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2nd over: India 13-0 (Abhishek 10, Gill 2) Xavier Bartlett has the opportunity to immediately make amends for the dropped catch but Abhishek only needs a little bit of width to slice the ball over cover off the back foot. That’s the first boundary of the innings. The opener whips a straighter ball down the ground and only barely clears Mitch Marsh at mid-on for an easy three.
1st over: India 3-0 (Abhishek 2, Gill 1) DROPPED! Abhishek Sharma charges the first ball for a swing and a miss then gets under the second trying to launch it out of Gold Coast Stadium. The white ball goes up, up and up into the early evening sky as three Australia fielders run towards the drop zone. Xavier Bartlett gets there first but after a moment of hesitation he grasses the catch. A huge chance goes begging for Australia.
Ben Dwarshuis takes the new ball on his return to the Australia XI with India opener Abhishek Sharma on strike and setting himself to make a trademark blazing start. Here we go …
India XI
Shubman Gill, Abhishek Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav (capt), Tilak Varma, Axar Patel, Shivam Dube, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Washington Sundar, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah.
Don’t break up a winning combination. India are unchanged from the side that won the third game in the series in Hobart.
Australia XI
Mitchell Marsh (capt), Matt Short, Josh Inglis (wk), Tim David, Josh Philippe, Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Xavier Bartlett, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa.
Four changes for Australia as Travis Head and Sean Abbott leave the squad to prepare for the Ashes. Matt Short moves to the top of the order while Glenn Maxwell slots into the middle. Josh Philippe, Ben Dwarshuis and Adam Zampa also come into the XI.
Toss
Mitchell Marsh wins the toss and elects to bowl first on the unfamiliar deck at Gold Coast Stadium. This is just the third men’s international at the venue but Australia are certainly comfortable bowling first no matter where they play.
Suryakumar Yadav says it looks similar to India conditions so they would have batted first even if they had won the toss. The India captain’s eyes are lighting up at what he thinks is a large ground with lots of space to hit the ball into.
Preamble
Martin Pegan
Hello and welcome to live coverage of the fourth T20 international between Australia and India at Gold Coast Stadium in Carrara. The series is all up for grabs after India made it 1-1 with a five-wicket victory in Hobart on Sunday. The opening match was washed out before Australia took an early lead in Melbourne.
While the two rivals will always be out to get one over the other, there is no denying that the series is being overshadowed, at least for the hosts, by the Ashes that begin in little more than two weeks. Australia’s Test squad named yesterday includes Travis Head and Sean Abbott who have now left the T20 group to ramp up preparations for red-ball fixtures, leaving Josh Inglis as the only player to still be in both lineups. Glenn Maxwell is expected to be the player to come in for Head with Matthew Short an option to open.
India have many more players to choose from especially after Washington Sundar steered them to victory in his first game in the series on Sunday, while Nitish Kumar Reddy could return from injury.
First ball will be at 6.15pm in Gold Coast / 7.15pm AEDT / 1.45pm IST. The toss and team news will be coming up shortly. Meanwhile, let us know your thoughts and predictions – shoot me an email or find me @martinpegan on Bluesky or X. Let’s get into it!
