ind vs aus t20 live: INDIA vs AUSTRALIA Live Score – 1st T20I Cricket Match: Suryakumar Yadav to lead a young team against world champions, Ozs – The Economic Times

The first of five T20 matches will be played at the Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy Stadium, Visakhapatnam.

The Indian team will have to keep aside the defeat and pick themselves for what is to come. Though recent months have seen the international debuts of young guns like Yashaswi Jaiswal, Rinku Singh, Tilak Verma, and Jitesh Sharma, their first real Test match will be against a formidable Australian T20 side led by Matthew Wade, which includes World Cup champions like opener Travis Head, Glenn Maxwell, leg-spinner Adam Zampa, and former captain Steven Smith.

Having had 26 encounters in the twenty overs format, the Men in Blue hold a dominant position against the Aussies with 15 wins as against the latter’s 10. One match however, yielded no result.

India are entering this series with confidence having defeated Australia in three of the previous five meetings.

India will bank on the skipper himself, Suryakumar Yadav, who has been a prolific performer in the T20I format. He has scored 1841 runs at an average of 46.02 and a strike rate of 172.7. He also has three T20I centuries to his name.

The series also marks the return of Axar Patel, who was initially named in the World Cup squad but was later ruled out due to injury.

As for the Australians, they boast the star of the India vs Australia World Cup finale, Travis Head. A stunning 137 off 120 deliveries against the Men in Blue, Head rescued his side from danger and breaking a billion hearts as Australia clinched the World Cup crown for the sixth time.

T20I Squads:

India: Suryakumar Yadav (Captain), Ruturaj Gaikwad (Vice-captain), Ishan Kishan, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma (Wk), Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Shivam Dubey, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan, Mukesh Kumar.

Australia: Matthew Wade (c & wk), Steve Smith, Tim David, Travis Head, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Matthew Short, Aaron Hardie, Josh Inglis (wk), Jason Behrendorff, Nathan Ellis, Sean Abbott, Spencer Johnson, Adam Zampa and Tanveer Sangha.