India will face Australia in the second T20I of the ongoing five-match series on Friday (October 31) in Melbourne. After the series opener at Manuka Oval in Canberra got washed out due to rain, both the teams would like to come up with a big show at Melbourne Cricket Ground on Friday to take a 1-0 lead in the ongoing bilateral series. In the series opener, world No. 1 T20I batter Abhishek Sharma failed to do much with the bat and got out early, but the likes of Shubman Gill and Suryakumar Yadav impressed with their batting.

Abhishek, who won the Player Of The Tournament award last month in the Asia Cup, would also like to score big runs in Melbourne along with other players.

In the series opener, India left Arshdeep Singh out of the playing XI despite him being the team’s highest wicket-

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