India vs Australia 1st Test, Live Streaming: The 1st Test at Adelaide is going to be a historic one for India as it will be the first time India will play a day-night test in Australia. Obviously, playing the pink ball test in Australia will not be an easy task for the subcontinental team.
Virat surprisingly overturned most of the predictions about the playing XI with the inclusion of Hanuma Vihari and Umesh Yadav. Notably, practice match centurion Rishabh Pant is excluded from the squad.
Freeman was also a prolific performer with ball and bat during his 83-game first class career with South Australia.
Indian cricket team who will be starting their campaign against a qualifier team on March 6 will be confident to go through all the way this time.
“I think it is more to do with the fact that everybody have got their front-press where technically they are moving forward and it becomes a little bit difficult,” Gavaskar told reporters.
The Aussies, who had initially named David Warner, Will Pucovski and Joe Burns as openers for the first Test, suffered twin blows with Warner getting injured and Pucovski getting a blow on his head.
Green is undergoing concussion protocols after getting hit on the head during a warm-up tie against the touring Indians last Friday and had to be substituted.
The esteemed line-up includes Brazil’s three-time World Cup winner Pele and legendary Argentinian Diego Maradona, who died last month of a heart-attack.
The head coach, however, said that having played seven day-night Tests in comparison to India’s one does not give Australia any advantage over their opponents in the pink-ball fixture that begins on Thursday.
While PM Narendra Modi occupies the 17th position, he is followed by Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma. Others on the list include Katrina Kaif and Deepika Padukone. CR7 tops the list.
As known by many, MS dhoni has always been the man of few words, especially on social media sites. But former Captain still holds a large fan following on these sites.
Happy Birthday Bhaichung Bhutia: Bhutia made his mark in the early days when he, aged just 19 lead the JCT Mills to the National Football League(NFL). He was the Top scorer of the League at the time and thus also became the Player of the Year for 1996.
Pujara amassed 521 runs with three centuries and earned the Man-of-the-Series award in 2018-19 series Down Under and will once again hold the key for India as they aim to defend the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Pant scored a blistering 73-ball ton in the second innings of the pink-ball practice match at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Notably, when the last time India toured Australia, men in blue created history by defeating Kangaroos down under in Test for the very first time.
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Henriques comes in for Will Pucovski who was ruled out of the first Test after he was diagnosed with mild concussion on the final day of the first tour match.
Will Pucovski and David Warner, who seemed all set to open for Australia at the Adelaide Oval, have both been ruled out of the day-night Test which begins Thursday.
India closed the day at 386 for four with a lead of 472 runs as the Aussie attack, that included Test leg-spinner Mitchell Swepson, came under the cosh.
Bumrah, 27, hit six fours and two sixes as he shared a 71-run partnership with Mohammed Siraj for the 10th wicket to take India to 194 after they had been reduced to 123 for nine wickets in the 36th over.
Yuvraj Singh has over 10,000 international runs in over 400 appearances and has been India’s go-to player on numerous occasions.
Rohit had sustained a hamstring injury during the IPL, which led to him missing the white-ball leg of the ongoing tour. He is also out of reckoning for the first two Tests but can now be there for the last two games.
The 27-year-old said Australian bowlers have not made any specific plans for Indian batsmen and added that they will tweak the usual plans as per the situation and batsmen.
Sydney Cricket Ground, venue for the third Test, will allow 50 per cent of its total capacity on each day of the match slated to be played between January 3 to 7.
With an income of over Rs 137 crore from the T20 league, Dhoni has emerged as the highest-paid player in IPL.