Dixit Bhargav
|Published 02/02/2023
Rohit Sharma and Steven Smith are expected to dominate the bowlers in the upcoming series.
There couldn’t have been a better start to 2023 than a four-match Test series between India and Australia beginning in the sixth week of the year. The arch-rivals, who have registered numerous mouth-watering Test matches against each other in the last decade or so, will fight it out in a series which will potentially decide the participants of ICC World Test Championship 2021-23.
Australia had made the first move with respect to announcing an 18-member squad three weeks ago. Not too far behind the opponents, India had announced a 17-member squad a couple of days later.
With less than a week remaining for the first ball to be bowled in the series, both the teams will have to adapt to the presence of injured players in their squads. As a result, fans will not get to see first-choice Playing XIs for the first Test beginning on February 9.
Notwithstanding the absence of injured cricketers, both India and Australia are still superpowers enough in this format to dominate each other across facets and register a nerve-wracking series set to be played within four-and-a-half-weeks.
For anyone wondering, yep the coffee arrived! ☕️😂 pic.twitter.com/m1O2ED9zCG
— Marnus Labuschagne (@marnus3cricket) February 1, 2023
The series will also witness the comeback of India all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja. A certainty to feature in the Indian Playing XI, Jadeja had aggravated a knee injury after his unfortunate involvement in a freak accident.
India (first two Tests) – Rohit Sharma (c), KL Rahul (vc), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, KS Bharat (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Jaydev Unadkat.
Australia – Pat Cummins (c), Ashton Agar, Scott Boland, Alex Carey, Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Peter Handscomb, Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Lance Morris, Todd Murphy, Matthew Renshaw, Steven Smith, Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Swepson, David Warner.
NOTE: Shreyas Iyer and Mitchell Starc have been ruled out of the first Test in Nagpur due to respective injuries.
Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who is currently into his fifth year as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. His first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.
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