The Indian team has to play the first match of the 5-match Test series of Border-Gavaskar Trophy to be played on the upcoming Australia tour from November 22, the first Test match of which will be played on the grounds of Perth. Before this Test series, Team India has faced three consecutive defeats against New Zealand at home, in which the bats of two important players of the Indian team, captain Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, remained silent in the entire series. Captain Rohit managed to score only 91 runs while Virat Kohli managed to score only 93 runs. In such a situation, it is like a big alarm bell for Team India before the Australia tour. At the same time, captain Rohit also answered the question asked about the preparations for the Australia tour in the press conference after facing a clean sweep in the Test series against New Zealand, in which he also revealed the reason behind not playing intra-squad matches. .
This will give us full opportunity to prepare
On the question asked about the preparations for the Australia tour, Rohit Sharma said that we canceled playing the intra-squad match because it does not give enough opportunity to everyone to prepare because if a batsman gets out early, then in such a situation he has to play the entire match. The day has to be spent in the dugout. We are going there with 19 members, in which we have got three days to prepare before the first match. So I believe we have decided to practice more to give both the batsmen and the bowlers a chance to prepare more. This will give all of us a chance to spend some time together as we all are playing a lot of cricket also.
we need to look ahead
In the Test series against New Zealand, there was a very poor performance of the batsmen of the Indian team, regarding which captain Rohit Sharma said that there is no doubt that this is a matter of concern. If the batsmen are not performing well, it is a matter of concern for all of us. Whatever is done, is done. As a player, as a captain, as a team, we all have to look ahead. We have to see how we can improve what we could not achieve here. We have a good opportunity to go to Australia and do something special. We will focus on this. I don't think we can think that far ahead. I will not think beyond the Australia series. The Test series against Australia is very important for us now. We will see what happens next after this. Many of our players have played there before and many players have not played there before, which is why we are trying to go there a little earlier so that we can get used to the conditions.
(PTI INPUTS)
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