Australia v India, first ODI: match preview

Match facts

Who: Australia v India

 

What: BKT Tyres ODI Series, first ODI

 

When: October 19, 2025, first ball 2:30pm AEDT (11:30am AWST)

 

Where: Perth Stadium

 

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Officials: Richard Kettleborough and Sam Nogajski (field), Allahudien Paleker (third), Gerard Abood (fourth), Jeff Crowe (match referee)

 

News and reactions post-play: cricket.com.au and the CA Live app

Series fixtures

October 19: First ODI v India, Perth Stadium, Perth, 2:30pm AEDT

 

October 23: Second ODI v India, Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, 2:30pm AEDT

 

October 25: Third ODI v India, SCG, Sydney, 2:30pm AEDT

The squads

Australia squad: Mitchell Marsh (c), Xavier Bartlett, Cooper Connolly, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Matthew Kuhnemann, Marnus Labuschagne, Mitchell Owen, Josh Philippe, Matthew Renshaw, Matthew Short, Mitchell Starc

Updated: Cameron Green was ruled out of the series on Friday after experiencing "low grade side soreness" at training in the lead up to the first ODI. Australia are understandably taking a cautious approach with their star allrounder as he returns to bowling ahead of the Ashes. Red-hot batter Marnus Labuschagne comes into Australia's ODI squad after initially being omitted. Two of Labuschagne's four centuries for Queensland this domestic season have been in the one-day format.

Wicketkeeper Josh Inglis has also been ruled out of the first ODI as he continues to recover from a right calf strain, while Alex Carey misses the match to play in South Australia's round two Sheffield Shield fixture and Adam Zampa for family reasons.

Tasmanian spinner Matthew Kuhnemann comes into the squad for Zampa while NSW gloveman Josh Philippe replaces Inglis and will play his first ODI since 2021. Batter Matthew Renshaw and allrounder Mitch Owen are in line to make their ODI debuts.

Mitchell Starc is set to make his first appearance of the home summer as he and Josh Hazlewood build towards the start of the Ashes next month and Nathan Ellis (paternity leave) is the white-ball mix after missing the T20 tour of New Zealand earlier this month. Allrounder Aaron Hardie drops out of the squad that faced South Africa in August.

India squad: Shubman Gill (c), Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Mohammed Siraj, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Dhruv Jurel, Yashasvi Jaiswal

Shubman Gill has been named India's new 50-over captain, replacing Rohit Sharma who led the team during their triumphant Champions Trophy campaign back in February. Veteran batters Rohit and Virat Kohli remain part of India's ODI squad in what could be their final tour of Australia with the pair having retired from the Test and T20 international formats.

Mohammed Siraj could play his first ODI in more than a year during the three-match series while Jasprit Bumrah has only been included in T20 squad for the five matches that follow the ODI series. KL Rahul and Dhruv Jurel are the wicketkeeping options with Rishabh Pant recovering a fractured foot, while Hardik Pandya also has a quad injury.

Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal returns to Perth Stadium where he scored an epic 161 during last year's Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test and Shreyas Iyer is in good form after hitting 110 and 62 in one-dayers against Australia A last month.

Possible XIs

Australia: Mitch Marsh (c), Travis Head, Matt Short, Matthew Renshaw, Josh Philippe (wk), Mitch Owen, Cooper Connolly, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Ellis, Josh Hazlewood, Matthew Kuhnemann

 

India: Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill (c), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wk), Axar Patel, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Prasidh Krishna, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh

Local knowledge

India have never played an ODI at Perth Stadium and Australia have never won one there in three attempts. The closest they came was at the venue's first international match in January 2018 when they fell to England by 12 runs.

Since then, they've been bundled out by the pace of both South Africa (December 2018) and Pakistan (November 2024), rolled for 152 and 140 respectively after being asked to bat first on both occasions.

As is traditionally customary at West Australian cricket venues, fast bowlers have dominated in the three 50-over internationals played at Perth Stadium, capturing five times as many wickets as spinners while operating at a lower economy rate.

