Nagpur Test: The adventure of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy between India and Australia (IND vs AUS) is starting today (February 9). The first match of this four-match Test series will be played at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur. Both the teams will be on the ground at 9.30 am. The Indian team has been winning the last three Border-Gavaskar Trophy continuously. Along with this, even once in the last 18 years, the Australian team has not lost the Test series on home grounds. In such a situation, Team India seems to be dominating in this match as well.
India will get help on Nagpur’s pitch
Nagpur’s pitch will support spinners like always this time also. Here from day one, spinners will start getting help. It can be very difficult to face the spinners on the third-fourth day. Left-handed batsmen will also face difficulties here.
Actually, the off-stump area of the left-handed batsmen has been kept dry at both ends of the Nagpur pitch, that is, neither water nor rolling has been given here. In such a situation, this part will break soon during the match, due to which the left-handed batsmen will suffer more. Out of the top-8 of Australia’s team, 6 are left-handed batsmen. While only one player in the Indian playing-11 is expected to be left-handed.
Possible playing 11 of both the teams
Team India: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav/KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja, KS Bharat, R Ashwin, Kuldeep Yadav/Akshar Patel, Mohammed Shami, Mohammad Siraj.
Australia: David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Marnal Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Travis Head, Peter Handscomb, Alex Carey, Pat Cummins (c), Ashton Agar/Todd Murphy, Nathan Lyon, Scott Boland.< /p>
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