Will compete with India Australia In the fourth of the five-match T20I series. This article provides details about the playing 11 of India vs Australia for the fourth match of the series.
India Playing XI vs Australia – 4th T20 Match, India Tour of Australia 2025:
Openers: Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill
The Men in Blue will be looking to make it consecutive wins against Australia in the ongoing T20 series when both the teams face each other in the fourth game.
After a disappointing performance in the second game at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the visitors made a strong comeback in the third match and will aim to continue the same form in the upcoming match to take a crucial lead in the series.
For that to happen, the visitors will rely on the opening pair of Abhishek Sharma and Shubman Gill to get the team off to a good start in the first six overs and score runs individually.
Abhishek will be looking to continue the good work he has done since his T20 debut, while his teammate Gill, who is in dire need of runs, will be looking to get back into form in this format.
Middle-order batsmen and all-rounders: Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Tilak Verma, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Shivam Dubey, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar.
If we talk about the middle order, it had made a decisive contribution in the last match, in which the biggest positive aspect was the form of captain Suryakumar Yadav, who played an important inning of 24 runs in just 11 balls.
Apart from this, Surya formed small but important partnerships with Shubman Gill and Tilak Verma to take India closer to the target.
It is being said that the batsman who completely turned the game in India’s favor was Washington Sundar, who although did not get a chance to bowl, made up for it by playing a stormy innings of 49 runs in 23 balls, which took India over the line.
Sundar was well supported by Jitesh Sharma, who played his part by scoring 22 runs in 13 balls in the sixth wicket partnership, which was equal to 43 runs.
The visitors are expected to stick to the depth approach with the bat, which worked in the previous game, and will go into the fourth T20I with an unchanged playing XI.
Bowlers: Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakraborty, Jasprit Bumrah
The bowlers did the job in the last match, restricting Australia to a manageable score following Tim David’s calculated attack in the middle overs.
Among the bowlers was Aishdeep Singh, who was included in the playing eleven in the last match and made an immediate impact by taking three wickets.
Arshdeep was well supported by Jasprit Bumrah, who kept things strong from the other end and the pair will be tasked with doing the same in the next game.
Although the Indian bowling lineup did its job with spinners Axar Patel and Varun Chakravarthy stopping the flow of runs in the middle overs, the only area of concern for the visitors was the fifth bowling option.
Shivam Dubey played the role of the fifth bowler and gave away a lot of runs in the middle and backend of the Australian batting innings, raising questions about the decision to bowl him the last five overs.
It will be interesting to see if there is any change in Shivam Dubey’s role in the upcoming match, or the captain and team management decide to favor the fast bowling all-rounder to bowl the tough overs.
