After the two straight knock out in the ICC world tournament team India will now be looking forward for their Ideal team with some consistent bowling and batting performance. As Shane Watson has already said, this is a warm-up for the World Cup 2011. Both team need to focus on lots of things and need to find the right team combination.

Aussies have bad memories against India last year when they lost the series. They will be looking to to take the revenge. It will be interesting to see whether Aussies will push Shaun Marsh who played brilliantly in the IPL or will they go with same opener Tim Paine against the India ins the first ODI. Michael Clarke will be missing the game due to injury, so a little worries in the middle order but in total Aussies are back on track and Hungry to win every series now and then.

India on the other side have to come up with strong bowling attack. Their bowling have led them down in the last few series and if they need to win over Australia and move to the no. 1 ODI Rankings then they need some good bowling attack. The good news is Virender Sehwag is back in action but Yuvraj Singh is out due to injury for the first match. Rahul Dravid is not selected for the tour so Dhoni have to play a crucial role in the middle.

Teams
India (probable): 1 Sachin Tendulkar, 2 Virender Sehwag, 3 Gautam Gambhir, 4 MS Dhoni (capt/wk), 5 Suresh Raina, 6 Virat Kohli, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 Ishant Sharma/Amit Mishra, 10 Praveen Kumar, 11 Munaf Patel

Australia (probable) 1 Shane Watson, 2 Tim Paine (wk), 3 Ricky Ponting (capt), 4 Shaun Marsh, 5 Michael Hussey, 6 Cameron White, 7 James Hopes, 8 Mitchell Johnson, 9 Nathan Hauritz 10 Brett Lee, 11 Doug Bollinger.

Match Timings: 09.00 local time, 03.30 GMT

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