
Australian skipper Mitchell March.
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Australia won the toss and put Inida into bat in the second T20 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Friday (October 31).
The opening T20 of the five-match series was abandoned midway following persistent rain.
While India retained the same XI from Canberra T20, Australia made once change -- bringing in Matt Short for Josh Philippe.
Teams:
India: Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Tilak Varma, Sanju Samson(w), Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Harshit Rana, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakaravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah
Australia: Mitchell Marsh(c), Travis Head, Josh Inglis(w), Tim David, Matthew Short, Mitchell Owen, Marcus Stoinis, Xavier Bartlett, Nathan Ellis, Matthew Kuhnemann, Josh Hazlewood.
(with inputs from agencies)