India Vs Australia First Test Playing 11, debut of Nitish Kumar Reddy Harshit Rana Nathan McSweeney: The first Test of the 2024-25 Border Gavaskar Trophy begins today (November 22) at the Optus Stadium in Perth. In this match, the Indian team’s acting captain Jasprit Bumrah won the toss and decided to bat first. In this match 3 new players from India and Australia debuted. While two stalwarts like Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja were eliminated.
Team India’s only spinner specialist is Washington Sundar. In this match, Nitish Kumar Reddy and Harshit Rana made their Test debuts for the Indian team. Meanwhile, Nathan McSweeney made his red-ball cricket debut for Australia.
The special thing was that Devdutt Padikkal was given the opportunity to get the third position in the team. At the same time, Sarfaraz Khan also had no chance in the 11th over. Overall, looking at the Indian team’s eleven, one thing seemed to be that an effort was made to keep the batting line-up very strong. Harshit Rana also has the power to show Jauhar with the bat. While Team India gave a chance to Devdutt Padikkal in the number 3 team.
Overall, the Indian team squad includes Ravichandran Ashwin, Akash Deep, Sarfaraz Khan, Prasidh Krishna, Ravindra Jadeja and Abhimanyu Easwaran who are sitting on the bench for this match.
Playing 11 of the Indian team in Perth Test: KL Rahul, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Devdutt Padikkal, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (goalkeeper), Dhruv Jurel, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Harshit Rana, Jasprit Bumrah (captain), Mohammed Siraj.
Australia will play 11 in the Perth test: Usman Khawaja, Nathan McSweeney, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey (wk), Pat Cummins (c), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood
