Richard Kettleborough (England), Wayne Knights (New Zealand), Allahuddien Paleker (South Africa, TV)
Referee
Jeff Crowe (New Zealand)
Toss
Australia elected to bat
Pitch Report
This pitch is quite hard. There are a few cracks running vertically down the surface. There is some green grass too. The ball should go through nicely and it does look a good deck for batting if you apply yourself.
Weather Update
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Sydney,Australia
Updated: 25 Oct 09:30
24.7°CClear
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Clouds
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Rain %
9 kmph
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6.4 Prasidh Krishna to Travis Head, no run
6.3 Prasidh Krishna to Travis Head, FOUR RUNS! Back of a length on off-stump. Head short-arm pulls it over the in-field and gets it away to the right of deep square for a boundary.
6.2 Prasidh Krishna to Mitchell Marsh, Oh! Back of a length on off-stump. Marsh was late on it. The push down to the mid-on area gets inside-edged on to pad. The ricochet to the gully area gives him a run.
Could be a loosener first up. But you do not bowl short to Marsh.
6.1 Prasidh Krishna to Mitchell Marsh, SIX RUNS! Digs it in short on middle-stump. Marsh rocks back and pulls it deep into the crowd over deep square-leg, off the back foot!
First change as Prasidh Krishna's on. He has 29 wickets from 17 one-dayers prior to today. Runs in with a wide slip.
Prasidh Krishna's New Bowling spell
You'd think India have seen and suffered enough at the hands of Travis Head to realize that bowling around the wicket is a good way to go early on before he's set. Yet, bizarrely enough, they've not done that from the start.
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Travis Head*
17(17)
Mitchell Marsh
7(19)
Harshit Rana
0/11
5.6 Harshit Rana to Travis Head, good length on middle-and-leg. Head hangs back and clips it to mid-wicket but that was slightly aerial. No run.
5.5 Harshit Rana to Travis Head, round the wicket, BIG SHOUT, BUT TO NO AVAIL! Full and angling in on the pads. Head's clip off the legs gets missed though. Would have missed leg.
Around the wicket now. You reckon India should've done this from the very beginning.
You can't dish out width like that to Head.
5.4 Harshit Rana to Travis Head, FOUR RUNS! On the fuller side of good length around off-stump. Head strokes it on the up through the covers and the timing does the rest!
5.3 Harshit Rana to Mitchell Marsh, much fuller on middle-and-off. Marsh gets it away to the left of mid-off from the attempted off-drive for a single. But that came more off the outer half of the bat.
5.2 Harshit Rana to Mitchell Marsh, good length on off-stump. Marsh gets tucked up as he presses forward to push it to cover for no run.
5.1 Harshit Rana to Mitchell Marsh, good length on off-stump. Marsh stands on off-stump and taps it around to short mid-wicket for no run.
Just the one slip now.
Brilliant from Head! Incredible hand-eye coordination to just hold his ground and put that one away, given that there wasn't a whole lot of room to work with. There has been some movement and bounce on offer but Australia have still managed to start in brisk fashion.
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