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Ind vs Aus 5th T20I: India hope to end the series on a thrilling note

Having already outplayed Australia in the three matches of the ongoing five-match T20I series, India will lock horns with Australia in the fifth and final T20I on Sunday at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. India overcame Australia in the fourth match on Friday to seal the series victory. In the fourth match, India had bowled out Australia for (154) while defending the total of (174). Axar Patel and Ravi Bishnoi remained the stars of the show with the bowl with their extraordinarily economical spells. Australia, on the other hand, had kept themselves alive in the series with their win in the third match that came on the back of a raging unbeaten knock of (104) from Glenn Maxwell. Although, Australia have lost the series but they would look forward to finishing the series on a positive note. Australia are not having the services of Maxwell, Steve Smith and Adam Zampa as they have returned to Australia. India, on the other hand, would eye a thrilling finish after having already made an impact in their past matches. India played this series with a young-looking squad led by Suryakumar Yadav amidst the presence of Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rinku Singh, Ravi Bishnoi and Mukesh Kumar followed by others. Shreyas Iyer and Deepak Chahar returned to the side in the fourth match but they failed to make their instant impact. Shreyas Iyer failed with the bat after scoring only eight runs while Deepak Chahar remained expensive with the ball after leaking (44) runs, however he took two wickets. Nonetheless, both would hope to return to full form as India look forward to pinning down the visitors.
India Probable XI: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Suryakumar Yadav (c), Rinku Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Jitesh Sharma/ Ishan Kishan (wk), Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh/Avesh Khan, Mukesh Kumar, Deepak Chahar.
Australia Probable XI: Josh Philippe, Travis Head, Ben McDermott, Aaron Hardie, Tim David, Matthew Short, Matthew Wade (c&wk), Ben Dwarshuis, Chris Green/Kane Richardson, Jason Behrendorff, Tanveer Sangha
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