Australia vs India, 3rd T20I - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

Toss and teams

India have won the crucial toss and as expected elected to field. And they are going in with an unchanged side.

Kohli: We are going to bowl. Shorter boundaries and we had a good game last time and for the bowling line-up as well we wanted to be more professional and test ourselves. It's been a really good year for us in terms of T20 cricket, if we keep staying ahead of the opposition, and as a group we want to make sure we keep getting those results and win games of cricket.

Finch: We would have bowled first as well. It's a used wicket and hopefully we'll bat well tonight. We did see a bit of turn in the last game and expect the spinners to play key role in the middle overs. Only one change. I come in and Stoinis is out, he's got a bit of niggle and It's a long summer ahead and don't want to take any chances and blow it up. No balls are something that's killed us over the last few games and we want to control that going forward. Somewhere around 190 is what we are after and you got to be careful as this is a tough ground to defend. We gonna give it all tonight.

Australia (Playing XI): Aaron Finch(c), Matthew Wade(w), Steven Smith, Glenn Maxwell, D Arcy Short, Moises Henriques, Daniel Sams, Sean Abbott, Mitchell Swepson, Andrew Tye, Adam Zampa

India (Playing XI): KL Rahul(w), Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli(c), Sanju Samson, Hardik Pandya, Shreyas Iyer, Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, T Natarajan, Yuzvendra Chahal

Good news for Australia!

Skipper Aaron Finch seems to have regained his fitness and will most likely play tonight. Also, Josh Hazlewood is seen warming up alongside Stoinis which could mean Sean Abbott, who was under par in both games, might miss out.

Prelude:

10 wins in a row. India's impressive run in the shortest format of the game continued in Sydney, with Hardik Pandya providing the finishing touches by landing powerful blows to power the tourists to a series-clinching victory against Australia.

The Indian camp wouldn't just be buoyed by Hardik's heroics but also Natarajan's stellar show. The pacer brings a different dimension to the attack with his left-arm angle.

Meanwhile, the Australian set-up is battling with quite a few players missing out of action. The hosts fielded a rather inexperienced pace attack in the second game with both Kyle Abbott and Daniel Sams playing. On a positive note, Wade, the stand-in captain, gave a glimpse of his hitting prowess with a breezy knock at the top of the order.

Can the home side stop India's run in T20Is? We will have all the action in a few minutes...

Meanwhile, here's our preview for the game.