India vs Australia, Live Score: Pitch report

“Lush green outfield. 66m and 67m square boundaries, 79m hit down the ground,” says Sanjay Manjrekar before he hands it over to Brad Haddin. “Beautiful covering of grass and it’s very even. It’s (surface) a lot harder than the previous games. The average first innings score is 311. I think there will be a lot more skid than spin,” opines Brad Haddin.

India vs Australia, Live Score: Australia’s Playing XI

Australia (Playing XI): Mitchell Marsh, David Warner, Steven Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Alex Carey(w), Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green, Pat Cummins(c), Mitchell Starc, Tanveer Sangha, Josh Hazlewood

India vs Australia, Live Score: India’s Playing XI

India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul(w), Suryakumar Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna

India vs Australia, Live Score: Here’s what Rohit Sharma said at the toss

Conditions are much better here, looks like there’s good weather. Decent temperature as well, we’re just looking forward to this game. The breaks are more important from a mental perspective than a physical one. Very happy with how we played, almost everything we wanted to do we got it done. Gives us a chance for us to see what we want to do. Looks a bit dry, it’s going to play slightly better under lights, we wanted to chase anyway. Let’s see if we can make use of the two new balls. Myself, Virat, Kuldeep are all back. From the last game, Ashwin is also missing, Washington is in. Ishan is not well, he’s got viral fever so he misses out.

India vs Australia, Live Score: Here’s what Pat Cummins said at the toss

We’re going to have a bat. Looks like a good wicket, not sure how it’ll change in the 100 overs. Good to get game time for everyone, don’t want to go into a world cup cold. Results haven’t gone our way but good day to change that. Different conditions here but we’ve played a lot over here so no surprises. We’ve made five changes, Starc and Maxwell are back. Tanveer Sangha is making his debut.

India vs Australia, Live Score: Toss

Australia skipper Pat Cummins wins the toss, opts to bat against India in the 3rd ODI match in Rajkot. 

India vs Australia, Live Score: India’s Predicted XI

Here’s what we think could be India’s Playing XI will look like against Australia in the third ODI. Read here.

India vs Australia, Live Score: India stars expected to return

India’s batting mainstays Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are expected to return and so are the in-form Kuldeep Yadav and Hardik Pandya from a brief resting period during which KL Rahul has led admirably.

India vs Australia, Live Score: Only 13 players available for India

Rohit Sharma said on Tuesday that he has just 13 players to choose from for the final ODI. Shubman Gill was not available for selection after the squad was hit by a viral sickness while fast bowlers Shardul Thakur and Mohammed Shami along with all-rounder Hardik Pandya opted to go back home. 

India vs Australia, Live Score: Historic clean sweep on the cards

Never before in the history have India whitewashed Australia in the ODI format. In fact, neither of them have achieved such a result, home or away, irrespective of the number of matches played in a series. Given how perfectly everything has panned out for the World Cup hosts in the lead up to the mega tournament, it would only be fitting that India finish with a deserving 3-0 score-line.

India vs Australia, Live Score: India aim for clean sweep

Skipper Rohit Sharma would fancy a perfect culmination to the Indian team’s World Cup preparations as hosts eye a rare clean sweep of Australia in the third and final ODI. 

India vs Australia, Live Score: Hello

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the 3rd and final ODI match between India and Australia, straight from Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot. Stay tuned for all the live updates.