Form guide

Past 10 matches, most recent first. W: win, L: loss, N: no result

Australia: WLLLNWLLLL

While they recorded their second largest winning margin by runs in their most recent ODI, Australia have lost their past three bilateral series in the 50-over format – 2-1 to South Africa in August, 2-0 to Sri Lanka in February and 2-1 to Pakistan last November.

The Aussies have only won two of their past 10 ODIs, beating the Proteas by 276 runs in their last start and England at the Champions Trophy in February, with the side in somewhat of a rebuilding phase following the recent ODI retirements of Steve Smith, Glenn Maxwell and Marcus Stoinis.

India: WWWWWWWWLL

Champions Trophy winners, undefeated in past eight matches at the tournament and their preceding three-match series against England, the visitors are the clear No.1 ranked side in one-day internationals. India's last ODI loss came more than a year ago to Sri Lanka in Colombo in August 2024.

But India will also usher in a new era this series as Shubman Gill takes the reins as captain, while superstar quick Jasprit Bumrah is sitting out the three-match series, providing opportunities to the likes of 23-year-old Harshit Rana and 22-year-old Nitish Kumar Reddy.

Players to watch

Mitch Marsh: While Cameron Green grabbed all the attention with his 47-ball ton in Australia's last ODI, skipper Marsh (100) and Travis Head (142) also hit centuries in a 250-run opening stand. Marsh added another white-ball hundred in the third T20 against New Zealand earlier this month to continue his hot start to the summer and shapes as one of Australia's key men if they're to upset the world's No.1 team.

Shubman Gill: Having hit four centuries, including a double, in his debut series as Test captain against England in June-July, India's new ODI skipper will be out to impress in his first series in charge. Gill is fresh off a century in this week's second Test win over West Indies in Delhi and already has two ODI tons and an 87 to his name in 2025.

Rapid stats

• India have won four of their last six men's ODIs against Australia including a four-wicket win in the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy – their only meeting in the format since the beginning of 2024.
  
  
• India have won six of their last 10 bilateral multi-game men's ODI series against Australia after winning only one of their first five series against them in the format.
  
  
• Australia have won their last three men's ODIs against India in Perth, spanning 2000 to 2016, but this will be the first time that they've met in the format at Perth Stadium. However, India have won three of their last five matches against Australia in Australia in the format.
  
  
• Australia have lost all three of their men's ODIs at Perth Stadium, losing by six or more wickets with more than 120 balls remaining in each of their last two matches there; in fact, there is only one venue in men's ODI history where Australia have lost more consecutive games to start their record there (lost four at P Sara Oval, Colombo).
  
  
• India are on an eight-game winning streak in men's ODIs – which began with their first match of 2025 against England at Nagpur – after they had won only two of their previous seven matches in the format.
  
  
• India have lost three of their last five bilateral men's ODI series played away from home, including a 0-2 series loss to Sri Lanka in their last such series. The last time they finished consecutive series away from home without winning a game was in 2013-14 in series against South Africa and New Zealand.
  
  
• No player from a full member team has made more run outs in men's ODIs in 2025 than India's Shreyas Iyer (3), while no Australian player has made more than one; however, Iyer has dropped two of his five catch attempts in the format this year.
  
  
• Mitchell Starc (Australia) has dismissed Shubman Gill three times in ODIs, the most of any bowler in the format, and has taken 13 wickets across his last six innings against India in the format.
  
  
• Rohit Sharma (499) is set to play his 500th international across Tests, ODIs, and T20Is for India, becoming just the fifth player to reach the milestone for them (Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni, Rahul Dravid), while he is also 300 away from reaching 20,000 runs scored for India across all formats.

Australia v India ODIs 2025

October 19: First ODI v India, Perth Stadium, Perth, 2:30pm AEDT

October 23: Second ODI v India, Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, 2:30pm AEDT

October 25: Third ODI v India, SCG, Sydney, 2:30pm AEDT

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