*Official* Australia in India ODIs 2019/20

[Spikey]

First ODI: Tuesday 14 January, Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai (13:30 IST/7pm AEST)

Second ODI: Friday 17 January, Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot (13:30 IST/7pm AEST)

Third ODI: Sunday 19 January, M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru (13:30 IST/7pm AEST)

Australia squad

Aaron Finch (capt), D'Arcy Short*, Ashton Agar, Alex Carey (wk), Pat Cummins, Peter Handscomb, Josh Hazlewood, Marnus Labuschagne, Kane Richardson, Steven Smith, Mitchell Starc, Ashton Turner, David Warner, Adam Zampa (*Short replaced Sean Abbott)

India squad

Virat Kohli (Captain), Rohit Sharma (vice-captain), Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Kedar Jadhav, Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Jasprit Bumrah, Shardul Thakur, Mohd. Shami.

 

[trundler]

But 2019 is already over

 

[Spikey]

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/...tipped-take-pivotal-role-australia-odi-set-up

I mean, this was pretty obviously the case when the squad was announced

 

[Spikey]

But 2019 is already over

mods make a ruling

i feel like 20xx/20yy gets used until like April/May of 20yy, I guess because it gets included in the wider cricket season

 

[Gnske]

the future is now old man

 

[Spark]

part of the 2019/20 season so title is fair enough, although i have made it clear it's just ODIs

 

[harsh.ag]

Bhuvi's injury taking too long to heal

No Wade for Australia?

 

[Bat Flip]

Why we going to india for these?

They are playing NZ in a couple of weeks for a big tour, easier for them to pop over here before heading across the ditch
Or we could have the Chappell Hadlee trophy played now instead of playing it in March

Never seen this sort of scheduling in our summer, then one dayers start of the NRL season

 

[Spikey]

Bhuvi's injury taking too long to heal

No Wade for Australia?

Wade hasn't been part of the ODI set-up for a long time and I don't see him returning for a while

 

[Spikey]

Why we going to india for these?

this is gonna come up time and time again so I plan to included a section of the OP answering this. stay tuned

 

[Daemon]

this is gonna come up time and time again so I plan to included a section of the OP answering this. stay tuned

Lol who read the OP anyways

 

[Spikey]

OP's should be used as a reference source. You'll note that I actually included the fixture, time and date of matches and the squads. You could learn a thing or two from this.

ps tim david sucks

 

[Magrat Garlick]

excellent OP

shame it's JAMODIs

 

[NUFAN]

this is gonna come up time and time again so I plan to included a section of the OP answering this. stay tuned

Maybe explain why Maxwell isnt there (I expect it will be a popular topic too)

Im excited to see Marnus

 

[Gnske]

I cannot wait for Rohit to slam three consecutive tons.

 

[Spikey]

Why isn't Glenn Maxwell in the squad?

Maxwell's ODI stats since Jan 2016

A fun part of that StatsGuru is by picking the 1st of Jan, I actually spilt his career of 110 games perfectly in half (here's the first half). Anyway, the rejection of Maxwell's bowling (first by captains and then by opposition batsmen) makes it difficult to fit Maxwell into the team imo, given he's a low 30's average guy (albeit at an amazing S/R - this is true either side of the 55 games, I think his first 55 games is at an average of 35ish while the last 55 is 29.8, so not a huge difference). Maxwell basically playing as a specialist batsman has meant including another all-rounder below him (usually Stoinis) who typically has much the same problem as Maxwell, not good enough with bat or ball. This makes for a weaker team overall. They've basically decided to dump both these all-rounders and just pick a proper batsman and more of a bowling all-rounder in Ashton Agar. Ideally, Maxwell should be batting at 6ish and bowling 6+ overs. This is basically the role he did have when Clarke/Bailey was captain (plus the other A/R was Shane Watson...)

One thing about the stats, Maxwell did bowl a lot in early 2019. In 2016, 17 and 18 Maxwell only bowled 55 overs in 32 matches

 

[Bat Flip]

Maxwell had a poor Word cup, as did Stoinis.

Labuschagne had to be in the squad

 

[Spikey]

One interesting aspect is that Sean Abbott's replacement wasn't another fast bowler but D'Arcy Short. I wonder if they'll give Agar the first couple of games and if he doesn't do much, they'll look to play Short and get overs out of him and Marnus

 

[NUFAN]

In the Marsh Cup (50 overs)

Labuschagne played 6 matches: 14 overs 1-99.
Short played 8 matches: 12 overs 2-76

Against such a potent batting lineup, id be nervous needing 10 overs from Marnus+D'arcy.

 

[Spikey]

yeah it wouldn't be any better than Stonis/MaxwelI, but I can't fathom any other reason for Short being there given they already have one reserve batsman.