India will face Australia Third match of three ODI series. This article provides details about the third match of the series, India’s Playing XI vs Australia.
India Playing XI vs Australia – 3rd ODI, India Tour of Australia 2025:
Opener: Shubman Gill (c), Rohit Sharma
India will be pushing themselves for a good performance in the third match of the ongoing ODI series against Australia.
Shubman Gill’s side will be happy with how their batting line-up has responded after losing a few wickets early in the previous match compared to their performance in the opener and will want to continue the good work.
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However, there are some concerns about the Men in Blue’s batting, and one of them is the contribution of the midfielders, who were unable to turn their good start into points.
The former ODI World Cup winners will have to start from scratch in the next match and will expect their opening pair of captain Shubman Gill and former captain Rohit Sharma to do the job.
In addition to batting as a pair, both batsmen also want to score runs individually and Rohit did just that with a crucial half-century in the last match.
Middle-order batsmen and all-rounders: Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul (wk), Washington Sundar
If we talk about the performance of India’s middle order in the previous match, it was about good bowling by the opponents and unnecessary shot selection, which will need to be corrected.
The mid-order, which has experienced batsmen like Virat Kohli, KL Rahul and Nitish Kumar Reddy, was unable to capitalize on the good start India got with the help of Rohit Sharma and Shreyas Iyer’s fifties.
Kohli scored his second consecutive duck of the series while KL Rahul received a good ball from Adam Zampa. The duo would like to make a big contribution with the bat and end the series.
Apart from Kohli and Rahul, all-rounders Axar Patel and Washington Sundar will be responsible for finishing the innings strongly.
Bowlers: Kuldeep Yadav, Prasidh Krishna, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammed Siraj
As far as the bowling is concerned, they first want their batsmen to post above-average totals on the board to give something to the bowling.
If the batsman can perform to the best of his ability, the bowling attack will display enough skill to limit the opponent’s free scoring.
However, simply getting runs on the board does not guarantee an easy passage to victory. Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Mohammed Siraj and others will have to pick wickets in the first 10 overs.
Spinners Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel and Washington Sundar will solve the problem and keep the Australian batsmen in check in the middle of the innings.