Kuldeep gets a chance (Photo: PTI)

India vs Australia Playing XI: The third and last match of the ODI series between India and Australia is being played in Sydney. Australia won the toss of this match and decided to bat first. After the toss, the captains of both the teams announced their respective playing eleven. Team India has excluded 2 of its players from the playing eleven of the Sydney match. Whereas Kuldeep Yadav has been given a chance to play in Sydney.

Kuldeep Yadav gets a chance in Sydney

The biggest talking point of the Indian playing eleven is Kuldeep Yadav. There was talk of playing Kuldeep Yadav in Perth and Adelaide also. He didn't get a chance there. But taking a lesson from the last two defeats, Team India did not make the mistake of not playing Kuldeep in Sydney. Kuldeep played his last ODI match in the Champions Trophy in March this year, where he was India's second most successful bowler by taking 7 wickets in 5 matches.

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Team India dropped 2 players

Kuldeep Yadav has got a chance in place of Nitish Reddy in Sydney ODI. Another player who is out of the playing eleven of Team India is left arm fast bowler Arshdeep Singh. In place of Arshdeep, Prasidh Krishna has got a place in the playing eleven.

This is the playing 11 of India-Australia

India-

Shubman Gill (captain), Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Prasidh Krishna, Mohammed Siraj.

Australia-

Mitchell Marsh (captain), Travis Head, Matt Short, Matthew Renshaw, Alex Carey, Cooper Connolly, Mitch Owen, Nathan Ellis, Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa, Josh Heddlewood

Records of India and Australia in Sydney

India and Australia have come to play an ODI match against each other for the 20th time at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Australia has won 16 of the 19 ODIs played before this. Whereas India has been successful in only 2 matches. Whereas 1 match between the two teams has been inconclusive. Australia has won 70 percent of its matches in Sydney. Whereas India's winning percentage in ODI at Sydney Cricket Ground is 11.