Archie Schiller, a seven-year-old leg-spinner, has joined the Australian cricket team ahead of the third Test match of the series against Virat Kohli and co. Schiller has already joined the squad and he also trained with the team during the practice session.
Meanwhile, the series between India and Australia is level at 1-1 with both the teams winning a game each.
The series kicked off with India delivering the first blow as the visiting team won the first Test by a margin of 31 runs. Batting first, Virat Kohli and co-scored 250 runs in reply to Australia were dismissed on 235.
India scored 307 runs in the second innings, asking the hosts to chase down a target of 323 in the final innings of the game, which they failed to chase.
In the second game, Australia batted first and posted a total of 326 in reply to which India scored 283.
Australia put up 243 runs in the third innings of the game, asking India to chase 287. After a poor run from openers and middle-order, India was bowled out on 140, thus losing the game.
The young bowler also bowled during the next session of the Australian cricket team. Archie was present during an event recently where he also met Virat Kohli and Tim Paine.
Schiller was informed about his inclusion in the team in the month of October when Australian team was in UAE, facing Pakistan.
The leggie had then told Justin Langer, Australia's head coach, that he would get Virat Kohli out. In a talk with Cricket.com.au, it was also revealed that Archie wants to captain Australia.
This is the third and last match of the series and now both teams wanted to win the series as the losing team will also lose the chance to win the series from that point.
The two squads are as follows:
Australia squad: Tim Paine (c, wk), Josh Hazlewood (VC), Mitch Marsh, Pat Cummins, Aaron Finch, Peter Handscomb, Marcus Harris, Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Nathan Lyon, Shaun Marsh, Peter Siddle, Mitchell Starc, Archie Schiller.
India squad: Virat Kohli (c), Murali Vijay, KL Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Hardik Pandya, Hanuma Vihari, Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant (wk), Parthiv Patel (wk), Ravi Ashwin, Ravi Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
