India vs Australia: Schedule, venues, squads, live streaming and everything else you need to know about T20I series

India and Australia are set to meet on the cricketing field less than a week after their showdown in the ICC World Cup final in front of more than a lakh fans at Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium. The Men in Blue have opted to exempt a number of their players who finished runners-up in the showpiece event from the T20I series with only a handful from the World Cup squad featuring in this series. For Australia, however, it’s the other way round with a majority of their World Cup squad staying back in India despite having been in the country since September and having also spent the months of February and March playing the Border-Gavaskar Trophy and three ODIs. Only a handful of players, including skipper Pat Cummins, flew out of the country and were met with a lukewarm response back home, mainly due to the fact that the entire squad did not travel back home together. The five T20Is, however, will be significant to both India and Australia in their preparation for another World Cup — the one in the shortest format that the West Indies and USA will jointly host next summer. And given the focus will now be shifting firmly to the T20 format from ODIs, both India and Australia will have a bit of a headstart compared to most of the other teams. Preview | SKY-led India seek fresh start after heartbreak as focus shifts to T20Is   Ahead of the opening game of the series, we bring to you the full schedule, venues, live streaming and more information: Venues: The opening match of the five-T20I series will take place at Visakhapatnam’s ACA-VDCA Stadium, which was one of the venues in the three-ODI series in March that the Men in Blue ended up losing. The other matches of the series will take place at the following venues: Greenfield International Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram, Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati, Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium in Raipur and the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. Schedule: The full schedule of the series is as follows: Thursday, 23 November: 1st T20I in Visakhapatnam Sunday, 26 November: 2nd T20I in Thiruvananthapuram Tuesday, 28 November: 3rd T20I in Guwahati Friday, 1 December: 4th T20I in Raipur Sunday, 3 December: 5th T20I in Bengaluru India vs Australia Head-to-Head in T20Is: India and Australia have squared off in 26 T20Is, and the Men in Blue lead the Aussies 15-10 with one match ending in a washout. Live coverage: The India-Australia T20I series will be telecast on Sports18 and Sports18 HD. For those without a cable or DTH subscription, one can simply tune into the live stream on the JioCinema app. Squads: India: Suryakumar Yadav (c), Ruturaj Gaikwad (vc), Ishan Kishan, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Shivam Dube, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan, Mukesh Kumar. Shreyas Iyer (4th and 5th T20Is) Australia: Matthew Wade (c), Jason Behrendorff, Sean Abbott, Tim David, Nathan Ellis, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Spencer Johnson, Glenn Maxwell, Tanveer Sangha, Matt Short, Steve Smith, Marcus Stoinis, David Warner, Adam Zampa.