Overview
- First ball is scheduled for 3:00 PM IST at the Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Stadium, with all 15,087 tickets sold.
- Live coverage in India will air on Star Sports with streaming on JioHotstar, while viewers in Australia can stream on Amazon Prime Video.
- Forecasts indicate roughly a 25% chance of rain in Visakhapatnam, raising the prospect of brief interruptions.
- Australia arrive as defending champions and remain unbeaten this tournament after two wins and a washout, having also won the recent ODI series in India 2–1.
- India target fixes to a misfiring top order and may reassess balance after the South Africa defeat, as Alyssa Healy says collapses are not a worry but a trend to rectify.