High Risk-Good Returns

Shardul Thakur: Has picked up at least a wicket in each of his 7 T20Is played this year (Total 13 wickets); watch out for him if he makes the Playing XI

Glenn Maxwell: Has a great record against IND in T20Is and also had a phenomenal ODI series; but failed to make a mark in the 1st T20 and IPL earlier.

X-Factor Picks

Shikhar Dhawan: Had a brilliant IPL with the bat; also in his 2 matches at Sydney he has scored 26 and 41 runs.

Moises Henriques: Has picked up 3 wickets and scored 112 runs against India in T20Is (4 matches).

Adam Zampa: Has picked up 9 wickets in 7 matches this year in T20Is with being wicketless in only 1 match.

T Natarajan: Had an impressive debut with 3/30 and before that had a great IPL.

Must Have

KL Rahul: He is in form of his life scoring 374 runs in 8 matches this year; scores of 51, 45, 39, 27, 57*, 56, 54 and 45.

Yuzvendra Chahal: Has picked at least a wicket in 10 out of his last 11 T20 matches played including a 3-fer in the recent match (total 16 wickets). 

Virat Kohli: Has a great record in Australia (326 runs in 8 inns at an avg of 65 and SR of 144); his scores at Sydney read 61*, 50 and 22.

D’Arcy Short: Scores of 34, 40, 37 and 33 in his last 4 T20I matches (all are vs IND); he also had a phenomenal BBL 2019-20

Aaron Finch: Has scores of 35, 39, 40, 46, 55, 14 and 42 in all T20 internationals played this year.

Squads:

Australia Squad: Aaron Finch (c), Matthew Wade (wk), D Arcy Short, Steven Smith, Glenn Maxwell, Moises Henriques, Sean Abbott, Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Swepson, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon, Alex Carey, Daniel Sams, Andrew Tye, Marnus Labuschagne, Marcus Stoinis

India Squad: KL Rahul (wk), Virat Kohli (c), Shikhar Dhawan, Sanju Samson, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Washington Sundar, Deepak Chahar, Mohammed Shami, T Natarajan, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah, Shardul Thakur, Shreyas Iyer, Mayank Agarwal, Navdeep Saini