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Rohit Sharma press conference: The second Test of India-Australia Border Gavaskar Trophy is starting from 6th December in Adelaide. Now Rohit’s ‘hit’ plan for Adelaide has come to light. The captain has cleared the confusion regarding the opening. Rohit Sharma will play in the middle order in the Pink Ball Day Night Test. On the other hand, KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal will open. Team India captain addressed the press conference today before the Adelaide Test. Where he has made it clear that KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal will open and I will play somewhere else.
In such a situation, it is believed that Rohit Sharma can land at number six. He last batted at number six in the Melbourne Test against Australia which started on 28 December 2018. Then he played innings of 63 and 5 runs. Team India won that test match by 137 runs.
37-year-old Rohit, ranked sixth, has scored 1037 runs in 25 innings of 16 Tests at an average of 54.57. He has scored 3 centuries and 6 half-centuries in this sequence. His highest score was 177 runs.
Why will Rohit play in the middle order?
Rohit Sharma is making a comeback in the Adelaide Test, while on the other hand, Shubman Gill, who was out of the first Test due to injury, is also sure to play. The Indian team scored 295 runs in the first test in Perth. In that match, in the absence of Rohit, KL Rahul had opened with Yashasvi Jaiswal. Rahul scored 26 and 77 runs as an opener in Perth.
Whereas, after being out for 0 runs in the first innings, Jaiswal scored a brilliant 161 runs in the second innings. In such a situation, removing Rahul and Yashasvi from the opening may be counterproductive. For this reason, Rohit himself has decided to enter the middle order.
In that match, KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal became the first Indian opening pair to score 200 runs in a Test innings in Australia. Overall this was the first time. Both added 201 runs for the first wicket.
Highest opening runs for India among SENA countries
13 – Sunil Gavaskar, Chetan Chauhan vs England, The Oval, 1979
203 – Vijay Merchant, Mushtaq Ali vs England, Manchester, 1936
201 – Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul vs Australia, Perth (Optus), 2024
191 – Sunil Gavaskar, Kris Srikkanth vs Australia, Sydney, 1986
165 – Sunil Gavaskar, Chetan Chauhan vs Australia, Melbourne, 1981
Boland returns to Australian team
Scott Boland is returning to the Australian team for the Adelaide Test. Boland played his last Test match in the Ashes series last year. He will replace Josh Hazlewood in the team, who was injured during the first match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series in Perth. Pat Cummins said that Mitchell Marsh will be fit to bowl in the day-night Test to be held in Adelaide.
Australia’s playing eleven for the second test: Usman Khawaja, Nathan McSweeney, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey (wk), Pat Cummins (c), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Scott Boland.
India’s probable playing eleven for Adelaide Test: Rohit Sharma (captain), Jasprit Bumrah (vice-captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Mohammed Siraj, Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar.