India vs Australia 1st ODI Highlights: KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja lead IND to five-wicket win over AUS

Shami strays wide outside off and Smith is never going to miss out on those. Shami had given away four leg byes two balls earlier while straying down the leg side and so, losing his line a bit here.

Mitchell Marsh turning it on. He has got to 13 in nine balls now. He hits the fifth ball between cover and point for the second four of the over and then hits the last over mid-off for the third. 

The second ball of the fourth is sent in by Siraj at a length outside off. Marsh tries to go over the covers, ends up getting it off the toe of the bat but he managed to clear cover-point.

Head's wicket means that the great man is in and he was beaten on the inside edge by Shami off the fifth ball of the third over. Steve Smith had tried to punch the length ball off the back foot and ended being beaten.

Timber! Siraj cranks one up to around 140kph at a good length, Head gives him the charge and ends up chopping on. Head was beaten by a bouncer off the previous ball and Siraj had given him his now trademark stare. 

Head b Mohammed Siraj 5 (10), Australia 5/1 in 2 overs

Just the slightest bit of room given by Siraj off the fourth ball of the second and Head, the kind of form he is in, throws his bat at it. Gets the perfect connection and sends it to the boundary. 

Head ran a single off the fourth ball of that over after which Marsh fends off the last two. Mohammed Siraj steams in with the other new ball from the other end. 

Mohammed Shami has the ball in his hands, Travis Head is facing up with Mitch Marsh at the other end. Here we go!

Right, here are the two teams. The Australian national anthem comes first, sung by the players and the smattering of Australian fans in the crowd. Then comes the Indian national anthem. 

“I'm at the centre pitch, 64 metres to my right and 62 metres to my left,” says Murali Karthik. “Nice even covering of grass, very firm and will play well for 100 overs. There should be some bounce and spinners may not be in the game. Wankhede is always a chasing ground, specially with the dimensions,” adds Ajit Agarkar.

“Good toss to lose. Happy batting first because I didn't know what to do. We got to try our best to adjust to these conditions, and get our combinations right with the WC in mind. I think we played well in the back end (on BGT series), and plenty of fresh faces to choose from. Alex Carey is sick so he has gone home, so Josh Inglis will come in today. David Warner is not yet fully fit, so Mitch Marsh will open the batting. The rest of the changes will come on the big television here soon enough.”

Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Steve Smith (C), Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Inglis (WK), Cameron Green, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Sean Abbott, Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa

We'll bowl first. It is a good track and dew factor will be there. We feel we will do well in the second innings. I got some time off, breaks are like gold dust for me so it gave me a chance to rest and improve. Playing for India every game and every format is important. With this being a WC year, the ODI format is important. We've gone with four quicks - Shardul, Shami, myself and Siraj. Two spinners in Jadeja and Kuldeep.

Ishan Kishan, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya (C), Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Mohammed Shami.

Hardik Pandya has won the toss and chosen to bowl first. He feels that dew could be a factor here and India have chased well in the recent past. No David Warner for Australia!

The last time Australia visited India, then visitors won the first ODI by 10 wickets with openers David Warner and then captain Aaron Finch scoring unbeaten centuries and chasing down 258 but India won the rest of the two matches to take the series. India then visited India for a three-match series and ended up losing 2-1 themselves. 

India have won their last seven ODI matches on the trot. During this run, two Indian players have scored double centuries, one of whom is unable to make it into the first team unless captain Rohit Sharma sits out, which is the case today. Australia have always been a different challenge for India in ODIs home or away but the visitors know that they have a real task in their hands here. 

Steve Smith is one century away from equalling Ricky Ponting's tally of 14 hundreds against India across all formats. Meanwhile, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have eight ODI hundreds each against Australia - one fewer than Sachin Tendulkar.

David Warner came to India hoping to turn around his poor record in the country in Test cricket and ended up going back with a dodgy elbow and all kinds of question marks over his place in the team. It remains to be seen if he is completely free of his elbow problem but the fact is that India face a different kind of beast now. Warner's average in India is 55.85 in ODIs in eight matches, having scored centuries in two of them and a half century. 

David Warner, Travis Head, Steven Smith(c), Marnus Labuschagne, Glenn Maxwell, Alex Carey(w), Cameron Green, Ashton Agar, Sean Abbott, Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa, Mitchell Marsh, Marcus Stoinis, Josh Inglis, Nathan Ellis

Shubman Gill, Ishan Kishan(w), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya(c), Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal, Shardul Thakur, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Umran Malik, Jaydev Unadkat

Virat Kohli is next only to Sachin Tendulkar and Mohammad Azharuddin as the third-highest run-scorer at Mumbai's Wankhede stadium. Kohli has scored 265 runs from five matches with a highest of 121 - against New Zealand in 2017 - and averages a healthy 66.25 with a century and fifty each. Among the Australians, David Warner is at 13th but he scored a blistering 128 in the only ODI he has played at the venue. 

15 players, 11 places to fill. Without Rohit Sharma and Shreyas Iyer, the Indian team management could find itself in a bit of a quandary. The two headaches are choosing between KL Rahul and Ishan Kishan to open with Shubman Gill and picking between Umran Malik and Mohammed Siraj to partner Mohammed Shami with the new ball. Based on the pitch, conditions and team combinations, below is the Playing XI the Indian is likely to go ahead with.  

1 Shubman Gill

2 Ishan Kishan (Wicketkeeper)

3 Virat Kohli

4 Suryakumar Yadav

5 KL Rahul

6 Hardik Pandya (Captain)

7 Ravindra Jadeja

8 Shardul Thakur

9 Kuldeep Yadav

10 Mohammed Siraj

11 Mohammed Shami

- This could be the 50th ODI for Axar Patel.

- Rahul is 130 runs away from completing 2000 runs in ODIs.

- Steve Smith is 16 runs away from completing 2000 runs as captain in ODIs.

- David Warner is 10 runs away from completing 1000 runs against India in ODIs.

- Glenn Maxwell is 87 runs away from completing 1000 runs against India in ODIs.

After a superlative start to 2023, one can't help but think: Has Indian cricket finally found its heir to Virat Kohli is Shubman Gill? Experts think yes, and his stellar form with the bat back those claims. We are just into the third month of 2023 and Gill already has scored a double century in ODIs, and a hundred each in T20Is and Tests. His rollicking touch has all but shut the doors on Shikhar Dhawan's comeback and prolonged Ishan Kishan's wait to break into the Playing XI. The future is here. After Sri Lanka and New Zealand, is it Australia's team to bear the wrath of Gill? He has already scored 755 runs to become ODI cricket's highest run-getter in 2023.