
02 Mar 2019, 1:49 PM (IST)
Marcus Stoinis comes at the crease after Finch's departure.
Australia at 8/1 after 3 overs.
Recently,
Australia coach Justin Langer on promised unwavering support for out-of-form Aaron Finch, saying he has no doubts that the limited-overs skipper will soon find his mojo back.
Finch's rough patch has extended to the T20s as he was out for zero and eight in the two T20Is which Australia won to claim their maiden series win in the shortest format in India.
02 Mar 2019, 1:15 PM (IST)
Australian skipper Aaron Finch won the toss and opted to bat first in the first One-Day International of a five-match series against India at Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium.
After winning the toss, Finch said, "Hopefully, we can post a big score."
"We want to keep improving all the time. We have made good ground in ODIs in the last 4-5 months."
"We have made very good progress," he added.
On the other hand, India captain Virat Kohli said, "We want to continue what we did in New Zealand and Australia."
India included Ravindra Jadeja in the playing XI in place of Yuzvendra Chahal, who has been rested.
"We are giving Chahal a break today so Jadeja comes in. We will rotate our wrist spinners. Rest, we have the same combination of 2 fast bowlers, Vijay Shankar and Ravindra Jadeja to provide us the balance and give us depth in batting," said Virat.
Virat mentioned the concerns regarding middle-order batting. He said, "A couple of things we need to work on in our middle-order. We want to up the scoring rate more in the middle overs."
Playing XI:
Australia: Aaron Finch(c), Usman Khawaja, Marcus Stoinis, Peter Handscomb, Glenn Maxwell, Ashton Turner, Alex Carey(w), Nathan Coulter-Nile, Pat Cummins, Adam Zampa, Jason Behrendorff
India: Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli(c), Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni(w), Kedar Jadhav, Vijay Shankar, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah