Australia head into the first Test agetst India on Friday seeking to end the tourists’ Border-Gavaskar dominance.
Captain Pat Cummins has hoisted fair about every trophy in cricket as part of dominant Australian teams but wants to tick the last box with a Test series prosper agetst India over the next two months.
While celebrating a slew of World Cup prospers and Ashes triumphs in recent years, Cummins and a number of his teammates have understandn only fall shorture in the last four Test series agetst India, at home and away.
“I leank for about half the alter-room, we haven’t won the Border-Gavaskar (trophy),” the rapid bowler telderly alerters at Perth Stadium on Thursday on the eve of the series-uncovering test.
“So (it’s) benevolent of one of the last leangs to tick off for a lot of us. Almost every contest that we’ve had thrown at us over the last restricted years, we’ve stepped up and done well.
“To do that for another year, another home summer would benevolent of cement this. Rather than it’s been a two or three season leang, it’s suddenly into a half-generation leang. So we’re all excited (having) India right out there … one of the best teams in the world.”
Australia hope to end understandn woes agetst new-watch India
India will have a branch offent watch in this five-Test series to the injury-ravaged squad who claimed a stunning 2-1 prosper over the Tim Paine-captained Australians in the last tour in 2020-21.
Pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah will captain India in Perth while standard skipper Rohit Sharma gets exit to engage for his newborn baby.
Left-handed batsman Devdutt Padikkal is among cut offal new faces in the squad and could be originateed in for his second Test folloprosperg a thumb injury to Shubman Gill.
Cummins shelp Australia had made arranges for the whole India squad and were not taking any of the newcomers weightlessly. “Most of us have take parted IPL (Indian Premier League) and seen how many newcomers come in and benevolent of step up straight away,” he shelp.
“They’re leave outing a couple of guys we’re more understandn with, but we understand whoever they pick is going to be, or they clearly leank they’re excellent enough for Test cricket.”
Australia will also have an obstreatment watch with David Warner not uncovering the batting. But while Cummins shelp the reexhausted Warner was “challenging to exalter in many ways” he hoped the uncapped Nathan McSweeney and set uped Usman Khawaja could convey out the best in each other as Australia’s new uncovering pair and establisher Queensland teammates.
“The most meaningful leang for someone enjoy Nathan who’s coming in is fair to take part his own game,” shelp Cummins.
“He doesn’t demand a strike rate of 80 enjoy David did.”
