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India captain Virat Kohli on Friday opted out of the day-night warm-up sport towards Australia A, deciding to offer his physique some relaxation after having performed in all of the previous limited-overs matches. India received the toss and elected to bat within the three-day sport that began in Sydney on Friday. With Kohli sitting out of the pink-ball tour match, the seasoned Ajinkya Rahane is main the staff on the Sydney Cricket Ground.
The sport is extra of a simulation forward of the sequence opening day-night Test, which might be performed with a pink ball from December 17 to 21 at Adelaide.
The touring Indians do not have sufficient expertise of dealing with the pink ball in top-flight cricket, having performed just one such Test towards Bangladesh final 12 months.
India although received that sport, held on the Eden Gardens, by a good-looking margin of innings and 46 runs.
Australia have performed in fairly just a few pink-ball day-nighters over the previous couple of years.
After Adelaide, the matches might be performed at Melbourne (from December 26 to 30), Sydney and Brisbane in January.
Four members of Australia’s Test squad are taking part in within the tour sport – opening batsman Joe Burns, all-rounder Cameron Green, tempo bowler Sean Abbott and leg-spinner Mitchell Swepson.
India are coming into the sport after having received the T20I sequence 2-1 following a loss within the ODI rubber by an analogous margin.
Playing XI:
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India: Ajinkya Rahane (capt), Prithvi Shaw, Mayank Agarwal, Shubman Gill, Hanuma Vihari, Rishabh Pant, Wriddhiman Saha, Navdeep Saini, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Jasprit Bumrah.
Australia A: Joe Burns, Marcus Harris, Nic Maddinson, Ben McDermott, Cameron Green, Jack Wildermuth, Alex Carey (Capt), Sean Abbott, Will Sutherland, Mitch Swepson, Harry Conway.
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