Overview:
Tilak played a match-winning innings against Pakistan in the final of the Asia Cup 20205 and was named the Player of the Match.
Team India made one change for the fifth and final T20I against Australia, with Tilak Varma going out and Rinku Singh taking his place. Tilak struggled in the series, and his failure forced the team management to drop him. Although captain Suryakumar Yadav said that Tilak has been rested, the southpaw was left out after his inconsistency in the previous matches.
Rinku has travelled with the team in the last few series, but the batter hasn’t been able to get games regularly. On the other hand, Tilak played a match-winning innings against Pakistan in the final of the Asia Cup 20205 and was named the Player of the Match. In the past as well, Varma has been among the runs in the shortest format of the game. It was surprising to see him going out when the Men in Blue are on the cusp of winning the series.
The visitors are leading 2-1, with just one game left. Meanwhile, Suryakumar lost the toss for the fourth time in the series. He has tried different tactics without success. When Mitchell Marsh gave a flip to the coin, Yadav looked in another direction, thinking of winning the toss, but it didn’t help him. Marsh has invited India to bat first on a track that his likely to assist the bowlers in the first innings.
Playing XIs
India: 1 Abhishek Sharma, 2 Shubman Gill, 3 Suryakumar Yadav (capt), 4 Rinku Singh, 5 Axar Patel, 6 Shivam Dube, 7 Jitesh Sharma (wk), 8 Washington Sundar, 9 Arshdeep Singh, 10 Varun Chakravarthy, 11 Jasprit Bumrah
Australia: 1 Matt Short, 2 Mitchell Marsh (capt), 3 Josh Inglis (wk), 4 Tim David, 5 Josh Philippe, 6 Marcus Stoinis, 7 Glenn Maxwell, 8 Ben Dwarshuis, 9 Xavier Bartlett, 10 Nathan Ellis, 11 Adam Zampa