Key events
Radar not looking too clever but Mitch Marsh and his men take the field.
We’ll be underway shortly weather permitting… in the meantime and aptly enough given his surname – there’s just enough time to dig into this piece with Jake Weatherald.
Teams: Australia are unchanged, for India – Rinku Singh comes in for Varma.
India: 1 Abhishek Sharma, 2 Shubman Gill, 3 Suryakumar Yadav (c), 4 Rinku Singh, 5 Axar Patel, 6 Shivam Dube, 7 Jitesh Sharma (wk), 8 Washington Sundar, 9 Arshdeep Singh, 10 Varun Chakravarthy, 11 Jasprit Bumrah
Australia: 1 Matt Short, 2 Mitchell Marsh (c), 3 Josh Inglis (wk), 4 Tim David, 5 Josh Philippe, 6 Marcus Stoinis, 7 Glenn Maxwell, 8 Ben Dwarshuis, 9 Xavier Bartlett, 10 Nathan Ellis, 11 Adam Zampa
Australia win the toss and choose to bowl first
“Looks a good surface, great to come in on this great ground.” says Aussie Skipper Mitchell Marsh. “It’s not exactly the same as the final of a tournament but there’s lots to play for, we can level the series and its a last chance for us tonight.”
Preamble
James Wallace
Hello and welcome to the fifth and final T20I between Australia and India from Brisbane’s Gabba. The home side are looking to draw the series after being befuddled and bamboozled by India’s spin attack in the previous couple of matches at Hobart and Carrara.
The Gabba pitch might not be quite as conducive to the twirlers but the more pressing issues is the fact there are storms forecast in the area, fingers crossed we can get a full game in. It is fine at the moment and the two captains are headed out for the toss…
Barring any wet stuff we should be underway in about fifteen minutes – 6.15pm local/7.15pm AEDT/1.45pm IDT and 8.15am here in dear old England.
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