AUS Vs IND: Australia and India will play a five-match red ball series from 22nd November 2024 at Optus Stadium in Perth. The Aussies and the Men in Blue will play a red ball match against each other after the finals of the World Test Championship in 2023. Australia won that finale, and they are again in the number one position in the current points table.
India, on the other hand, needs to make a comeback from their 0-3 whitewash by New Zealand in a Test series played at home. The Blues will have to win four matches on this tour to qualify for the WTC 2025 finals, which will be played at Lords. India’s win in the four games on this tour looks highly impossible because the Aussies rule the game at their den.
AUS Vs IND: Match Details –
Match – 1st Test Match Between AUS Vs IND
Venue – Optus Stadium in Perth
Day and Date – Friday, 22nd November 2024 to Tuesday, 26th November 2024
Match Timings – 7.50 AM Indian Standard Time (IST), 2.20 AM GMT and 10.20 AM Local
Live Streaming – Disney+Hotstar
Television Channel – Star Sports India Network
AUS Vs IND: What Will Be India’s Playing XI Without HITMAN And Prince In The 1st Red Ball Match In Perth?
Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill will miss the first Test match at Perth, which starts in two days. HITMAN wants to be with his family after the birth of his child, and Shubman Gill will miss the opening encounter because the Prince has fractured his thumb while practising in nets. India doesn’t have Ajinkya Rahane and Chesteshwar Pujara on this tour to Australia in 2024/2025.
After being bundled out for just 36 runs in the second match which was a Pink Ball affair, India won that series under the calm and inspirational leadership of Jinx in the 2021 red ball series. Pujara was the second and overall fourth-highest run-getter and Rahane was the third and overall fifth highest run scorer in that four-match red ball series.
India can either pick Abhimanyu Easwaran as an opening batter in the 1st match or the team management can even ask KL Rahul to open the innings with Jaiswal because KL has also batted at the top position and he has scored runs as an opening batter as well.
Dhruv Jurel is the perfect pick for India in the number three position. The keeper batter did well in the second match with the junior India A team. He scored half-centuries in both the innings of the second match played at Melbourne Cricket Ground.
Nitish Kumar Reddy should make his Test debut in Perth and be retained for the whole series because he is the only pace-bowling all-rounder in the team, and his addition will make the team bat deep. In the spin department, Ash and Jaddu hold their places in the playing XI for the first match and the whole five-match series.
AUS Vs IND: Predicted, Probable, Playing XI Of India In The 1st Test Match –
India: Yashaswi Jaiswal, KL Rahul/Abhimanyu Easwaran, Dhruv Jurel, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (WK), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Jasprit Bumrah (C), Mohammed Siraj and Akash Deep.
AUS Vs IND: Australia’s Predicted, Probable, Playing XI For The 1st Test Match At Perth –
The Aussies almost have the same team for the opening Test match that played their last red-ball match versus India in the WTC Final last year in 2023. Only Cameron Green is out of the squad and he has been replaced with Mitchell Marsh as a fast-bowling all-rounder.
Australia: Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey (WK), Pat Cummins (C), Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon and Scott Boland.
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