After securing a monumental victory in the first Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test match in Perth by 295 runs, India's focus shifts to the Pink-ball Test in Adelaide against Australia starting from December 6, Friday. (Full Coverage | More Cricket News)
Australia, who will be wounded from the defeat at Perth, will be without the services of Josh Hazlewood, who is ruled out due to an injury. Moreover, there's more doubt over the bowling ability of Mitchell Marsh 𓃲as the hosts look to find solution to level the series.
India will welcome back Rohit Sharma after missing out on action at Perth and could make changes to their playing XI. Their could be space for Shubman Gill 💃as well as Ravindra Jadeja/Ravichandran Ashwin depending on the playing conditions at Adelaide.
India Vs Australia: Head-To-Head Record In Tests
Matches: 53
Australia wins: 30
India wins: 10
Drawn: 13
🍸India have played 13 matches at Adelaide Oval, registering two wins and nine losses. Two were draws. Their last match was a painful one, as they were bowled out for 36 in the second innings of the pink-ball Test to hand Australia an eight-wicket win.
India Vs Australia, 2nd Pink-Ball Test Adelaide Weather Report
✤As per Weather.com, Adelaide weather could witness some showers on Friday, December 6.
India vs Australia 2nd Test: Expected line-ups
India:
Rohit Sharma (c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wk), KL Rahul, Washington Sundar, Nitish Kumar ཧReddy, Harshit Rana, Mohammed Siraj, Jasprit Bumrah.
Australia:
💃Usman Khawaja, Nathan McSweeney, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey (wk), Pat Cummins (c), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Scott Boland.
India vs Australia Squads:
India's squad for Border-Gavaskar Trophy:𝔉 Rohit Sharma (C), Jasprit Bumrah (VC), Ravindra Jadeja, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel (Wk), Sarfaraz Khan, Virat Kohli, Prasidh Krishna, Ravichandran Ashwin, Rishabh Pant (Wk), KL Rahul, Harshit Rana, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Shubman Gill, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Mohammed Siraj, Washington Sundar.
Australia's Squad for 2nd Test💖: Pat Cummins (c), Scott Boland, Alex Carey (wk), Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Mitch Marsh, Nathan McSweeney, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Beau Webster
India vs Australia 2nd Test Prediction
♛As per Google, India has 43% chance of winning the Test match.
