Australia Playing XI for 1st Test vs India, Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024: Australia is expecting India in the first Test of the 2024 Border Gavaskar Trophy at Optus Stadium, Perth, from November 22. Anyway, this is the start of the five-match rubbers, which have not been played between these two countries since season 1991/92. Australia, of course, is keen to put an end to surrendering to India; they lost the last four series, of which two were at home.
Australia’s squad stays pretty muscular, though they will lose all-rounder Cameron Green to back surgery. The team will depend on experienced players like the skipper, Pat Cummins, and also a couple of senior batsmen Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne to turn things around in the team’s favor. India is suffering a series whitewash at the hands of New Zealand, and without regular captain Rohit Sharma and young opener Shubman Gill injured, they may well see the visitors benefiting from the format change. Australia’s Likely Playing XI:
- Openers: Some examples are Nathan McSweeney and Usman Khawaja McSweeney coming into the side to replace Smith at the top of the order and will have impressive current form, scoring six hundred in the last two years. Still, Khawaja, though he has suffered a slump in form this year, is the main engine at the top.
- Middle Order and Allrounders: Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Travis Head, Mitch Marsh, Alex Carey (WK). Labuschagne has been averaging an astonishing 103 with the Optus; Smith has been doing well with the bat at No. 4 and has a high average against India. That touch of aggression is going to be necessary from Head, and having Marsh as a batsman and an additional fourth seamer brings more variety. Carey will be very useful with the bat as well as the gloves.
Bowlers: Pat Cummings (C), Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc Cummins is the key aggressor, and she has been outstanding at Optus. Starc boasts the sixth-best bowling average in Tests at the venue and will again be handy against India’s top-six. Lyon, who took 121 wickets at home against India, and Hazlewood’s line and length will form the core of Aussie bowling.
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INDIA PREDICTED XI
Yashasvi Jaiswal, Abhimanyu Easwaran, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wk), Dhruv Jurel, Ravindra Jadeja, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Jasprit Bumrah (c), Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep.
INDIA SQUAD
Rohit Sharma (c), Jasprit Bumrah (vc), Ravindra Jadeja, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Sarfaraz Khan, Virat Kohli, Prasidh Krishna, Ravichandran Ashwin, Rishabh Pant (wk), KL Rahul, Harshit Rana, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Shubman Gill, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Mohammed Siraj, Washington Sundar.
