Plenty of changes for both sides as Australia bat first in a bid to avoid clean sweep

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Toss Australia chose to bat vs India

Australia welcomed back big guns Glenn Maxwell and Mitchell Starc into the playing XI and elected to bat in the third and final ODI in Rajkot as they look to avoid a clean sweep against India.
Also returning to the side was captain Pat Cummins, who sat out of the second ODI, while Tanveer Sangha and Mitchell Marsh also made their way in. Australia made five changes to the side that went down by 99 runs (DLS method) in the second ODI with Matt Short, Josh Inglis, Sean Abbott, Adam Zampa and Spencer Johnson out.

Also returning to the side were Jasprit Bumrah, who missed the second ODI, and Mohammed Siraj to spearhead the fast bowling unit. Washington Sundar also made his way in. In all, India made six changes with Shubman Gill, Shardul Thakur, Ishan Kishan, R Ashwin, Mohammed Shami and Ruturaj Gaikwad missing out. Rohit clarified that Kishan was missing out due to illness.

Rohit expected the Rajkot surface to play better under lights and wanted to field. India led the three-match series 2-0 after convincing wins in the first two ODIs.

India: 1 Rohit Sharma (capt), 2 Virat Kohli, 3 Shreyas Iyer, 4 KL Rahul (wk), 5 Suryakumar Yadav, 6 Ravindra Jadeja, 7 Washington Sundar, 8 Kuldeep Yadav, 9 Jasprit Bumrah, 10 Mohammed Siraj, 11 Prasidh Krishna

Australia: 1 Mitchell Marsh, 2 David Warner, 3 Steven Smith, 4 Marnus Labuschagne, 5 Alex Carey (wk), 6 Glenn Maxwell, 7 Cameron Green, 8 Pat Cummins (capt), 8 Mitchell Starc, 10 Tanveer Sangha, 11 Josh Hazlewood

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