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Cricket: India win toss, elect to bat first

| @indiablooms | Sep 21, 2017, at 07:43 pm
Kolkata, Sep 21 (IBNS): Indian cricket skipper Virat Kohli has won the toss and elected to bat first in the second ODI match against Australia, here on Thursday.

So far, the Indian openers have managed to put on 19 runs for the loss of no wicket in five overs.

Playing the five-match series, the home team leads 1-0, courtesy their win in a rain-curtailed match in Chennai.

India playing eleven:

Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane, Virat Kohli (c), Manish Pandey, Kedar Jadhav, MS Dhoni (wk), Hardik Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah

Asutralia playing eleven:

David Warner, Hilton Cartwright, Steven Smith (c), Travis Head, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Matthew Wade (wk), Ashton Agar, Kane Richardson, Pat Cummins, Nathan Coulter-Nile

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