India will face Australia In the second match of the three-match ODI series. This article provides details about the playing 11 of Australia vs India for the second match of the series.
Australia Playing XI vs India – 2nd ODI, India tour of Australia 2025:
Openers: Mitchell Marsh (captain), Travis Head
The Kangaroos will be looking to make it consecutive wins in the ongoing ODI series against India and take an unassailable lead in the three-match series when both the teams meet in the second ODI at the Adelaide Oval.
The captain and team management will be impressed by the professionalism with which the Australian team acted in the opening games.
The home team will look to repeat the same performance in the upcoming game, but for a much longer period.
Australia will open the batting with Mitchell Marsh and Travis Head, both of them are known for playing aggressive cricket at the top order and will look to do the same in the next match.
It is being said that Travis Head got out in the first ODI trying to play aggressively, so it will be interesting to see if he continues to play like this in Adelaide as well.
Head’s opening partner and Australia captain Mitchell Marsh played a sensible innings in the last match when the team lost a few wickets early while chasing a normal score and he will look to continue the good performance.
Middle-order batsmen and all-rounders: Matthew Short, Josh Philippe (wk), Matthew Renshaw, Cooper Connolly, Mitchell Owen.
After the opening pair will come the middle order which will take a new look after the retirement of some senior players.
Despite the middle-order being relatively inexperienced, it did a good job with players like Josh Philippe and Matt Renshaw ensuring that the reigning ODI World Cup winners did not suffer a collapse.
Apart from Phillips and Renshaw, the team will also expect Owen and Connolly to get some time in the middle.
However, the responsibility of scoring most of the runs will be on the top five batsmen.
Bowlers: Mitchell Starc, Nathan Ellis, Matthew Kuhnman, Josh Hazlewood
The host team will be encouraged by their bowling performance in the first ODI and would like the bowlers to deliver a similar performance in the second game of the three-match series.
As he does on most occasions, Starc will take the new ball for Australia and will be partnered by Josh Hazlewood, who has been in good form in recent times and will look to continue that in the next game.
Starc and Hazlewood will be assisted by Nathan Ellis and fast bowling all-rounder Mitchell Owen, who will play a vital role for Australia by batting at number six or seven along with bowling a few overs if required.
If we talk about the spin bowling department, it will be commanded by Matthew Kuhnman, who won a lot of praise for his bowling at the end of the innings in the last match.
