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ADELAIDE — India captain Harmanpreet Kaur won the toss and elected to bat in the third and deciding T20I against Australia at the Adelaide Oval, with offspinner Shreyanka Patil replacing seamer Kranti Gaud in the only change for the visitors .
Team News
Australia made one change, recalling big-hitter Grace Harris at the expense of allrounder Nicola Carey . Megan Schutt and vice-captain Tahlia McGrath missed out for the third consecutive match .
The surface is expected to be batting-friendly, setting the stage for a high-scoring decider in the multi-format series .
Series Context
After a hefty loss in the rain-truncated opener at the SCG, Australia rebounded with a 19-run victory in Canberra to draw level and hand Sophie Molineux her first win as captain .
Australia are aiming to avoid their first bilateral series defeat on home soil since 2017 . Ellyse Perry is set to become the first Australian player to reach 350 matches across formats .
India’s only previous bilateral series victory in Australia came in 2016, when they triumphed 2-1 in the T20Is. They also won the only previous T20I between the teams in Adelaide, chasing down 141 with five wickets in hand in January 2016 .
There is a chance of rain during the night fixture .
Teams
Australia: 1 Beth Mooney (wk), 2 Georgia Voll, 3 Phoebe Litchfield, 4 Ellyse Perry, 5 Ash Gardner, 6 Georgia Wareham, 7 Annabel Sutherland, 8 Grace Harris, 9 Sophie Molineux (capt), 10 Kim Garth, 11 Darcie Brown
India: 1 Smriti Mandhana, 2 Shafali Verma, 3 Jemimah Rodrigues, 4 Harmanpreet Kaur (capt), 5 Richa Ghosh, 6 Deepti Sharma, 7 Amanjot Kaur, 8 Arundhati Reddy, 9 Shreyanka Patil, 10 Sree Charani, 11 Renuka Singh
