The Australia cricket team toured India from February and March 2019 to play two Twenty20 International (T20I) and five One Day International (ODI) matches. The ODI fixtures were part of both teams' preparation for the 2019 Cricket World Cup. Australia won the T20I series 2–0, their first T20I series win against India.
India won the first two ODIs of the series, and with their victory in the second match, registered their 500th win in the format. India became the second team, after Australia, to record 500 wins in ODIs. Despite losing the first two matches, Australia went on to win the ODI series 3–2. It was the first time that Australia had won an ODI series in India since 2009. It was also the first series loss for India at home since losing 2–3 to South Africa in October 2015, and Virat Kohli's first ODI series loss at home.
Squads Shaun Marsh was included in Australia's ODI squad, with D'Arcy Short named as cover for Marsh. Andrew Tye replaced Kane Richardson in Australia's ODI squad after Richardson was ruled out due to injury.
Siddarth Kaul was selected for first two ODIs, with Bhuvneshwar Kumar replacing him for remaining three ODIs in India's ODI squad. Ahead of the tour, Hardik Pandya was ruled out of India's squads due to injury. Ravindra Jadeja replaced him in India's ODI squad, but no replacement was made in their T20I squad. MS Dhoni was rested for the final two ODIs of the series, with Rishabh Pant named as the wicket-keeper in India's squad in his place.
ODIsT20Is Virat Kohli (c) Rohit Sharma (vc) Jasprit Bumrah Yuzvendra Chahal Shikhar Dhawan MS Dhoni (wk) Ravindra Jadeja Kedar Jadhav Siddarth Kaul Bhuvneshwar Kumar Hardik Pandya Rishabh Pant KL Rahul Ambati Rayudu Mohammed Shami Vijay Shankar Kuldeep Yadav Aaron Finch (c) Alex Carey (vc, wk) Pat Cummins (vc) Jason Behrendorff Nathan Coulter-Nile Peter Handscomb Usman Khawaja Nathan Lyon Shaun Marsh Glenn Maxwell Jhye Richardson Kane Richardson D'Arcy Short Marcus Stoinis Ashton Turner Andrew Tye Adam Zampa Virat Kohli (c) Rohit Sharma (vc) Jasprit Bumrah Yuzvendra Chahal Shikhar Dhawan MS Dhoni (wk) Dinesh Karthik Siddarth Kaul Mayank Markande Hardik Pandya Krunal Pandya Rishabh Pant KL Rahul Vijay Shankar Umesh Yadav Aaron Finch (c) Alex Carey (vc, wk) Pat Cummins (vc) Jason Behrendorff Nathan Coulter-Nile Peter Handscomb Usman Khawaja Nathan Lyon Glenn Maxwell Jhye Richardson Kane Richardson D'Arcy Short Marcus Stoinis Ashton Turner Adam Zampa
T20I series 1st T20I
2nd T20I
ODI series 1st ODI
2nd ODI
3rd ODI
4th ODI
5th ODI
In popular culture An Australian docu-series - The Test was produced, following the Australian national cricket team in the aftermath of the Australian ball tampering scandal. The fifth episode of Season 1 featured Australia playing the 5 ODIs against India.
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External links Series home at ESPNcricinfo