 "Ind Vs Aus: Before the start of the Test, Rohit told Adelaide’s plan, know which players will open")
Ind Vs Aus: The second Test of India-Australia Border Gavaskar Trophy is starting from December 6 in Adelaide. Rohit Sharma will play in the middle order in this pink-ball day-night Test. While KL Rahul and Yashshwi Jaiswal will open. Before the Adelaide Test today i.e. on December 5, the captain of Team India addressed the press conference. Where he clarified that KL Rahul and Yashaswi Jaiswal will open and they themselves will play in the middle order.
In such a situation, it is believed that Rohit Sharma can reach the sixth place. He last batted at number six in the Melbourne Test against Australia starting on December 28, 2018. Then he played an innings of 63 and 5 runs. Team India won this test match by 137 runs. The 37-year-old Rohit has scored 1037 runs at an average of 54.57 in 25 innings of 16 Test matches at number six. He has scored 3 centuries and 6 fifties in this series. Rohit’s best score was 177 runs.
Why will Rohit play in the middle order?
Rohit Sharma is returning in the Adelaide Test, while Shubman Gill, who was out of the first Test due to injury, is also sure to play. Because the Indian team won the first Test in Perth by 295 runs. In the absence of Rohit in that match, KL Rahul opened with Yashshwi Jaiswal. Rahul scored 26 and 77 runs as an opener in Perth. At the same time, Jaiswal played an excellent innings of 161 runs in the second innings after getting out for 0 runs in the first innings. In such a situation, the removal of Rahul and Yashaswi from the opening could have had an adverse effect. Due to this, Rohit himself has decided to come in the middle order. In that match, KL Rahul and Yashaswi Jaiswal became the first Indian opening pair to score 200 runs in a Test innings in Australia. Overall this is the first time it has happened. Both added 201 runs for the first wicket.
Boland’s return to the Australian team
Scott Boland will play in the Australian team in the Adelaide Test, Boland played his last Test match in the Ashes series last year. He will replace Josh Hazlewood in the squad, who was injured during the first match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series in Perth. In this match to be held in Adelaide, Pat Cummins said that Mitchell Marsh will be fit to bowl in the Adelaide Day-Night Test.
Australia’s playing XI for the second test: Usman Khawaja, Nathan McSweeney, Marnus Labushgan, Steve Smith, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey (wicketkeeper), Pat Cummins (captain), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Scott Boland.
India’s Probable Playing XI for Adelaide Test: Rohit Sharma (captain), Jasprit Bumrah (vice-captain), Yashshvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Mohammad Siraj, Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Beautiful