India vs Australia 3rd ODI: Four Saurashtra players in India squad for Rajkot Match - Know Why

India are playing Australia in the third and final ODI in Rajkot on Wednesday (September 27). The Men in Blue already have a 2-0 lead in the series and have made a lot of changes for this match.

The team management rested many players ahead of this match, as the likes of Shubman Gill, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Shami and others were rested for this match. On the other hand, the likes of Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Mohammed Siraj and Jasprit Bumrah have come back into the team.

But ahead of the match, the Indian team experienced a shortage in squad numbers. Apart from Ishan Kishan and Ravichandran Ashwin, none of the non-playing players travelled to Rajkot for this match, and thus team India only had 13 members coming into the match on Tuesday.

Ishan Kishan also fell ill ahead of this match. Captain Rohit Sharma confirmed on toss that Kishan was struggling with viral fever.

India call up four Saurashtra players

That required the team management to call up four Saurashtra players on emergency to fill in adequate numbers.

Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Prerak Mankad, Viswaraj Jadeja and Harvik Desai - all have been called up to join the Indian team. All four players helped the team in fielding and carried the drinks during team India's bowling.