{"id":224411,"date":"2025-10-25T09:30:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T09:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/224411\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T09:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T09:30:18","slug":"sydney-odi-sold-out-fans-brace-for-virat-kohli-and-rohit-sharmas-last-dance-down-under-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/224411\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney ODI sold out! Fans brace for Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma&#8217;s last dance Down Under | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/team-india.jpg\" alt=\"Sydney ODI sold out! Fans brace for Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma's last dance Down Under\" title=\"Team India (Pic credit: BCCI)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Team India (Pic credit: BCCI) Sydney is set for a full house on Saturday as Cricket Australia confirmed that tickets for the third and final ODI between India and Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground have officially sold out. The 48,000-capacity venue will be packed to the brim, with fans eager to witness what is widely expected to be the final Australian appearance of Indian stalwarts <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/virat-kohli\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Virat Kohli<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/rohit-sharma\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rohit Sharma<\/a>.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@toisports\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" target=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">SUBSCRIBE NOW!<\/a>With India not scheduled to play another 50-over series in Australia before the 2027 World Cup, the match at the SCG is being seen as a symbolic farewell for the two greats who have defined Indian batting for more than a decade. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;India Jeetega!&#8217; Even Australia fans cheer for India before Sydney ODI<\/p>\n<p>Kohli, who has announced his retirement from Tests and T20Is, continues to feature in ODIs but has struggled in this series \u2014 registering back-to-back ducks in Perth and Adelaide.<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sydney ODI\" msid=\"124789963\" width=\"\" title=\"\" placeholdersrc=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/83033472.cms\" imgsize=\"23456\" resizemode=\"4\" offsetvertical=\"0\" placeholdermsid=\"\" type=\"thumb\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/sydney-odi.jpg\" data-api-prerender=\"true\"\/>Despite his lean patch, Kohli remains the biggest draw in world cricket. Fans swarmed the Sydney airport on Friday as <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/team-india\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Team India<\/a> arrived, eager to catch a glimpse of the 36-year-old maestro. Saturday\u2019s atmosphere promises to be electric, as thousands of Indian supporters don the blue in what could be his last outing on Australian soil.Rohit Sharma, meanwhile, showed glimpses of his best in Adelaide, battling through challenging conditions for a gritty 73 off 97 balls. Both he and Kohli returned to international action after six months, and a win in Sydney would help India avoid a 3-0 whitewash and head into the T20I series with renewed confidence.Australia, who have already sealed the series, will look to complete a clean sweep. They will be strengthened by the return of wicketkeeper Josh Inglis, while spinner Matthew Kuhnemann and allrounder Jack Edwards have been added to the squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team India (Pic credit: BCCI) Sydney is set for a full house on Saturday as Cricket Australia confirmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,8110,34396,18856,95709,101,95710,95708,27679,56,54,55,15624],"class_list":["post-224411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-australia","tag-india-vs-australia","tag-rohit-sharma","tag-scg","tag-sports","tag-sydney-cricket-ground","tag-sydney-odi","tag-team-india","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-virat-kohli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}