It’s going to be the ultimate challenge of the year for both teams involved. India is on a long tour down under since last month and it’s been a tough fight so far. In the ODIs, the hosts ended victorious 2-1 and in the following T20I series, India went on to win the series 2-1. Now, we’re going on to the 5-day format and it’s going to be the ultimate challenge for this series of 4 Tests, beginning with the 1st Test at Adelaide.
Australia will be confident, as they always are for home tests during this time of the year. However, India has had the advantage of the Aussies in recent test encounters and when they last met at this ground 2 years ago, India emerged as winners by 31 runs, in a well fought encounter. Keep reading for our complete PlayerzPot (Use Code “READ1234“) fantasy preview of the AUS vs IND 1st Test…
Match info
- Tournament: India tour of Australia 2020.
- Date: 17th December 2020, 9:30am IST.
- Venue: Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, Australia.
- Capacity: 53,500+
- Series status: First Test of the 4-match series.
Recent form
- IND: L L W W W
- AUS: W W W W W
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Numbers
- Last 9 Tests at this ground – Australia have lost just one.
- Last draw at this ground – 8 Test matches ago.
- Nathan Lyon – 50 wickets in only 9 Test matches here.
- Joe Burns last 4 scores for Australia A – 1, 0, 0, 4.
Australia
There are some heroes in the Aussie squad and one of them has to be Nathan Lyon who has half a century of wickets in less than 10 games at Adelaide Oval, and he’ll be one of the vital players in this series as well, only behind Warnie’s tally at this ground. Another bowler who has an impressive record here is Josh Hazlewood (26 wickets in 5 Tests) and he tormented India in the limited overs games too, with 6 scalps in 4 games.
With the bat, Australia will have troubles as David Warner has been ruled out and his opening partner Will Pucovski is out as well. This leaves Joe Burns as the only opening batman but we’re skipping him from our AUS vs IND fantasy team because he’s super short of runs. Instead, we’ll pick Marcus Harris who hit a big 239 in a recent FC game. Slotted to bat in the middle, Marnus Labuschagne is not someone you want to leave out either.
India
He’s only going to be in this series for one Test and you’d think Virat Kohli would want to make it count. With 431 runs in 3 games here, Kohli has a century in every match he’s played here and given he didn’t have an ODI or T20I century in 2020, he’d want to finish on a high in this format. Wriddhiman Saha or Rishabh Pant? This is the million dollar question and while I like Saha, Pant’s century in the practice game gives him the edge.
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One of the team in other formats of the game, Ravichandran Ashwin will be wanting to impress everyone as he returns to represent India in the longest format. He had 2 wickets and two failures with the bat in his only practice match and is worth picking in your PlayerzPot (Use Code “READ1234“) fantasy team. Apart from him, Hanuma Vihari is someone you should pick because he has played in Australia before and will contribute in both departments.
Australia vs India – 1st Test 2020/21 Betting
Australia vs India 2020 – 1st Test betting
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Australia Squad
Tim Paine (C), Marnus Labuschagne, Pat Cummins, Joe Burns, Cameron Green, Marcus Harris, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Moises Henriques, Nathan Lyon, Michael Neser, James Pattinson, Steven Smith, Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Swepson, Matthew Wade, David Warner.
India Squad
Virat Kohli (C), Ajinkya Rahane, Mayank Agarwal, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Cheteshwar Pujara, KL Rahul, Wriddhiman Saha, Navdeep Saini, Prithvi Shaw, Shubman Gill, Hanuma Vihari, Umesh Yadav, Rishabh Pant.
AUS vs IND fantasy team
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