Neither is the captain Rohit Sharma. Neither is star batsman Shubhman Gill. The first test match against Australia is about to start in Perth. Who should be kept in the playing eleven now, who can fill the place of these two properly? This question is in the mind of every Indian fan for the last 3-4 days. The Border-Gavaskar Trophy has started with a big and challenging decision for Team India as to who should be included in the batting order in the Perth Test. Different suggestions and solutions are being suggested for this and now it seems that the management of Team India has decided what the batting order will be like. Indications of this were visible from the very first practice session of Team India at Optus Stadium.
Team India, which has been practicing at the WACA Stadium in Perth since reaching Australia, started practicing from Tuesday 19 November at the Optus Stadium, where the first match of the series is to be played from Friday. Team India’s first day’s practice was affected by rain, due to which the nets session had to be stopped midway, but whatever happened before that, it gave many indications as to which teams will play in the Perth stadium on the morning of 22 November. Will enter the match wearing India’s jersey.
First indications from fielding, then batting practice
Before starting the practice of batting and bowling in the nets outside the Optus Stadium, Team India did different fielding drills in the field and the sight seen during this time gave an indication about the playing eleven of the match, especially the batting. . According to the report of Cricbuzz, when the slip cordon was made during the fielding practice, Devdutt Padikkal was on the first slip along with wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant, Virat Kohli was on the second slip, KL Rahul was on the third slip, while Yashasvi Jaiswal was on the gully position and Dhruv Jurel was once posted at Wide Gali and then at Silly Point.
This is enough to tell that not only will these players get a place in the playing eleven, but the field position can also be similar. Even after this, if some indication was needed, it was found during batting in the nets, which started after the fielding session. According to the report, the batsmen were sent in pairs in different nets, in which KL Rahul was with opener Yashasvi Jaiswal in the first net. Padikkal was with Virat in the next net, which was enough to indicate that Padikkal will play at number three in place of Shubman Gill. Rishabh Pant and Jurel were on the next net, i.e. number 5 and 6.
Easwaran will have to wait longer
All of them practiced batting for a long time in front of the bowlers, while Sarfaraz Khan and Ravindra Jadeja were practicing in the nets next to them but they were mostly facing throwdown specialists. Out of this, Jadeja is certain to play but it seems certain that Sarfaraz will sit out. While Abhimanyu Easwaran, who was taken to Australia as a backup opener, kept watching everything from a distance, it tells that at least he is not going to debut in the Perth Test and Rahul will open with Jaiswal at the Optus Stadium. There are still more than 2 days left for the Test, can Team India make any changes during this time? Now eyes will be on this only.