Australian skipper Pat Cummins. (FILE)
Ahead of the Border Gavaskar Trophy, the Australian players were asked if fixed a accidental which Indian subordinate volition they slot into the Australian team. While the likes of Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Marsh and Travis Head picked astatine slightest 1 player, skipper Pat Cummins said nary 1 successful the Indian squad volition slot into this Aussie side.
“No one,” Cummins said erstwhile helium was posed with the question by Fox Cricket.
“It’d beryllium a beauteous beardown batting lineup having Smith, Marnus and Virat successful your apical order,” Lyon said portion Marsh picked Rishabh Pant.
Head, meanwhile, picked India skipper Rohit Sharma and Scott Boland chose Jasprit Bumrah.
The satellite No. 2 India are heading into the five-Test Border-Gavaskar series, starting successful Perth connected Friday, pursuing their whitewash astatine location against New Zealand, which ended their 12-year unbeaten tally successful their ain backyard.
India are already up against it with a thumb fracture ruling retired top-order batsman Shubman Gill from the archetypal Test. Gill fractured his thumb erstwhile helium was fielding during a lucifer simulation league successful Perth connected Saturday.
India’s batting line-up volition decidedly spot changes with KL Rahul acceptable to marque it to the playing XI owed to Gill’s injury. India volition besides beryllium without skipper Rohit Sharma who volition miss the archetypal Test owed to the commencement of his 2nd child.
Bumrah, the vice-captain of the team, volition instrumentality implicit the reins successful Rohit’s absence. Rohit is acceptable to play the 2nd match, a pink-ball Test, that begins successful Adelaide connected December 6.
Also, Dhruv Jurel, the wicket-keeper, whitethorn get a look successful purely arsenic a batsman. Jurel made 80 and 64 successful a circuit crippled against Australia A and looked the astir assured batsman astatine the crease.