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India have Brahmastra of spin for Australia in traditional format rivalry

Rohit Sharma, who has proved his mettle in limited-overs cricket, will face the biggest test of his career as Test captain when the Indian team takes on Australia for the Border Gavaskar Trophy from Thursday. Will face the Brahmastra of Indian spin. In this series, which has become a legend on the cricket field, many careers will be made and many stars will also be grounded. Failure to do so may put an end to the career of many.

One of the biggest rivalries on the cricket field, this series will be closely watched by cricket fans, critics and the media. Will Rohit Sharma be able to control his urge to play a pool shot to Australian skipper Pat Cummins? How would Virat Kohli play shots in front of Ashton Agar or Nathan Lyon? Will coach Rahul Dravid prefer Suryakumar Yadav over Shubman Gill? Akshar Patel will be more useful or Kuldeep Yadav. The answers to all these questions will be found in this series.

Cummins and his team have the pain of losing the series on their own soil in the last two times (2018.19 and 2020.21) and they have come with the intention of revenge this time. Well, it won’t be that easy for them as the pitch can take a turn from day one. Series between India and Australia since 2001 have seen better cricket than the Ashes. This is a must-win series for this bunch of Australian cricket team to match the likes of Matthew Hayden, Justin Langer, Glenn McGrath or Adam Gilchrist from the 2004 team.

Steve Smith himself has said that winning a series in India is bigger than the Ashes. Rohit has missed all the Tests against the big teams due to injury or illness. Be it a series against South Africa in 2022 or a Test against England. Now the challenge before him is to take India to the World Test Championship final once again like Virat Kohli. For this, India will have to keep a margin of two matches in victory. Rohit’s Brahmastra is his spin quartet, three of whom are sure to play. Similarly, their batsmen will also have to play Lyon carefully.

No one knows how Rohit must have felt when the BCCI dropped him from the T20 captaincy after India’s debacle in the T20 World Cup last year. He doesn’t say anything in public but must be sad. Now he has this series as a way to include himself in the list of great captains. They will definitely miss Rishabh Pant and have to see how he compensates for it. Kona Bharath is effective as a wicket-keeper but it is difficult to say anything about his ability against the Australian bowling despite a triple century at Ranji level.

The Delhi bowlers troubled him a lot in the Ranji match at Kotla. Ishaan Kishan is definitely a better batsman but the team management will not want to take any risk regarding wicketkeeping as he has not even handled this responsibility in Tests. KL Rahul could be dropped but sending him at the press conference two days before the Test means his place is safe despite the poor performance. This means that one of the match winners like Gill or Suryakumar will have to sit out.

The biggest decision for Rohit will be between Akshar or Kuldeep and Akshar looks more likely. If India go with four spinners, then Ravichandran Ashwin can be handed the new ball. By the way, fast bowlers can also get reverse swing on a dry looking pitch, so in such a situation, Mohammad Shami and Mohammad Siraj will prove to be useful. Australia, on the other hand, can field Agar as Lyon’s partner because of his better batting record down the order. Scott Boland will handle the new ball along with Cummins.

Australia has four good batsmen in which David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Travis Head and Alex Kari are set to play. In the absence of Cameron Green, the spare batsman will be either Peter Handscomb or Matt Renshaw. Teams: India: Rohit Sharma (Captain), KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Shubman Gill, Ravindra Jadeja, KS Bharat, Ravichandran Ashwin, Akshar Patel, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, Suryakumar Yadav, Umesh Yadav, Jaydev Unadkat, Ishan Kishan.

Australia: Pat Cummins (captain), David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Travis Head, Alex Currie, Matt Renshaw, Peter Handscomb, Nathan Lyon, Ashton Agar, Scott Boland, Lance Morris, Mitchell Swepson, Todd Murphy, Josh Hazlewood (UN), Cameron Green (UN), Mitchell Starc (from 2nd Test). Match time: 9 am. From 30

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