India will kickstart their journey in International cricket after a long gap of 9 months. The cricket action was cut short by the rising coronavirus cases that took the world by storm. After the conclusion of IPL, Indian team traveled to Australia where they will ply their trade in a full fledged cricket series.
A total of 30 players across all three formats of the game travelled together and served a mandatory quarantine period of 14 days in Sydney.
Both the teams will square off in three match ODI series and as much matches in the 20 overs format. After the conclusion of white ball cricket, both the teams will take on each other in a four match test series with the eye on numero uno position in ICC World Test Championship. Its worth mentioning that Australia climbed to the number one spot in the latest ICC World Test Championship points table and India slipped to second place.
Virat Kohli will be unavailable after the conclusion of first test as he will be on a leave, due to the birth of his first child with wife Anushka Sharma. His deputy Ajinkya Rahane is expected to lead the side in rest of the three test matches.
India vs Australia schedule
ODI Schedule
1st ODI: SCG, Sydney | November 27 | 9:10 AM IST
2nd ODI: SCG, Sydney | November 29 | 9:10 AM IST
3rd ODI: Manuka Oval | Canberra, December 2 | 9:10 AM IST
T20I Schedule
1st T20I: Manuka Oval | Canberra, December 4 | 1:40 PM IST
2nd T20I: SCG, Sydney | December 6 | 1:40 PM IST
3rd T20I: SCG, Sydney | December 8 | 1:40 PM IST
Test Schedule
1st Test: Adelaide Oval, Adelaide | December 17 – December 21 | 9:30 AM IST
2nd Test: MCG, Melbourne | December 26 – December 30 | 9:30 AM IST
3rd Test: SCG, Sydney | January 7 – January 11 | 9:30 AM IST
4th Test: The Gabba, Brisbane | January 15 – Januray 19 | 9:30 AM IST
India vs Australia squads
ODI squads
India: Virat Kohli (Captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Shubman Gill, KL Rahul (vice-captain & wicket-keeper), Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Mayank Agarwal, Ravindra Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Shami, Navdeep Saini, Shardul Thakur, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper).
Australia: Aaron Finch (Captain), Sean Abbott, Ashton Agar, Alex Carey, Pat Cummins, Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Moises Henriques, Marnus Labuschagne, Glenn Maxwell, Daniel Sams, Kane Richardson, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Marcus Stoinis, Matthew Wade (wicketkeeper), David Warner, Adam Zampa.
T20 squads
India: Virat Kohli (Captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Mayank Agarwal, KL Rahul (vice-captain and wicketkeeper), Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Sanju Samson (wicket-keeper), Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, T Natarajan.
Australia: Aaron Finch (Captain), Sean Abbott, Ashton Agar, Alex Carey, Pat Cummins, Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Moises Henriques, Marnus Labuschagne, Glenn Maxwell, Daniel Sams, Kane Richardson, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Marcus Stoinis, Matthew Wade (wicketkeeper), David Warner, Adam Zampa.
Test squads
India: Virat Kohli (Captain), Rohit Sharma, Mayank Agarwal, Prithvi Shaw, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane (vice-captain), Hanuma Vihari, Shubman Gill, Wriddhiman Saha (wicket-keeper), Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Shami, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, R. Ashwin, Mohd. Siraj.
Australia: Tim Paine (Captain, wicketkeeper), Sean Abbott, Joe Burns, Pat Cummins, Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Michael Neser, James Pattinson, Will Pucovski, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Swepson, Matthew Wade, David Warner.
