Australia v India: third one-day international – live!

1st over: Australia 1-0 (Carey 1, Finch 0) Inches away from a duck for Finch! The final ball of Bhuvi’s over caught the Australian captain’s outside edge, falling just short of Rohit at first slip. Earlier, he was hit on the pad when shouldering arms, prompting an unsuccessful appeal from the bowler. All happening.

The players are back on the field! Hurrah! Bhuvi to continue at Finch with Australia 1-0 after two balls when the rain came. Let’s try this again: PLAY!

Play to resume at 1:55pm. No overs have been lost so the dinner break has been reduced to 30 minutes

From where I’m sitting, it looks like the rain has stopped. In turn, the umpires are on their way to the middle, presumably to order that the covers be taken off.

If I was on the 1s and 2s right now, this is where I’d take it.

Would you believe it. Carey was off the mark to third man first ball with a nice little steer, Finch defended the second… then the rain came tumbling down.

The players are on the field. Bhuvi has the ball for India, running in from the Members End. He’ll be delivering at Alex Carey to begin. PLAY!

Yup, play is officially delayed. If no further rain, they will be on at 1:30pm. Meanwhile, a very good start from the Cricket Ground DJ, who has had a blinder during this series.

Nothing official, but the hessian cover is back on. So, that’ll almost certainly make it a late start. It’s going to be one of those days, I’m afraid.

Three changes for India. Siraj has been dropped for new all-rounder Vijay Shankar, Chahal the leggie replaces Kuldeep and Jadhav is in for the out of sorts Rayudu.

India: Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli (c), MS Dhoni (wk), Kedar Jadhav, Dinesh Karthik, Vijay Shankar, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Yuzvendra Chahal

Justin Langer is on Fox Cricket. He notes that India and England have “some of the all time great players” in their team at the moment. “Hopefully, by the time we get to the World Cup we’ll have a settled team and we’ll give it a good crack.”

Interesting question from Adam Gilchrist at the end about the number of interviews that he now has to do as a result of the new broadcast deal. “It is like the Truman Show,” he says.

Aaron Finch says that Australia would have bowled too. He confirms the inclusions of Stanlake and Zampa. “It might nibble a touch but it could be a bit on the slower side early,” the captain adds. “I would have bowled but we are not too disappointed.”

Australia: Alex Carey (wk), Aaron Finch (c), Usman Khawaja, Shaun Marsh, Peter Handscomb, Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Jhye Richardson, Billy Stanlake, Peter Siddle, Adam Zampa

“It is going to be overcast and with rain it could be stop-start so as batsmen you are never in,” explains Virat Kohli. “So that’s the thinking behind it.” Teams shortly.

Rain has delayed the toss. If there is no further rain, it will be held at 1pm. But play will still start, in theory, at 1:20pm.

The pitch. Which, I should add, is now looking ready for play with the stumps quickly inserted, getting a bit of treatment from the ground staff now. Maybe we will start on time. If so, the toss will take place in a few minutes from now.