India started coaching forward of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023 towards Australia in Nagpur on Friday. The Men in Blue will face a tricky take a look at from Australia, who’s the primary ranked Test aspect. The first Test might be performed in Nagpur between February 9 and 13. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Friday shared photos of Team India’s coaching session on Twitter. The Indian cricket staff defeated New Zealand in each the ODI and T20I collection within the run-up to the Test collection.

And the follow continues….#INDvAUS https://t.co/qwRUSxcLBY pic.twitter.com/5mECrOjWiG

— BCCI (@BCCI) February 3, 2023

On Friday, the likes of captain Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ravindra Jadeja and KL Rahul had been pictured coaching on the nets.

#TeamIndia have begun their preparations for the Border Gavaskar Trophy forward of the first Test in Nagpur.#INDvAUS pic.twitter.com/21NlHzLwGA

— BCCI (@BCCI) February 3, 2023

Indian skipper Rohit Sharma in good contact throughout a web session, whereas Kohli and opener KL Rahul additionally loved a fruitful web session. The follow session was an intense one as each bowlers and batters labored laborious to take their expertise to the best stage earlier than their opening Test towards Australia.

Australia and India, presently ranked No.1 and a pair of respectively in each the ICC Men’s Test Team Rankings and the continuing ICC World Test Championship 2023 cycle, will meet in a four-match Test collection in India. The opening Test might be performed in Nagpur between February 9 and 13.

India and Australia have performed in 27 Test collection since their first assembly in 1947-48. Australia cleared the path with 12 collection wins to India’s 10, whereas 5 collection have been drawn.

As a part of the preparation, the Australian staff has employed Maheesh Pithiya a 21-year-old spinner who bears an eerie likeness to Ravichandran Ashwin. Even as Pithiya’s profession developed to see him make his first-class debut for Baroda in December, his strategy has stayed uncannily much like Ashwin’s, who might be one in all Australia’s greatest bowling threats through the four-Test collection, which begins subsequent week in Nagpur.

India are the present holder of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy after successful the collection in Australia in 2020-21.

Australia squad:Pat Cummins (c), Ashton Agar, Scott Boland, Alex Carey, Cameron Green, Peter Handscomb, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Lance Morris, Todd Murphy, Matthew Renshaw, Steve Smith (vc), Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Swepson and David Warner.

India squad: (for the primary two Tests) Rohit Sharma (c), KL Rahul (vc), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KS Bharat, Ishan Kishan, Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Jaydev Unadkat and Suryakumar Yadav.

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