These days the Indian Test team is on Australia tour. A test series of 5 matches is being played between the teams. India won the first match by 295 runs under the captaincy of Jasprit Bumrah and took a 1-0 lead in the series.
First of all, a practice match was played between the Indian team and Australia’s Prime Minister’s XI, in which they won by 6 wickets. Indian captain Rohit Sharma showed great spirit in the match. He gave up his opening position for KL Rahul.
KL Rahul can open
In the practice match, KL Rahul opened with Yashasvi Jaiswal. Both of them also opened in the first match of the Test series. Rohit Sharma did not play in the first test. But now the Captain is back. In such a situation, Rohit did not open and came to bat at number four in the practice match.
However, Rohit was a flop. He could score only 3 runs on 11 balls. The second match of the Test series will be played in Adelaide. In such a situation, it can be understood that Rahul and Yashasvi can open. Whereas Rohit can come in the middle order. In such a situation, it can be understood that KL Rahul is once again going to get the big responsibility of opening in the Pink Ball Test.
Rohit is dangerous at number six
Rohit Sharma can come to bat at number 5 or six. Shubman Gill will be at number three and Virat Kohli will be at number four. Let us tell you that Rohit has batted at number 5 in 9 test matches so far. Meanwhile, he scored 437 runs in 16 innings at an average of 29.13. His best score was 79 runs.
Whereas at number six his best average (in career) is 54.57. At number six, Rohit scored 1037 runs in 25 innings of 16 tests. During this period he has also scored 3 centuries. His best score was 177 runs. In such a situation, apart from opening, Rohit proves to be the most dangerous at number six.
This can be done between 2 players
Shubman Gill also did not play in the first test. He got injured. But Gill created a stir in the practice match. He played a match-winning inning of 50 runs in 62 balls. In such a situation, Gill’s return in the Adelaide Test seems certain. In such a situation, it will be a difficult question for captain Rohit as to who should be dropped from the playing eleven after his and Gill’s return.
Then there is a possibility that Devdutt Padikkal and Dhruv Jurel may be dropped to make way for Rohit and Gill to enter the playing eleven. The performance of both of them was not good in the Perth Test. Padikkal could not open the account in the first innings, while he scored 25 runs in the second innings. Whereas Jurel could score only 11 and 1 runs in both the innings.
Probable playing-11 for Adelaide Test
KL Rahul, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma (captain), Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Washington Sundar, Nitish Reddy, Harshit Rana, Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj.
