Australia v India, second ODI: Australia send India in to bat in Adelaide

Hello and welcome to our coverage of the second ODI between Australia and India at a sold-out Adelaide Oval.

The opening game on Sunday in Perth was a damp affair, with Australia winning easily after Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc made quick work of the touring team’s top order.

With Pat Cummins still yet to start bowling after his back injury, all eyes will be on Hazlewood and Starc as the two clear leaders of the attack in this series and the Ashes beyond.

Another player with an intriguing story today is Matt Renshaw, who was favoured this week by several sound judges as the best option to open the batting opposite Usman Khawaja against England. He will be in the middle order at Adelaide Oval, and has come along way in mentality since he debuted in Tests aged 20.

Mitch Owen and Matt Renshaw of Australia on their ODI debuts in Perth.Credit: Getty Images

“A lot of the time you try and force a few things, you see someone else gets runs, and you go: ‘I need to score runs because then I’m going to be picked for Australia, then I’m going to become a good person’,” he said.

“That whole mentality when you’re young is that’s how you view yourself as a person.

“Whereas now I go home and I’ve got to change nappies, I’ve got to put kids to bed, I’ve got to try and calm screaming babies down.

“When you’re young, you go home, you have got nothing to do, so you’re just sitting on your phone scrolling.

“I hide. I don’t have the Cricket Australia app, I don’t try and look at any news, I hide all the cricket stuff on my Instagram so I don’t see it.”

The toss goes up and Marsh wins his second in a row - Australia send India in to bat.

There are changes for the Australian side, hometown hero Alex Carey is into the team in place of Josh Philippe, while swing bowler Xavier Bartlett is recalled in place of Nathan Ellis, who is rested.

Marsh omitted to mention a third change - Adam Zampa is back in the team for Matt Kuhnemann.

India have named the same XI that was beaten in Perth.

Virat Kohli signs autographs in Adelaide.Credit: Getty Images

Teams

Australia: Mitchell Marsh (capt), Travis Head, Matthew Short, Matthew Renshaw, Alex Carey, Cooper Connolly, Mitchell Owen, Xavier Bartlett, Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood

India: Shubman Gill (capt), Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul, Washington Sundar, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammed Siraj

Hello and welcome to our coverage of the second ODI between Australia and India at a sold-out Adelaide Oval.

The opening game on Sunday in Perth was a damp affair, with Australia winning easily after Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc made quick work of the touring team’s top order.

With Pat Cummins still yet to start bowling after his back injury, all eyes will be on Hazlewood and Starc as the two clear leaders of the attack in this series and the Ashes beyond.

Another player with an intriguing story today is Matt Renshaw, who was favoured this week by several sound judges as the best option to open the batting opposite Usman Khawaja against England. He will be in the middle order at Adelaide Oval, and has come along way in mentality since he debuted in Tests aged 20.

Mitch Owen and Matt Renshaw of Australia on their ODI debuts in Perth.Credit: Getty Images

“A lot of the time you try and force a few things, you see someone else gets runs, and you go: ‘I need to score runs because then I’m going to be picked for Australia, then I’m going to become a good person’,” he said.

“That whole mentality when you’re young is that’s how you view yourself as a person.

“Whereas now I go home and I’ve got to change nappies, I’ve got to put kids to bed, I’ve got to try and calm screaming babies down.

“When you’re young, you go home, you have got nothing to do, so you’re just sitting on your phone scrolling.

“I hide. I don’t have the Cricket Australia app, I don’t try and look at any news, I hide all the cricket stuff on my Instagram so I don’t see it.”