Australia won the toss and have chosen to bat first against India in the first semifinal of the ICC Champions Trophy at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium in the UAE today.

The Aussies are expecting the ball to take turn in the Dubai wicket and have made two changes to strengthen their spin attack, bringing in Cooper Connolly for Matt Short and Tanveer Sangha for Spencer Johnson.

Connolly is a batting all-rounder who can bowl some left-arm spin and Sangha is a leg-spinner. They also have leg-spinner Adam Zampa and part-time off-spinners Glenn Maxwell and Travis Head in their XI.

India, on the other hand, are playing with an unchanged XI from their win over New Zealand in their final Group A match on Sunday, with four spin bowling options in Varun Chakravarthy, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel.

India came into the semifinal as undefeated Group A champions while Australia finished runners-up in Group B with four points from two wins and a washout.

Australia (Playing XI): Cooper Connolly, Travis Head, Steven Smith(c), Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Inglis(w), Alex Carey, Glenn Maxwell, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa, Tanveer Sangha

India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul(w), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy