India vs Australia 3rd T20 will be played today at Bellerive Oval Stadium. The match will start at 1:45 pm, the toss will take place at 1:15 pm. This match is like do or die for Suryakumar Yadav and team, because if Australia wins, then even after winning the remaining two matches of the series, Team India will only be able to draw the series.

Since the T20 World Cup 2024, India has played 5 T20 series and won all of them, to keep alive the hope of continuing this series, India will have to win today in Hobart at any cost. Talking about the weather, there is a possibility of rain in the match, but not so much that there is a danger of the match being canceled. In this context, winning the toss will be important, the team would like to chase the target here.

Bellerive Oval, Hobart Records, Pitch Report

The Indian cricket team is playing its first T20 match on this ground today, while the Australian team has played 5 T20 matches here. Australia has never lost a T20 on this ground, it has won all 5 matches.

Talking about the pitch, there is hope that there will be help for fast bowlers here also. Bouncers can be seen, due to this Arshdeep Singh can be included in the playing 11 today. Kuldeep Yadav can be left out in his place, because Axar Patel is in the team as a spin option.

Josh Hazlewood is not playing

There have been some changes in the Australian team since the third T20, which the host had announced before the start of the series. Josh Hazlewood, who wreaked havoc on the Indian batsmen in the second T20, is no longer a part of this series. Mahali Beardman has become a part of the host team from the third T20.

india squad

Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Shubhman Gill, Rinku Singh, Tilak Verma, Abhishek Sharma, Axar Patel, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Shivam Dubey, Washington Sundar, Jitesh Sharma (wicket keeper), Sanju Samson (wicket keeper), Arshdeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakraborty.

australia squad

Mitchell Marsh (captain), Sean Abbott, Xavier Bartlett, Mahali Beardman, Tim David, Nathan Ellis, Travis Head, Josh Inglis (wk), Matthew Kuhneman, Mitchell Owen, Josh Philippe (wk), Matthew Short, Marcus Stoinis, Adam Zampa.

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.