Australia vs India ODI Match 3 Tips - Three-zip for Australia

Jeremy Darke

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Last updated: Fri 24 Oct 2025 09:13

Jeremy Darke 24 Oct 2025

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First ball between Australia vs India is at 14.30 AEDT, Saturday, October 25th
Matt Short and Xavier Bartlett key players for upcoming match.
India struggles with bowling against potent Aus lineup.

Australia vs India ODI Match 3

Australia vs India ODI Match 3 Tips

Australia will clean sweep the Indians in the one-day series with the depth of the home side proving too much for the visitors to overcome.

Australia vs India ODI Match 3 Tips
Head to Head
Australia Form
Australia Squad
India Form
India Squad
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The Australia bowling attack has arguably never had so many weapons with a long list of quicks and spinners while also having some handy all-rounders that can not only hold their own but prove to be important takers.

The India batting group has been underwhelming but their bowling is the biggest concern in the ODI format, unable to trouble the depth of the Australian batting lineup.

Matt Short scored his biggest score in Australian colours in game two in Adelaide and is a player that grows twice the size with some confidence. I expect Short to have another good total in Game 3 scoring over his Batter Match Runs of 27.5 and will even put a unit on another half-century.

With the ball Adam Zampa was clinical in Adelaide but heading to Sydney it will be the quicks that do the damage. After being rested for the first match, Xavier Bartlett will see 10 overs for Australia and will add to the three wickets he picked up at Adelaide Oval and continuing on pace with his 3 wickets per match for Australia.

Head to Head

Australia lead the 3-match series 2-0

23-Oct-2025: Australia won by 2 wickets (with 22 balls remaining)
19-Oct-2025: Australia won by 7 wickets (with 29 balls remaining) (DLS method)

The head to battle is as close as it comes between India and Australia with either team always possessing the kit and squad to win the series. In the last 25 series between the two nations, Australia leads the count 8-7.

Australia Form

Australia wrapped up the ODI series with a superb run chase of 264 with Matt Short and Cooper Connolly digging the home side out of an early hole of 2/54 with both Mitch Marsh and Travis Head going cheaply.

Short put up his best ODI score for Australia, settling the ship with 74 runs from from 78 balls, hitting 4 fours and 2 sixes on the way. With Connolly coming in with the Aussies at 5-187 there was still work to do but the left-hander also put in his highest score for his nation scoring 61’ not out.

Adam Zampa and Xavier Bartlett did the majority of the damage with the ball in the first innings with Bartlett claiming 3/39 and Zampa going one better with 4/60 from their 10 overs bowled.

Australia Squad

Mitchell Marsh (c), Xavier Bartlett, Alex Carey, Cooper Connolly, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Matthew Kuhnemann, Mitchell Owen, Josh Philippe, Matthew Renshaw, Matthew Short, Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa

India Form

India came out and put up a very defendable total at Adelaide Oval in game two with Rohit Sharma putting instant pressure on the bowling attack for Australia, scoring 73 runs and developing a 118-run partnership with Shreyas Iyer (61 runs). However, once Axel Patel fell for 44 the tail did very little wagging in the final overs for India.

Without Mohammad Shami in the bowling attack the Indians have surprisingly struggled much more than expected. In both the opening match and the series sealing game in Adelaide.

The Indian bowlers have been unable to slow the scoring of Australia who have been able to maintain a run-per-ball run rate in both matches.

India Squad

Shubman Gill (capt), Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Harshit Rana, Mohammed Siraj, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Dhruv Jurel and Yashasvi Jaiswal