Team India has arrived in Brisbane for their upcoming series against Australia starting November 21st at the Gabba.
Indian Cricket Team will begin their Australia tour with Twenty-20 matches.
Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney will host these T20 games on November 21st, November 23rd, and November 25th respectively.
The blockbuster Border-Gavaskar trophy series will start on December 6th in Adelaide.
The Perth Stadium will host the second Border-Gavaskar match on December 14th, before the series moves to Melbourne for the Boxing Day test match on December 26th and Sydney for New Year's game on January 3rd, 2019.
India will then play three one-day internationals at Sydney (January 12th), Adelaide (January 15th) and Melbourne (January 18th).
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India tour of Australia
T-20s
First T20: Gabba, November 21
Second T20: MCG, November 23
Third T20: SCG, November 25
Tests
First Test: Adelaide Oval, December 6-10
Second Test: Perth Stadium, December 14-18
Third Test: MCG, December 26-30
Fourth Test: SCG, January 3-7
ODIs
First ODI: SCG, January 12
Second ODI: Adelaide Oval, January 15
Third ODI: MCG, January 18
India cricket captain Virat Kohli seen during training ahead of the International matches against Australia, at the Gabba, Brisbane, Sunday, November 18, 2018. Source: AAP Image/Dan Peled
“Kohli loves coming to Australia”
On his last visit to Australia for Test cricket, Kohli scored four hundreds and a record-breaking 692 runs across the four Tests.
Team India’s head coach Ravi Shastri believes the world's number one ranked batsman is well placed to repeat the performance.
"He loves coming to Australia," he added. "He's passionate about his game. The pitches here suit his style of play, and once you've done well in this part of the world, you always want to come out and play well again.
"I think it's a great place to play cricket – they play it hard, and the sporting public really appreciate good, tough cricket," Shashtri said.
Source: SBS Hindi
New anthem to support Team India
More than 60 members of the Bharat Army in Australia have come together and released a fan anthem to welcome Team India to Australia for the big series against Australia.
Composed, directed and filmed in Adelaide, the fan anthem ‘Jeete Ga India’ has been released to unite all the supporters of Team India.
The group will perform the song at the Indian Summer Festival being hosted at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
India T20I squad:
Virat Kohli (C), Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Lokesh Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Dinesh Karthik, Rishabh Pant, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Washington Sundar, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Umesh Yadav, K Khaleel Ahmed
India Test squad:
Virat Kohli (C), Murali Vijay, Lokesh Rahul, Prithvi Shaw, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Hanuma Vihari, Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, Parthiv Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar
