Toss India chose to bowl v Australia
India’s captain Virat Kohli won the toss and sent Australia in to bat in the second Twenty20 at the MCG. India must win the match to stay in the series.
The hosts made one change to the team that won narrowly in Brisbane on Wednesday, with Billy Stanlake pulling out due to an ankle injury in the team warm-ups and replaced by Nathan Coulter-Nile.
India were unchanged, persisting with the two most expensive bowlers from the Gabba: spinner Krunal Pandya and fast bowler Khaleel Ahmed.
Heavy rain and high winds lashed Melbourne for most of Friday, leaving plenty of surface moisture on the MCG but not delaying the originally scheduled 6.20pm toss.
India 1 Rohit Sharma, 2 Shikhar Dhawan, 3 Virat Kohli (capt), 4 KL Rahul, 5 Rishabh Pant (wk), 6 Dinesh Karthik, 7 Krunal Pandya, 8 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 9 Kuldeep Yadav, 10 Jasprit Bumrah, 11 Khaleel Ahmed
Australia 1 Aaron Finch (capt), 2 D’Arcy Short, 3 Chris Lynn, 4 Glenn Maxwell, 5 Marcus Stoinis, 6 Ben McDermott, 7 Alex Carey (wk), 8 Andrew Tye, 9 Adam Zampa, 10 Jason Behrendorff, 11 Billy Stanlake