IND vs AUS: After the crushing defeat against New Zealand, now Team India has to play a Test series against Australia. Australia has announced its team for the first Test match to be played against India. Australia has given a chance to two new faces in the team. Wicketkeepers Josh English and Nathan McSweeney have been included in the Australian team for this test match. The first Test match between India and Australia will be played in Perth from 22 November. Australia will be captained by Pat Cummins while the Indian team has already been announced under the leadership of Rohit Sharma.
Expressed confidence in senior players
Australia has again retained confidence in most of its senior players for the series against India. Apart from captain Pat Cummins, the fast bowling front for Australia will be handled by Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc. Stock Boland has also been included in the team as the fourth fast bowler. The selectors have once again placed faith in Nathan Lyon for spin bowling. All-rounder Mitchell Marsh will also play a supporting role.
There will not be much change in the batting order
Nathan McSweeney has been given a chance for the first time from Australia. He can be seen making his debut in the Perth Test. However, it is not expected that there will be much change in Australia’s batting order. Usman Khawaja, Travis Head, Steve Smith and Maren Labuschagne have once again been given a chance in the team to counter the Indian bowlers. All these players have been known for their excellent batting.
Experts say that the selectors seem to have selected wicketkeeper batsman Jose English for a double role. If the team needs, he can be tried as a reserve batsman. However, the responsibility of regular wicketkeeper will be on the shoulders of Alex Carey only.
Pressure on both teams to perform better
There will be pressure on both the teams in this series for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. The New Zealand team has won 3-0 during the recently played Test series in India. In such a situation, the Indian team led by Rohit Sharma has a big challenge to improve its performance. Team India’s batting has proved to be a huge flop against New Zealand and due to this, other senior batsmen including Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli will have to show their strength against Australia.
On the other hand, the Australian team will also look under pressure because the Australian team has not been able to win the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in the last 10 years. During the last two series, Team India had won and won the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. In such a situation, the Australian team led by Pat Cummins will also have a big challenge to stop India from scoring a hat-trick. Before the tour of Team India, captain Cummins has expressed his intention to perform brilliantly.
Australia (first test match team)
Pat Cummins (captain), Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan McSweeney, Steve Smith, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey, Josh Hazlewood, Josh Inglis, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Starc, Scott Boland.
indian test team
Rohit Sharma (captain), Jasprit Bumrah (vice-captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Sarfaraz Khan, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Dhruv Jurel (wicketkeeper), R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Siraj. , Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar. Reserve: Mukesh Kumar, Navdeep Saini, Khaleel Ahmed.