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The T20I: Australia skipper Pat Cummins has welcomed Cricket Australia's decision to pull back World Cup-winning players ahead of the third T20I against India saying, ‘players needed some time off the game’.

Seven members of the World Cup-winning team stayed back in India for a five-match T20I series against Indian side, led by Suryakumar Yadav. Surprisingly India fielded only 3 players from their World Cup squad. Suryakumar is leading the side in the T20I series while Ishan Kishan and Prasidh Krishna are the other two players.

The T20I series began just 4 days after the World Cup final in Ahmedabad. It was understandable that Australia rested most of their World Cup stars for the series opener in Visakhapatnam.