Australia choose to bowl in opening ODI; Darlington, Yastika, Meghna make global debuts

Australia selected to bowl vs India

Australia have gained the toss and opted to ship India in on a recent floor in Mackay for the outlet ODI of the multi-format sequence.

Australia captain Meg Lanning, taking part in her two hundredth sport for Australia, had no hesitation in bowling first. India captain Mithali Raj showed she would have performed the similar had the coin fallen her method. Either side will unveil debutants.

Hannah Darlington, 19, will develop into the 3rd indigenous lady to play ODI cricket for Australia after being named to make her debut. The NSW and Sydney Thunder seamer was once passed her cap via fellow indigenous participant Ashleigh Gardner.

It’s going to be simply the second one time since 2012 that Australia has fielded an ODI XI with out Megan Schutt and Jess Jonassen. Schutt is on parental go away whilst Jonassen is getting better from a leg damage.

Speedster Darcie Brown additionally will get her likelihood to provoke whilst Tayla Vlaeminck is rested for the ODI leg of the sequence.

India have named 3 debutants. Left-hand batter Yastika Bhatia has been showed as Harmanpreet Kaur’s substitute after the vice-captain was once dominated out the previous day following a blow at the thumb at coaching. The 21-year-old seems set to bat at No. 3 after creating a 42-ball 41 within the warm-up sport in Brisbane on Saturday. Raj is ready to stick at No. 4 regardless of batting at No. 3 within the apply fit.

Richa Ghosh makes her ODI debut with the gloves after taking part in 9 T20Is in her brief occupation thus far, changing the extra skilled wicketkeeper, Taniya Bhatia, whilst 27-year-old tempo bowler Meghna Singh will constitute India for the primary time with Shikha Pandey unnoticed.

India did not select any left-arm spinners of their XI, with wristspinner Poonam Yadav and offspin-bowling allrounders Deepti Sharma and Sneh Rana making up the spin assault.

Australia XI: Rachael Haynes, Alyssa Healy (wk), Meg Lanning (c), Ellyse Perry, Beth Mooney, Ashleigh Gardner, Tahlia McGrath, Sophie Molineux, Georgia Wareham, Hannah Darlington, Darcie Brown

India XI: Shafali Verma, Smriti Mandhana, Yastika Bhatia, Mithali Raj (c), Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh (wk), Pooja Vastrakar, Sneh Rana, Jhulan Goswami, Meghna Singh, Poonam Yadav

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