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12th over: Australia 103-4 (David 74, Stoinis 10) David pulls back as he defends anything at an awkward length from Axar rather than just swinging wildly. But as soon as Axar gives him a hint of width outside off, David pounces with a boundary through cover.
11th over: Australia 98-4 (David 70, Stoinis 9) SIX! Tim David throws caution to the wind as he steps down the pitch and clobbers Varun back over his head for a fourth six of his innings. Then ends the over with another six that narrowly misses the sightscreen. Stoinis is comfortable playing the anchor role with singles to give the dangerman the strike – something India failed to do in Melbourne on Friday.
10th over: Australia 84-4 (David 57, Stoinis 8) India crowd the bat as Axar Patel takes the ball and the pressure turns back on the Australia batters. Stoinis reverse sweeps a fuller ball to the rope then does the same again to pick up two more. The game feels very even at the halfway mark.
9th over: Australia 75-4 (David 55, Stoinis 1) Varun Chakravarthy turns the contest with two wickets in two balls. But the spinner drags the hat-trick ball short and Marcus Stoinis eases it off his pads for a single.
ShareWICKET! Owen b Varun 0 (Australia 73-4)
Mitch Owen goes first ball as he fails to pick the turn coming back into him and is clean bowled through the gate. Varun on a hat-trick!
Updated at 04.00 EST
WICKET! Marsh c Tilak Varma b Varun 11 (Australia 73-3)
The in-form Mitch Marsh has taken a backseat with Tim David off to a flyer but seems to have lost his rhythm as he mis-times a slot off Varun to be caught at long-off.
8th over: Australia 72-2 (Marsh 11, David 53) FIFTY! Tim David reaches fifty for the 10th time in T20Is, this one coming from only 23 deliveries. When he gets going, he is next to impossible to contain. Shivam Dube steps up as the next India bowler to try to do just that but David welcomes the pacer with a four, then smashes him for back-to-back boundaries through cover and to third man to bring up his milestone.
Updated at 03.55 EST
7th over: Australia 57-2 (Marsh 10, David 39) Tim David very nearly hits the ball out of Bellerive Oval. Axar Patel comes into the attack and gives the ball too much flight as David lets fly straight down the ground. That has gone 129m! A new record for the current ball-tracking tool. And to add insult to injury, the ball trickles slowly back down the black tarp sightscreen as the India fielders wait patiently for it to return. Axar can hardly claim he hadn’t been warned as David had already punished a wide ball with a six over cover. David is 38 runs from 18 balls.
6th over: Australia 43-2 (Marsh 9, David 26) DROPPED! Washington Sundar grasses a chance at backward point as Tim David digs out an inswinging yorker. India wouldn’t want to give David too many – if any – more chances, as the Australian powerhouse quickly shows as he clubs Bumrah over cover to the boundary.
5th over: Australia 35-2 (Marsh 7, David 20) SIX! Tim David opens up with a crunching cover drive to the rope than betters it with a huge six over mid-off. That’s the first six of the innings as Varun Chakravarthy replaces Arsheep and is punished for taking time to find his length. David is more than happy to receive anything pitched up into his sweet spot.
4th over: Australia 24-2 (Marsh 7, David 9) Tim David bears no scars from Jasprit Bumrah’s destruction in last summer’s Test series as the Australia batter steps back and clobbers the India quick over cover for a boundary. Even Bumrah’s yorker is of little concern as David jabs it out with ease and picks up a single.
3rd over: Australia 18-2 (Marsh 6, David 4) Two wickets in two overs for Arshdeep Singh brings Tim David in at No 4. It has been a while since the devastating middle-order batter has had an opportunity to settle into an innings rather than be on the attack from the start.
ShareWICKET! Inglis c Patel b Arshdeep 1 (Australia 14-2)
Arshdeep Singh strikes again as Josh Inglis swipes an inswinger off his pads but picks out Axar Patel on the boundary at fine leg.
2nd over: Australia 12-1 (Marsh 5, Inglis 1) Double trouble for Australia as Jasprit Bumrah takes the ball from the other end. But Mitch Marsh dispatches the first ball of the over through square leg to the rope. Bumrah has the ball moving both ways as Marsh and Inglis each add a single.
1st over: Australia 6-1 (Marsh 0, Inglis 0) Arshdeep Singh makes an immediate impact in his first match in the series with the wicket of the dangerous Travis Head. Josh Inglis joins the action earlier than expected and is happy to see out the rest of the over.
ShareWICKET! Head c Suryakumar b Arshdeep 6 (Australia 6-1)
Travis Head is swinging hard from the first ball of the over and races to six with a boundary at fine leg but skies a slog from wide outside off as the India skipper runs back from mid-off to grasp a tricky catch in windy conditions.
Travis Head is caught in the first over of the T20 between Australia and India at Bellerive Oval. Photograph: Robert Cianflone/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 03.24 EST
Arshdeep Singh has marked out his run up and Travis Head is waiting at the other end of the wicket as Australia and India get going in Hobart …
Australia have never lost a men’s T20I at Bellerive Oval in Hobart with five wins in all five of the matches they have played there, including against West Indies and Pakistan last year. This is India’s first international at the venue.
ShareIndia XI
Shubman Gill, Abhishek Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav (capt), Tilak Varma, Axar Patel, Shivam Dube, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Washington Sundar, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah.
Arshdeep Singh and Washington Sundar bolster the India attack as Harshit Rana and Kuldeep Yadav make way. Sanju Samson also falls out of the XI with Jitesh Sharma to take the gloves instead.
ShareAustralia XI
Mitchell Marsh (capt), Travis Head, Josh Inglis (wk), Tim David, Mitchell Owen, Marcus Stoinis, Matt Short, Xavier Bartlett, Nathan Ellis, Sean Abbott, Matthew Kuhnemann.
Sean Abbott replaces Josh Hazlewood as Australia are otherwise unchanged from the XI that defeated India in Melbourne on Friday night. Glenn Maxwell is back in the squad but will watch on this evening in Hobart.
ShareToss
A shock at Bellerive Oval as India finally turn the tables and win the toss for the first time in the series with Suryakumar Yadav electing to field first. The India captain expects the ball to do a bit more during the second innings. Mitch Marsh hides any displeasure with having the bat first by talking up the wicket as a “belter”.
Updated at 02.56 EST
Preamble
Martin Pegan
Hello and welcome to live coverage of the third T20 international between Australia and India at Bellerive Oval in Hobart. Australia have taken a 1-0 lead in the five-match series after a comfortable four-wicket victory on Friday night in Melbourne, while the first T20I was washed out after 9.4 overs of play.
India have found batting tricky in the 1.25 T20s that have been played in the series with only opener Abhishek Sharma looking especially dangerous, though captain Suryakumar Yadav found some form in the first game and Harshit Rana was amongst the runs in the second. But the tourists will be pleased to see the back of Josh Hazlewood with the Australia quick in imperious form but now leaving the squad to ramp up his preparations for the Ashes.
But in swings and roundabouts, Australia’s already powerful batting lineup will be bolstered by the addition of Glenn Maxwell to the squad as the all-rounder returns from a fractured wrist that has kept him sidelined for more than a month. What that means for the Australia XI will be revealed soon.
First ball will be at 7.15pm AEDT in Hobart / 1.45pm IDT. The toss and team news will be coming up shortly. Meanwhile, let us know your thoughts and predictions – shoot me an email or find me @martinpegan on Bluesky or X. Let’s get into it!