batmanbegins wrote:Jadeja back with 7fa in there first class comp. Suggest he may play 1st test.
I reckon you'll see 3 spinners for the first test. Jadeja (avg 36) and Ashwin (avg 27) bat as well as anyone on those pitches. So I would expect a 3rd spinner.
Absolutely, I think we're safe to assume Jadeja, Ashwin and Axar Patel will play in the first test along with Shami and Siraj as the two quicks, unless they want to play Kuldeep Yadav and therefore only play one quick or leave out Axar for Kuldeep.
Cameron Green faces a race against time to be ready for the opening Test against India on February 9 with a build-up of his bowling workloads the biggest challenge as he recovers from the broken finger suffered against South Africa at the MCG.
Green has been part of the Australia training camp in Sydney over the last two days and is making steady progress, but the opening match of the series in Nagpur may come too soon. He is due to see the surgeon again on Monday which will mark a month since the injury occurred with the hope that he will be told the bone has healed.
"Where he's positioned at the moment, his biggest challenge is bowling," Australia head coach Andrew McDonald said. "There is a lack of loading there, and one of the key reasons around us getting into this camp early is to make sure that we're ready to go for the rigours of what the bowling unit [is] going to encompass.
"Building confidence is the main thing, setting him up to succeed in that first Test match, having enough time, that will be the critical question."
However, if Green's bowling does not quite come up, he would be considered as a specialist batter. He showed his ability to learn quickly on the subcontinent last year with important half-centuries in Lahore and particularly Galle, where he was Player of the Match on a spiteful surface.
"We value his batting first and foremost really, he's a batter in our top six and we value that, his bowling is a bonus. A very nice bonus," McDonald said.
Brodlach wrote:Flying out tomorrow, how does a Test cricketer have a visa issue? Maybe out of date?
Something to do with being born in Pakistan is my guess
He had issues back in 2011 as well.
He was initially denied a visa to play in the T20 Champions League for NSW before representations to the Indian high commission resolved the situation.
The Dark Knight wrote:Indian batsman Shreyas Iyer will miss the first test because of a back injury.
Perfect for Shubman Gill to come back into the side.
Yep opens the door for him now.
More runs for him overnight by the way, a hundred in the T20 against NZ, he's now the fifth Indian to score a hundred in all three formats.
I just looked it up - the other four are Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, K.L. Rahul and Virat Kohli.
Was very surprised that M.S. Dhoni never hit one in T20Is (also never quite got one in well over 200 IPL games, despite averaging about 40 with S/R north of 130). I suppose he never comes in early enough to reach triple figures.
whufc wrote:Yeah i would think Gill is a certainty to open it will be one of the other openers who drop down.
For some reason i feel like Sharma spent most of his career in the middle order.....potentially Rahul did as well now that i think about it.
Just looked it up- KL Rhaul has opened in 72 of his 78 test innings Rohit Sharma has opened in 30 of his 77 test innings. Interestingly Rohit has batted in every position from 1-6 in test cricket.
whufc wrote:Yeah i would think Gill is a certainty to open it will be one of the other openers who drop down.
For some reason i feel like Sharma spent most of his career in the middle order.....potentially Rahul did as well now that i think about it.
Just looked it up- KL Rhaul has opened in 72 of his 78 test innings Rohit Sharma has opened in 30 of his 77 test innings. Interestingly Rohit has batted in every position from 1-6 in test cricket.
Yeah, i thought Rohit was a genuine middle order and then in my mind 'out of nowhere' was an opener for India's last series against us over here. I could have that completely wrong but remember being caught by surprise that he was opening against us.
