Since they were all out for 36 runs in the second innings and lost badly, India does not have pleasant memories of the Pink Ball Test in Australia. Rohit Sharma, the captain of India, asserts that the Indian team has a strong mentality and is not concerned about the pink ball.
Australia and India will play their second Test match in Adelaide starting on Friday, using pink balls. The Indian team will concentrate its efforts on extending its 1-0 lead in the five-match Test series. The return of regular captain Rohit Sharma, who is prepared to lead the team once more, is a relief for India. India’s memories of the Pink Ball Test in Australia are not positive because they lost badly, going out for 36 runs in the second innings.
However, Indian captain Rohit Sharma asserts that the team has a strong mentality and is not concerned about the pink ball. He added that, similar to the Perth Test, he will start in the middle order and KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal will open the innings in the second game. The Pink Ball Test is always special, and the record of India and Australia has also been better in it.
Rohit Sharma, the Indian captain, has returned
Due to the birth of his second child, Rohit Sharma was unable to participate in the Perth Test match against Australia. But even before the first game ended, he joined the Indian team and began training for the Adelaide Test. Rohit has been having trouble scoring runs and has been in poor form for a while. During the Test series against New Zealand and Bangladesh, Rohit’s bat was quiet. Rohit scored three runs while batting at number four against the Australian Prime Minister’s XI prior to the Adelaide Test but was dismissed. The Indian team will benefit from Rohit’s return, but the captain will also be hoping to get back to his best. Regarding Rohit’s record in Test matches this year, he has amassed 588 runs in 21 innings across 11 Test matches, including two hundreds and two half-centuries.
KL-Yashasvi continues to open
The Perth Test was dominated by the opening duo of Yashasvi Jaiswal and KL Rahul. In the second inning, they both scored 201 runs, setting a number of records. In SENA countries (South Africa, England, New Zealand, and Australia), Rahul and Yashasvi’s partnership is the third-largest opening partnership from India. On this list, Sunil Gavaskar and Chetan Chauhan are at the top. In 1979, they opened with a 213-run partnership at the Oval against England. In 1936, Vijay Merchant and Mushtaq Ali scored 203 runs together in Manchester against England. In Australia, this is the sixth-largest opening pairing for a foreign opening pair.
The performance of India in the Pink Ball Test
To date, India has participated in four day-night Test matches. Three of these have been won, and one has been lost. Seventy-five percent of the day-night Test matches have been won by Team India. Four years ago, in Adelaide, the Indian team lost their only Test match. This was India’s first Test match during their 2020–21 tour of Australia. This resulted in a humiliating eight-wicket loss for Virat Kohli’s team, India.
In 2019, India defeated Bangladesh by 46 runs in their first day-night Test match. The game took place at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens. After playing Australia in 2020, Team India went on to defeat England by 10 wickets in a day-night Test match in Ahmedabad in February 2021, followed by a 238-run victory over Sri Lanka in Bengaluru in March 2022. In the day-night test, India’s highest score was 347/9. Against Bangladesh, Team India scored this many runs. In contrast, the lowest score against Australia is 36 runs. Team India wants to move on from the 2020 loss and start over. They want to win Adelaide like they did Perth.
India’s playing-11
Everyone will be watching to see how the Indian team’s playing eleven performs in this game. Shubman Gill, who was unable to play in the Perth Test due to injury, has also returned for this match alongside Rohit Sharma. The competition for the starting eleven has now become more intriguing with the arrival of these two. Although India has not made an announcement, we are informing you of the potential starting eleven. Since Rohit has already stated that he will bat in the middle order, it is obvious that Gill will bat at number three, Rahul-Yashsavi at the top, and Kohli at number four. Rishabh Pant, a wicketkeeper batsman, will be at number six, while Rohit will be at number five. Fast bowler Harshit Rana can be positioned at number nine, Jasprit Bumrah at number ten, Washington Sundar, the only spinner, at number eight, all-rounder Nitish Reddy at number seven, and Mohammad Siraj at number eleven.