Cricket Australia (CA) has recently named their 18 man squad against India for the white ball cricket format. There have been few astonishing inclusions in the side as Veteran allrounder Moises Henriques makes his name into the squad inplace of injured Mitch Marsh. Moises Henriques returns to the Australian squad after a gap of three years. Henriques last played an ODI for Australia in 2017 against England while his last T20I was against India in Guwahati.
Another surprising entry has been 21 year old Cameron Green, who is being hailed as one of the stars in the Australian domestic circuit after his brilliant performances in the Sheffield Shield tournament. He has hit two centuries of 158 and 197 in the early rounds of the tournament against Tasmania and New South Wales respectively. Green has slowly returned to bowling after suffering a string of back injuries in the previous season. Apart from Green and Henriques, the squad also see the inclusion of Daniel Sams who has been picked by Delhi Capitals in IPL 2020 and who performed admirably in the previous edition of the Big Bash League. But surprisingly ,there is still no Jhye Richardson, who has dismissed Virat Kohli in all three matches in the previous series.
India will arrive in Australia immediately after the end of the IPL 2020 with a huge 32-man contingent. The series will start in Sydney and Canberra with the Odis and T20Is in November and December. The series will begin in New South Wales as the coronavirus restrictions and quarantine rules are slightly off in New South Wales as compared to the rest of the country.
Cricket Australia have announced that the Test series squad will be picked after the end of the limited overs series.
After the end of the three ODIs and three T20Is, India will play four Tests beginning with the Pink Ball Test in Adelaide, which will be the first time India and Australia play the Day Night Test. The Boxing Day Test will be held in Melbourne after the four-month lockdown ended. There will be a cap of just 25000 spectators for the iconic Test match.
Australia ODI and T20I squad vs India
Aaron Finch (c), Sean Abbott, Ashton Agar, Alex Carey, Pat Cummins (vc), Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Moises Henriques, Marnus Labuschagne, Glenn Maxwell, Daniel Sams, Kane Richardson, Steven Smith, Mitchell Starc, Marcus Stoinis, Matthew Wade, David Warner, Adam Zampa