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'His new PR team is now Australia' - Fans react as Australia players praise Rohit Sharma ahead of ODI World Cup 2023

India skipper Rohit Sharma has an impeccable record in ODI cricket against Australia. Both India and Australia will take on each other.

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India skipper Rohit Sharma has an impeccable record against Australia in ODI cricket. After 43 games he played against the opposition, he amassed 2332 runs averaging 59.79 including eight hundreds and nine fifties. In the recent series between the two teams, Sharma played only one game. In that game, the right-hander scored 80-odd runs. Meanwhile, in a video that is going viral, Australian players are seen praising the two-time World Cup winner.

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Meanwhile, in the recent three-match ODI series, the Men In Blue won by 2-1. In the first two games, both teams fielded their second-string playing XI. These games proved to be filled with positivity. In the last game, both teams played their first-choice players with the Kangaroos prevailing and managing to avoid whitewash.

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Meanwhile, both teams will again play each other in the upcoming ODI World Cup 2023. They will lock horns on October 8 in Chennai. In the previous game between these teams in March this year, Australia won by a decent margin.

India squad: Rohit Sharma (c), Hardik Pandya (vc), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav.

Australia squad: Pat Cummins (c), Steve Smith, Alex Carey, Josh Inglis, Sean Abbott, Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Marnus Labuschagne, Mitch Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, David Warner, Adam Zampa, Mitchell Starc.

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