India vs Australia 1st Test LIVE SCORE UPDATES: Rishabh Pant’s resistance crucial as India crumbles again
Under plenty of pressure, India take on Australia in the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, in Perth on Friday. Having just been whitewashed by New Zealand at home, India will be hoping to get their batting combination right. In 2018-19 and 2020-21, India won back-to-back series. But history doesn’t matter as the New Zealand series proved that India is currently in a transition stage.
India Squad: Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Devdutt Padikkal, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant(w), Dhruv Jurel, Nitish Reddy, Ravichandran Ashwin, Akash Deep, Jasprit Bumrah(c), Mohammed Siraj, Sarfaraz Khan, Prasidh Krishna, Ravindra Jadeja, Harshit Rana, Washington Sundar, Abhimanyu Easwaran
Australia Squad: Usman Khawaja, Nathan McSweeney, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey(w), Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins(c), Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood, Josh Inglis, Scott Boland