Team India will be looking to seal the ongoing three-match series when they take on Australia in the second ODI on Sunday (March 19) at the Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam.
India are leading the series after winning the first game by 5 wickets at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. The bowlers did a fine job by bowling out Australia for 188 before India recovered from a poor start to chase down the modest total.
KL Rahul starred with the bat, scoring an unbeaten 75 while Ravindra Jadeja continued to torment the Aussies. The left-arm spinners picked up 2 wickets before playing a crucial knock of 45 not out to help India win the series-opener.
As far as Australia are concerned, they will definitely take a number of positives from the first ODI. At one stage, they were comfortably placed at 129 for 2 in the 20th over before the inexplicable collapse. With the ball too, they began well and had India reeling at 16 for 3 and then 83 for 5.
Talking about the team combinations, both the teams are looking set to make a few changes to their lineups. India are likely to welcome their skipper Rohit Sharma who missed the first ODI due to family reasons. Ishan Kishan is likely to make way for the skipper.
For Australia, Alex Carey and David Warner are set to return to the playing eleven. Carey missed the first ODI due to illness while Warner was sidelined with an elbow injury.
Toss report:
Australia have won the toss and elected to bowl first.
Playing XIs:
India:
Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, KL Rahul(w), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Mohammed Shami
Australia:
Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Steven Smith(c), Marnus Labuschagne, Alex Carey(w), Cameron Green, Marcus Stoinis, Sean Abbott, Nathan Ellis, Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa