Perth test between India and Australia: The Indian team is currently on a tour of Australia where it has to play a 5-match Test series under the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. The first match will be played from tomorrow (November 22) at Optus Stadium in Perth. The match will begin at 7.50 am Indian time.
The Indian team recently lost the test series against New Zealand at home by 0-3. Team morale may be broken after this clean sweep. In such a situation, they will now have to use some trick to defeat Australia at their own home. That means some special plan will have to be made and amazing performance will have to be shown.
Having defeated Australia in the last 2 tours.
India defeated Australia in the 2018-19 and 2020-21 tours. The reality is also that some of the stars who were the backbone of the Indian team are in the latter stages of their careers. The five-match series against Pat Cummins will decide the condition and direction of his future career.
Before the Test series against New Zealand, entry to the World Test Championship final for the third time seemed almost certain, but now the destination seems very far away. To do so, India will have to defeat Australia 4-0 at any cost. It seems as difficult as the Indian football team beating Brazil or Argentina in a FIFA friendly match.
However, those who know the current team closely know how this team can bounce back even under pressure. Whenever doubts have been raised about the team’s ability, it has shown its best performance.
Indian team will start again in Australia
Acting captain Bumrah said in the press conference before the first Test: “When you win, you start from scratch, but when you lose, the same thing happens.” We have not brought any cargo from India. We have learned lessons from the New Zealand series, but the conditions here are different and our results have been different here.
On the other hand, Australia is ready to take revenge for the crushing defeat suffered by India in the last five years. In the first match, India’s regular captain (Rohit Sharma), master of reverse swing (Mohammed Shami) and future captain (Shubhman Gill) will not be in front of him. Rohit is out of the first Test due to becoming a father, while Shami is not fully fit and Gill has a fractured thumb.
These Indians are at that stage of their career.
Careers are made and broken on the Australian tour. Sachin Tendulkar completed a century on the WACA field with ‘curved cracks’. Everyone saw that Dilip Vengsarkar and Krishnamachari Srikkanth had to say goodbye after the 1991-92 tour.
Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Ravichandran Ashwin are at that stage of their career where poor performance can prove costly. Kohli became ‘King Kohli’ in Australia in 2014 when he scored four centuries, while Cheteshwar Pujara and Rishabh Pant gave sleepless nights to Australian bowlers.
This will be a series where players will have the upper hand and in the first Test, Jasprit Bumrah, one of the best fast bowlers in the world, will also take charge for India. Mohammad Siraj and Akash Deep can support him in fast bowling, but Prasidh Krishna and Harshit Rana are also candidates for selection.
These Australian players can be fatal
Whatever the composition of the team, the Australian batsmen cannot take it lightly. Steve Smith’s average in the current ICC Test Championship season has been around 36, while his career average is over 56. Marnus Labuschagne’s career average is close to 50, but in the last two years has scored an average of less than 30.
Travis Head has proven to be a great challenge for India in the finals of ICC tournaments, but his average is also approaching 28 in this cycle. Except Usman Khawaja, no Australian batsman is capable of performing well and consistently. Wicketkeeper Alex Carey and captain Pat Cummins have played good innings at times.
Considering the humidity and bounce in the field for the first Test, India may field top player Ravichandran Ashwin in place of all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja. All-rounder Nitish Reddy may get a chance to play the fourth fast bowler’s role besides batting lower down the order.
Of India’s top six batsmen, three have never played in Australia and two have Test experience of just four matches. But Yashasvi Jaiswal, Devdutt Padikkal and Dhruv Jurel are confident. There will be a lot of expectations from India’s best batsman in the last five years, Rishabh Pant and the classy KL Rahul.
Indian team for Australia tour: Rohit Sharma (captain), Jasprit Bumrah (vice-captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant (goalkeeper), Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel (goalkeeper), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Siraj , Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar and Devdutt. Padikkal.
Australia’s squad for the first test: Pat Cummins (captain), Scott Boland, Alex Carey, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Marsh, Nathan McSweeney, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc.
