India will face Australia In the fourth of the five-match T20I series. This article provides details about the playing 11 of Australia vs India for the fourth match of the series.
Australia Playing XI vs India – 4th T20I, India tour of Australia 2025:
Openers: Mitchell Marsh (captain), Josh Philippe
After losing the last match in Hobart, Australia would like to make a strong comeback in the five-match T20 series against India.
The Mitchell Marsh-led side will be without some of its key players, including left-handed opening batsman Travis Head, who has been released from the squad for the last two matches in preparation for the upcoming Ashes series against England.
Head’s absence from the team will mean that wicketkeeper batsman Josh Philippe will get a chance at the top of the order with captain Mitchell Marsh, who will have to take the responsibility and get his team off to a good start.
Philip, who is yet to prove himself at the international level, would like to grab this opportunity with both hands and give a strong performance in the upcoming match.
Australia will feel that they fell 10-15 runs short of the winning score in the third T20I against India and will aim to improve that in the next match if they bat first.
Middle-order batsmen and all-rounders: Josh Inglis (wicketkeeper), Tim David, Mitchell Owen, Marcus Stoinis, Matthew Short.
Unlike the top order, which will change, the middle order is predicted to remain intact, with some in-form players completing Australia’s batting lineup.
The middle order, which includes players like Josh Inglis, Tim David, Mitchell Owen, Marcus Stoinis and Matthew Short, will be tasked with delivering good outings and controlling things in the middle phase of the innings.
If the above mentioned batsmen carry on, Australia will look to cross the 200-run mark for the first time in the series, something the team was on track to do in the previous game but missed.
For this to happen, the top five batsmen will have to convert those starts into big scores to make big scores for the team, as Tim David did in the third match.
Bowlers: Xavier Bartlett, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Matthew Kuhnman
Another player who will not be a part of the squad for the remaining few matches is Sean Abbott, and he will be replaced by Ben Dwarshuis as the third fast bowler along with Xavier Bartlett and Nathan Ellis.
Talking about the home team’s bowling performance in the last game, the team management will be somewhat satisfied with the way players like Nathan Ellis and Xavier Bartlett started.
When both came to bowl, they took wickets at regular intervals and kept the Australian team in the game for most of the time.
The Australian team would like Bartlett and Ellis to continue their good work and Ben Dwarshuis to support them.
As far as the spin bowling department is concerned, it will be handled by Matthew Kuhnman, with part-time bowlers like Matthew Short filling the quota of the fifth bowler, along with fast bowling all-rounders Marcus Stoinis and Mitchell Owen.
