Australia vs India, 3rd Test: Preview, Dream11 and stats

With Joe Burns dropped, the Aussies could welcome David Warner and Will Pucovski.

It remains to be seen whether the two come in and open, which could also see Matthew Wade sit out.

For India, Umesh Yadav was ruled out of the series. One between Shardul Thakur, Navdeep Saini, and T Natarajan could take his place.

Rohit Sharma is likely to replace Mayank Agarwal.

Both teams need to step up and deliver at the SCG with so much at stake.

The hosts need a drastic improvement in their batting. They have breached the 200-run mark only once so far.

The focus will be on Steve Smith, who is yet to get going.

Meanwhile, India need to keep the pressure on with the ball.

The batting needs improvement too.

Dream11 team prediction: Warner, Gill, Smith, Rahane (c), Labuschagne (vc), Pant (wk), Cummins, Ashwin, Starc, Bumrah, Siraj.

Australia predicted starting XI: Pucovski, Warner, Smith, Labuschagne, Travis Head, Green, Tim Paine (c/wk), Lyon, Starc, Cummins, Hazlewood.

India predicted starting XI: Gill, Rohit, Pujara, Rahane, Vihari, Pant (wk), Jadeja, Ashwin, Bumrah, Siraj, Saini/Natarajan/Shardul.

The match is set to start at 5:00 AM IST on Thursday.

One can watch the match live on the Sony Ten Network, besides streaming the same on Sony LIV app (paid subscription).

SCG will support batting at large.

One expects to see the spinners get some turn off the pitch.

We could see a bit of rain on the first two days.

Nathan Lyon (394) needs six wickets to get past the mark of 400. He could become only the third Aussie bowler to achieve this feat.

Mitchell Starc (252) needs eight wickets to surpass Jason Gillespie (259). With this, he can become the eighth-highest wicket-taker for Australia.

India's spin ace R Ashwin (375) is two shy of getting past former WI legend Malcolm Marshall (376).