Indian cricket team in Australia in 2020–21

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The India cricket team are currently touring Australia from November 2020 to January 2021. The Test series will form part of the inaugural 2019–21 ICC World Test Championship. The ODI series will be the inaugural 2020–22 ICC Cricket World Cup Super League. Australia won the first and second ODI matches by 66 and 51 runs respectively, to take an unassailable lead in the series. India won the third ODI match by 13 runs, with Australia winning the series 2–1. India’s captain Virat Kohli has been granted paternity leave, and will leave the tour after the first Test match, with Ajinkya Rahane leading the team in Kohli’s absence. The tour was originally going to start with three Twenty20 International matches, commencing on 11 October 2020.

However, in July 2020, the International Cricket Council confirmed that the tournament had been postponed until 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The T20I matches were postponed, after they clashed with the revised fixtures for the 2020 Indian Premier League. Virat Rohit Sharma and Ishant Sharma were not named in India’s squads for the limited overs matches, and Rohit was added to the squad after the Test match. The Australian government was also looking at applying international travel exemptions to allow the tour to happen. In September 2020, Cricket Australia said they would do everything they can to ensure the Boxing Day Test goes ahead as planned.

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