Rohit Sharma will lead India in the second warm-up match versus Australia at the ICC Academy Ground in Dubai. Australia won the toss and opted to bat. Regular captain Virat Kohli has been rested along with fast bowlers Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami.
At the toss, Rohit said, "Kohli, Bumrah and Shami are resting today. We wanted to bat first as well, just wanted to try and get runs on the board. We want to make sure that we get the 6th bowling option, some options in the batting order as well, we'll try all those things today."
For Australia, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Swepson and Josh Inglis are not part of the squad.
India (11 batting, 11 fielding): KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma (c), Ishan Kishan, Rishabh Pant (w), Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Rahul Chahar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shardul Thakur, Varun Chakaravarthy.
Australia (11 batting, 11 fielding): David Warner, Aaron Finch (c), Mitchell Marsh, Steven Smith, Marcus Stoinis, Matthew Wade (w), Ashton Agar, Mitchell Starc, Kane Richardson, Adam Zampa, Glenn Maxwell, Pat Cummins.
(With PTI inputs)