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India vs Australia on October 7

India annihilated Australia in the five-match ODI series 4-1 winning most of the games rather comfortably and didn’t allow them to come back. While the Indian juggernaut in ODIs continued, the struggle of the Aussies in the limited overs format has just increased this year. The world champions are no more the number 1 ranked side and have been pushed to the corner by most of the teams this year. Men in Blue, on the other hand, have become unbeatable in the format as they seem to have covered all the bases. However, the skipper Steve Smith insisted that he would love to return with a cup which means he is eyeing the 3-match T20I series starting this Saturday. While the hosts have kept more or less the same squad which played the 50-overs format, the visitors have tinkered their combination by drafting in the T20 specialists.

·         Best economical pick – Nathan Coulter-Nile did absolutely no harm to his reputation in the ODI series. The tall pacer emerged as the leading wicket taker in the series with 10 wickets to his name.  He bowled with an averaged o 25.10 and had a very impressive economy rate of 5.12 with the ball.

·         Top captains & vice captains – Rohit Sharma capped off a good ODI series with a thundering ton to his name in the final ODI. Rohit hammered a match winning 125 off just 109 deliveries with 11 fours and 5 sixes to his name. Rohit aggregated 296 runs in the 5 matches in the series. He finished as the top scorer in the series and averaged 59.20 with the bat. In addition to his herculean ton, he notched up a couple fo fifties as well. Aaron Finch did not feature in all the matches in the series. He scored 124 on the day but was unfortunate to have ended on the losing side. In the next game at Bengaluru, he was again unlucky to have been dismissed in the 90s. He averaged 83.33 in the series – the highest by any batsman. Finch amasses 250 runs in 3 matches.

·         Smart pick – Jasprit Bumrah, the lead pace bowler for India in recent times, is currently ranked no. 2 with only 5 points behind the no. 1 ranked Imad Wasim. A strong showing the three T20Is against the team from down under will see Bumrah topple Imad and reach the pinnacle of the T20I bowlers’ rankings.

·         Cautious Pick – Everyone knows the potential of this power hitter, and everyone also knows that he isn’t using it to the fullest. But he failed miserably in the ODI series, even dropped from team for last 2 games. Glenn Maxwell scored just 58 runs from the 3 games he played in the ODI series.

My XI –Rohit Sharma (Captain), Aaron Finch (Vice-Captain), Kedar Jadhav, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kane Richardson, Moises Henriques, Tim Paine, Virat Kohli, Steven Smith