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Toss Australia chose to bat v India

Australia’s captain Aaron Finch won the toss and chose to send India in to bat in the second ODI in Nagpur, after MS Dhoni guided the hosts to a successful chase in the opening match of the series in Hyderabad.

Concerns about defending a target among the visitors appeared to have overruled the state of the Nagpur pitch, which looked dry and cracked, likely to take increasing amounts of spin as the game goes on.

Oddly given the decision at the toss, the Australians chose two spinners for an exceedingly rare occasion in 50-over matches, with Nathan Lyon and the fit-again Shaun Marsh returning in place of Jason Behrendorff and Ashton Turner. India were unchanged.

India: 1 Shikhar Dhawan, 2 Rohit Sharma, 3 Virat Kohli (capt), 4 Ambati Rayudu, 5 MS Dhoni (wk), 6 Kedar Jadhav, 7 Vijay Shankar, 8 Ravindra Jadeja, 9 Mohammed Shami, 10 Kuldeep Yadav, 11 Jasprit Bumrah

Australia: 1 Usman Khawaja, 2 Aaron Finch (capt), 3 Shaun Marsh, 4 Marcus Stoinis, 5 Peter Handscomb, 6 Glenn Maxwell, 7 Alex Carey (wk), 8 Nathan Coulter-Nile, 9 Pat Cummins, 10 Nathan Lyon, 11 Adam Zampa

Source: ESPN Crickinfo

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