI matches played at the Sydney Cricket Ground. He has scored 146 runs in 7 matches at an average of 24.33. What is more worrying than this figure is that Kohli has been out for zero in the last two matches. This has happened for the first time in history.
Rohit Sharma has played 5 ODI matches at Sydney Cricket Ground, his record has been better than Virat Kohli. In Sydney, Rohit has scored 333 runs at an average of 66.60, which includes 1 century and 2 half-century innings.