India defines its XI for the Adelaide Test: Shaw, Saha and Ashwin starters

Wriddhiman Saha, R Ashwin, and Prithvi Shaw have been selected to represent India in the Adelaide Test. Umesh Yadav will be the third fast bowler. These were the main questions India contemplated two days before the Test: whether to continue backing the talented Shaw, whether to play with a bowler and persist with the safest option of Ashwin, and which of the wicketkeepers should play. On the eve of the day-night Test, they resolved all the confusion by naming the XI. Shaw had been under pressure with Shubman Gill performing better in the two tour matches. However, Shaw was the opening batsman and proved in a four-run innings in New Zealand that he can be destructive. He scored 0, 19, 40 and 3 in the two tour matches, but more than the scores it was his loose shots that worried.

India anunció su XI un día antes del Test de Adelaide

Similarly, the Test’s first-choice bowler, especially with Ravindra Jadeja absent due to injury and concussion, kept his place. In the case of the wicketkeeper, India dropped the regular Pant, who has been preferred to Saha in Tests outside of Asia, where most of the wicketkeeping is done standing back. It is in India where the team management believes that Saha’s superior skills as a wicketkeeper come into play when standing up to the bowlers. The team management seems to have decided that the pink ball does a lot and will require a more established wicketkeeper. Yadav was the favorite to be India’s third fast bowler, replacing the injured Ishant Sharma. Not only does he have Test experience, this is his fourth tour of Australia, but he also impressed in the only warm-up match he played, taking 3 for 48 and 1 for 14 and also scoring useful runs in the lower order.

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