India captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and opted to field first against Australia in the third Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test at the Gabba in Brisbane starting Saturday, December 14. (Day 1 Live | Full Coverage | More Cricket News)
Sharma said that overcast conditions might help his bowlers. Aussie captain Pat Cummins too wanted to have a bowl first.
For India, R Ashwin and Harshit Rana made way for Akash Deep and Ravindra Jadeja while Australia made just one change of replacing Scott Boland with Josh Hazlewood.
Australia Playing XI: Usman Khawaja, Nathan McSweeney, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey(w), Pat Cummins(c), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood
India Playing XI: Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant(w), Rohit Sharma(c), Ravindra Jadeja, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep
The series is evenly poised going into the third Test with both teams having won a game each. India defeated Australia in the opening Test of the series by 295 runs but Australia bounced back hard to beat India by 10 wickets in the second Test.
Full Squads:
India Squad: Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant(w), Rohit Sharma(c), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Ravichandran Ashwin, Harshit Rana, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Dhruv Jurel, Washington Sundar, Devdutt Padikkal, Ravindra Jadeja, Sarfaraz Khan, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep
Australia Squad: Usman Khawaja, Nathan McSweeney, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey(w), Pat Cummins(c), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood, Beau Webster, Josh Inglis, Brendan Doggett, Sean Abbott
