4th T20I: Australia opt to bowl as India make four changes in playing eleven

PTI, Dec 1, 2023, 6:57 PM IST

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Raipur: Australia won the toss and elected to bowl against India in the fourth T20 International here on Friday, with both teams making wholesale changes in their respective playing XIs.

India predictably dropped Prasidh Krishna and brought back Mukesh Kumar while seasoned Deepak Chahar replaced Arshdeep Singh.

Shreyas Iyer, coming back as vice-captain, substituted Tilak Varma, while keeper Jitesh Sharma gets his first look-in after Asian Games in place of rested Ishan Kishan.

Australia also made five changes with three of their World Cup winning players going home. Chris Green, Ben McDermott, Ben Dwarshuis and Josh Phillippe are some of the changes.

Teams:

India: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav (c), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Deepak Chahar, Ravi Bishnoi, Avesh Khan, Mukesh Kumar.

Australia: Josh Phillippe, Travis Head, Ben McDermott, Aaron Hardie, Tim David, Matthew Short, Matthew Wade (c and wk), Ben Dwarshuis, Chris Green, Jason Behrendorff, Tanveer Sangha.