The Indian team will also play a tour match in Australia, in which the opposing team will be coached by Tim Paine.Image credit source: AFP
The Test series between India and Australia will begin on November 22. Within the framework of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 5 test matches will be played between the two teams, which everyone is looking forward to. Team India will leave for Australia in the next few days for this tour. After a long wait of almost 32 years, 5 test matches will be played in the series between India and Australia but team India will play a total of 6 matches in this entire tour and Cricket Australia has announced a head coach for the team against which this sixth game will be played. This head coach is none other than former Australia Test captain Tim Paine, who had to step down from the captaincy after being caught up in the obscene messages scandal.
He became head coach of this team.
The Border-Gavaskar Trophy will begin from November 22 and the first match will be played at the Optus Stadium in Perth. After this match, Team India and Australia will face each other directly in the day-night Test, which will begin from December 6 in Adelaide. So what will Team India do in the 9-day gap between the first and second Test? The answer is: one more game. Yes, the Indian team will play another match between the two Test matches, which will start from November 30 and for this Cricket Australia has appointed Tim Paine as coach.
In fact, a two-day match will be played in Canberra, the capital of Australia, from November 30 to December 1, in which the Indian team will take on the Prime Minister’s XI. It is a tradition of sorts that when a team goes to Australia for a long Test series, during that time a match is also played with the Prime Minister’s XI. The team and coaching staff for this match are also selected by Cricket Australia. The team will be announced later, but the Australian Board announced the coach before that. This responsibility has been assigned to Tim Paine, who is currently associated with Australia A.
He left the captaincy after controversy
The special thing is that team India’s last tour of Australia was in 2020-21 and at that time the captain of the Australian team was Tim Paine and then team India had won the series 2-1. Before that, also during the 2018-19 tour, Tim Paine was the captain and the Indian team had won that series as well. Penn took charge of the Australian team in 2018, when Steve Smith and David Warner were banned over the sandpaper scandal. However, he had to step down from the captaincy at the end of 2021 because he was involved in sending obscene photos and messages to a Cricket Australia employee. After a while he announced his retirement.
