This is the last international match that Indian team plays before the World Cup.
Now, this match marks the end of international assignments for Team India and now they will directly play in the World Cup 2019. The Indian players meanwhile will play in the upcoming IPL 2019 from March 23. It remains to be seen whether the experiments and permutations and combinations about the perfect playing XI worked out or not. The no.4 spot in the team is still up for grabs and this match might see another change to that spot.
Australia still has one more series of 5 ODIs to play against Pakistan in UAE and hence, this match has a lot of value for them to find a winning combination as they did in Mohali. Ashton Turner turned the fortunes of the Australian team around and with Khawaja and Handscomb getting some runs consistently, things are looking good for the five-time World Champions.
Toss:
Australia have won the toss and have opted to bat
Playing XIs:
Australia : Aaron Finch(c), Usman Khawaja, Peter Handscomb, Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Ashton Turner, Alex Carey(w), Jhye Richardson, Pat Cummins, Adam Zampa, Nathan Lyon
India : Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli(c), Rishabh Pant(w), Kedar Jadhav, Vijay Shankar, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah