Welcome to news.com.au’s dwell protection of the opening Test between Australia and India from Nagpur.
Australia can be hoping for a change in fortune after an unpleasant opening day that noticed them bowled out for a bleak 177 after dropping the ultimate 5 wickets for simply 15 runs.
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India in the meantime seemed like they have been batting on a unique pitch as captain Rohit Sharma slammed 56 off 69 balls on the day to guide India to 1/77 at stumps and a commanding place.
Debutant Todd Murphy offered the one glimmer of hope on the day for the Aussies, selecting up his first Test wicket within the second final over of the day as he despatched KL Rahul on his means.
India will look to place the vacationers additional to the sword after they resume on the crease at 3pm (AEDT).
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2.15pm – India reply to damning footage
Nothing to see right here people, only a participant consumer ache aid cream on his finger. Not the ball.
Damning footage led to eyebrows being raised through the opening day’s play when Ravindra Jadeja seemed to be rubbing one thing on the ball earlier than certainly one of his overs.
The TV broadcast captured Jadeja showing to both take one thing off the hand of certainly one of his teammates, or from inside his hand, together with his proper hand.
He then rubbed his palms and finger close to and across the ball although it was unsure what precisely was occurring.
But Indian officers have tried to downplay the second, saying he was merely “applying pain-relief cream to the index finger of his bowling hand”, based on ESPNcricinfo.
“While the incident triggered debates on social and mainstream media, it is learned that the Australia team had not brought the matter to the attention of the match referee,” the report stated.
“According to the playing conditions, the match referee can independently probe such incidents without needing a complaint to be lodged. And under the Laws of Cricket, the bowler needs the umpire’s permission to apply any sort of substance on their hands to ensure the condition of the ball remains unaffected.”
12.30pm – Clarke ‘bewildered’ by Head omission
Former Test skipper Michael Clarke couldn’t consider his ears when news filtered out that Travis Head, the quantity 4 ranked batter on the earth, had been neglected of the Aussie staff for the First Test.
The bombshell resolution to go away out the person who was arguably Australia’s greatest batter of the summer season despatched shockwaves across the cricket group.
Steve Waugh was flabbergasted, Matthew Hayden was equally perplexed as cricket followers blew up on the resolution.
Clarke weighed in and was simply as dumbfounded by what the Australian selectors had finished.
“The only thing I can’t get my head around is the selectors, Pat Cummins, Andrew McDonald … why they dropped Travis Head?” Clarke stated on Big Sports Breakfast.
While the previous skipper stated he might perceive placing Handscomb into the staff at No. 5 forward of Head at No. 6, it was the inclusion of Renshaw that baffled him.
Renshaw has been opening the batting for Queensland through the Sheffield Shield season, however Clarke says that in comparison with batting within the center order in India was “like speaking French compared to speaking English”.
“I can’t understand it. I can’t comprehend it,” he stated.
“The other thing, Travis Head bowls. He bowls right arm off spin. His bowling in India will be very, very handy. I’m so confused and bewildered by that decision.
“The other thing, if you’re not going to pick the No. 4 best batter in the world for the First Test match, what is he doing on the tour?
“With only four bowlers, Travis Head as an all-rounder is a no-brainer for me.”
Another former Australian Test skipper nonetheless wasn’t as shocked by the omission.
Ricky Ponting informed the ICC Review podcast that whereas he might perceive the dismay on the choice from some corners of Australian cricket, the writing had been on the wall for Head’s omission.
“The more I thought about it, the fact that they played Matt Renshaw in Sydney to me meant they probably had other plans in mind for him,” Ponting stated.
“Obviously, the most immediate plan was for him to bat in the middle order for Australia in this Test series against India.
“And when you look at that, if they’re going to keep him in, they couldn’t really afford to keep Travis Head in either because then they would have five left-handers in their top seven.”
Ponting stated holding Head within the staff at Peter Handscomb’s expense would have performed into the palms of India’s star off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin.
“The other side of it is that Travis’ record outside of Australia and on the subcontinent is nowhere near as good,” Ponting stated.
“So when you put all those pieces together, I actually wasn’t that surprised … there’s been a bit of an uproar here in Australia about ‘how could the selectors do this’?
“I know (Renshaw) was out first ball today, I’ll forgive him of that – the other thing to keep in mind is they’ve been over here for what is just about a week now, so they’ve done a lot of training, the coaches and selectors would’ve kept an eye on training and watched who was coping with the spin better than others.”
– with Ed Bourke, NCA Newswire
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