India handed Ravindra Jadeja and Akash Deep come into India after winning toss and decided to bowl in the first overcast rain day against Australia in their third Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test at Brisbane's Gabba on Saturday. Five match series between Australia and India has leveled 1-1 now.
This is the first time in this series that India have decided to bowl first after winning the toss. Both Jadeja and Akash will be playing their first game of the series after replacing Ravichandran Ashwin and Harshit Rana in the playing eleven.
"A little bit overcast. A bit of grass and looks soft, so want to make the best of conditions. We want to try to make the best use of conditions and see what we can do with the ball upfront. Lot of cricket to be played, both teams have played good cricket in the last two games. Big game for us here, we will try and do what is expected out of us."
“We'll play good cricket, we understand we have to capture some moments, we didn't do that in the previous game which is why we lost. It's absolutely buzzing, the guys are looking forward to the match, we're looking forward to coming out here and playing,” said India skipper Rohit Sharma, who will continue to bat at number six.
Australia has made only one change: Josh Hazlewood is fit after missing the Adelaide Test due to side strain and he replaces Scott Boland in the playing eleven. "We would've bowled first too. Been a fantastic series so far. Really happy with last week, just about everyone got into the series, been a good lead-up. Preparations have been pretty good.". The early finish to the Test here meant it allowed the squad to move up as quickly as possible and to get settled said Australia Captain Pat Cummins.
India: Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant(wk), Rohit Sharma (c), Ravindra Jadeja, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep
Australia: Usman Khawaja, Nathan McSweeney, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey(wk), Pat Cummins(c), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon and Josh Hazlewood
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