India (IND) vs Australia (AUS) 1st ODI Live Cricket Score Updates: The focus will be firmly on Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma as India take on Australia in the first game of the 3-match ODI series at Perth on Sunday. With Kohli and Rohit already retired from T20Is and Tests, this is the first time since winning the Champions Trophy in March that these two stalwarts will be taking the field for the Men in Blue.
With both players keen to play the 2027 World Cup in South Africa, this series in Australia will be the stage for Rohit and Virat to prove their naysayers wrong. This will also be the first time in a while that Rohit will be in the team as a pure batter with the pressures of captaincy off him.
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That pressure of leadership, meanwhile, will fall on the young shoulders of Shubman Gill who will be marking his debut as India’s ODI skipper with this series. Like Tests, Gill replaced Rohit as the captain with the 25-year-old keen to prove his mettle Down Under.
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On the edge in Oz: Rohit Sharma’s ODI legacy and the looming curtain call
Rohit Sharma has been replaced as captain, with both chief selector Ajit Agarkar and head coach Gautam Gambhir non-committal about his and Kohli’s future. (AP Photo)
Rohit Sharma has watched several versions of Australia, just as Australia has beheld different iterations of Rohit Sharma. When he first landed Down Under in 2008, Ricky Ponting was the captain, the troika of Bill Lawry, Tony Greig and Richie Benaud were still commentating.
In the next 17 years, Australia’s ODI leadership would change half a dozen hands, the ODI emperors would stack their cupboard with two more World Cups, and would painfully endure the death of Phil Hughes and Shane Warne. (READ MORE)
