IND vs AUS, Day 1 morning briefing: India to bat first as Nitish Reddy, Harshit Rana handed debuts

As Sriram Veera, The Indian Express’ antheral connected the crushed successful Australia notes from the stadium, “The debut caps were conscionable fixed distant to Nitish Reddy and Harshit Rana. Virat Kohli handed it to Reddy, portion R Ashwin presented it to Rana. And the Indian squad huddle breaks away.”

The study had besides mentioned that the Indian cricket team’s deliberation vessel would opt to prime off-spinner Washington Sundar implicit Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja. Washington Sundar had a singular bid against New Zealand, wherever India were humbled astatine home. In the bid astatine location against New Zealand, Washington Sundar claimed 16 wickets successful the 2 Tests helium played, including a 10-wicket lucifer haul successful Pune.

Sriram Veera’s notes from the Optus Stadium

9:19 americium (local clip successful Perth) | 6.20 americium (IST): “With 30 minutes to spell for the toss, not overmuch alteration successful the assemblage scene, I’m afraid,” writes successful Sriram Veera. “Not galore wrong and neither are they ‘streaming successful done the turnstiles’. Surprisingly. The Indian root crowds excessively haven’t yet turned up successful immoderate important numbers. Of people the authoritative commencement of play is astatine 10.20, an hr away. With the introduction and exit a breeze successful this ample stadium, 1 tin spend to travel adjacent to commencement and inactive get to your spot earlier the archetypal borderline carries done to 2nd slip.”

10:06 americium (local clip successful Perth) | 7.36 americium (IST): Finally assemblage coming in. And immoderate colour and noise.

IND vs AUS 1st Test Toss Update from Perth

India won the flip astatine Perth and chose to bat first.

IND vs AUS 1st Test transportation report

“This looks similar a bully wicket,” notes Jasprit Bumrah, who is captaining India successful the lack of Rohit Sharma. “For our batters and our squad [the WACA] was a large experience. We played a Test present successful 2018 truthful we cognize what to expect. The wicket gets quicker aft the archetypal session.”

His counterpart Pat Cummins adds: “We were 50-50, either mode we are beauteous happy. Feel good placed, beauteous fresh. Any format we (India-Australia) play seems fiercely fought. Nathan McSweeney makes our debut astatine the apical of the order.”

IND vs AUS 1st Test Final playing XIs

India Playing XI: 1 Yashasvi Jaiswal, 2 KL Rahul, 3 Devdutt Padikkal, 4 Virat Kohli, 5 Rishabh Pant, 6 Dhruv Jurel, 7 Washington Sundar, 8 Nitish Kumar Reddy, 9 Harshit Rana, 10 Jasprit Bumrah, 11 Mohammed Siraj

Australia Playing XI: Nathan McSweeney, 2 Usman Khawaja, 3 Marnus Labuschagne, 4 Steven Smith, 5 Travis Head, 6 Mitchell Marsh, 7 Alex Carey (wk), 8 Pat Cummins (capt), 9 Mitchell Starc, 10 Nathan Lyon, 11 Josh Hazlewood