Australia Bat, Watson Replace Injured Clarke

Sydney: Australia's stand-in captain Shane Watson won the toss and chose to bat against India in the triangular series ODI at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Sunday.

Watson, playing in his comeback match for Australia after an injury-marred season, took over the captaincy after Michael Clarke pulled out with a back injury. Australia are playing with their third captain in as many games.

Clint McKay replaced fellow paceman Ryan Harris in the other change to the Australia team from Friday's three-wicket loss to Sri Lanka in Hobart.

Australian regular skipper Michael Clarke has not recovered properly from his hamstring injury although he scored a half-century in Friday's defeat against Sri Lanka.

India are playing with Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir as skipper MS Dhoni dropped the idea of rotating the top three players.

India's survival in the series at stake as the defeat against the Australia on Sunday, who were outsmarted by Sri Lanka in their previous game, means the World Cup champions will be taking an early flight home.

The Men In Blue can still make it if they win both their remaining matches, they'll surely be through with 18 points.

If they lose one of their two matches, they will require a bonus point in the other and hope that either Australia or Sri Lanka do them a favour.

If India beat Australia with a bonus point in Sydney on Sunday and lose to Sri Lanka in Hobart on Tuesday, they will have to hope for Sri Lanka to beat Australia in Hobart on Friday.

If they lose to Australia and beat Sri Lanka with a bonus point, they'll have to hope for Australia to beat Sri Lanka. In that scenario, Australia will qualify with 22 points and India and Sri Lanka will be tied with 15 points.

Teams:

India: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt & wk), Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Irfan Pathan, Umesh Yadav, Ravichandran Ashwin and Praveen Kumar.

Australia: Shane Watson (captain), David Warner, Matthew Wade (wk), Peter Forrest, David Hussey, Mike Hussey, Dan Christian, Clint McKay, Brett Lee, Ben Hilfenhaus and Xavier Doherty.

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