India taking on Australia in front of a packed Melbourne Cricket Ground on Boxing Day is big. (Streaming | More Cricket News)
Well, in the fourth🎀 Test of the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy that kicks off on Thurs♔day, December 26, it gets bigger.
The stakes for both teams🌳 are higher - with p✤ride, series, and World Test Championship qualification on the line.
If India manage to win the Melbour𝔉ne Test, they retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy and make it three on the trot on Australian soil.
If Aus꧂tralia win the Test, the hosts keep the series alive, with so much to play for heading into Sydney - and all of the action is set to ꦇunfold in front of an expected 90,000 crowd.
After Ravichandran Ashwin’s shock retirement in the middle of the series, India have added Mumbai off spin-bowling all-rounder Tanush Ko💛tian for the fourth and fifth Tests.
While Australia have named 19-year-old batting sensation Sam Konstas in the playing XI, with Scott Boland replacing the injured Josh Hazlewood.
The hosts, who were sweating on Travis Hea🦩d’s fitness, have deemed the 30-year-old fit to play.
"Trav's good to go, he'll play. He just kicked off some final things today and yesterday. But no worries about injury with Trav. He'll go into the game fully fit,” Pat Cummins was quoted as saying by cricket.com.au
India Vs Australia: Head-To-Head Record In Tests
Matches: 110
Australia wins: 46
India wins: 33
Drawn: 30
Tie: 1
India Vs Australia, 4th Test Melbourne Weather Report
India vs Australia 4th Test: Expected line-ups
India Probable XI: Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, Rohit Sharma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Jasp♚rit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep
Australia XI: Usman Khawaja, Sam Konstas, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Travis Head, Mitch Marsh, Alex Carey (wk), Pat 𝕴Cummins (c), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Scott Boland
India vs Australia Squads
India: Rohit Sharma (C), Jasprit𝔉 Bumrah (VC), Ravindra Jadeja, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel (Wk), Sarfaraz Khan, Virat Kohli, Prasidh Krishna, Tanush Kotian, Rishabh Pant (Wk), KL Rahul, Harshit Rana, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Shubman Gill, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Mohammed Siraj, Washington Sundar.
Australia: Pat Cummins (c), Scott Boland, Alex Carey (wk), Scott Boland, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Mitc𝓀h Marsh, Sam Konstas, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Beau Webster
India vs Australia 4th Test Prediction
According to recent performances and♉ form, and with respect🅠 to the conditions at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Australia start as favourites.
