From being called finished to standing at the cusp of the milestone 100th Test, Ishant Sharma has peppered a classic bowling display in the history of Indian cricket with some mesmerising bowling spell.

Ishant is on course to become only the second Indian fast bowler, after the great Kapil Dev, to complete 100 Tests for the country.

Ishant, the most-capped Test player in this current line-up, on Monday, became the third Indian pacer after Kapil Dev (434 wickets) and Zaheer Khan (311) to reach the 300-wicket milestone.

Indian pacer Ishant Sharma on Sunday became the sixth bowler in the country's cricket history to take 300 Test wickets.

Ishant dismissed Jos Buttler and Jofra Archer in successive deliveries in the third session on Saturday.

Delhi, led by Shikhar Dhawan, included veteran pacer Ishant Sharma in the playing XI. The right-arm pace bowler was ruled out of the Indian Premier League (IPL) in October with an abdominal muscle tear.

Ishant was forced to miss the Australia tour due to side strain suffered during the IPL. 

The legendary cricketer feels if injured Shami doesn’t recover in time, then Ishant Sharma must be sent to Australia immediately as Navdeep was unimpressive in the warm-up game.

In Ishant Sharma’s absence, Kaif feels Umesh has gelled well with Shami and Bumrah and was impressive in the warm-up game.

Smith, however, said that Australia will have to be at their best against the experienced Indian bowling attack despite the fact that the visitors would be missing Ishant.

India will be playing two practice matches against Australia A ahead of the anticipated series that will give Team India a chance to answer a few many questions in a bid to arrive at their perfect XI for the Border-Gavaskar series

After the IPL final, Rohit, instead of heading to Australia, had to come back to Mumbai to be with his ailing father.

Australia head coach Justin Langer has commented on Rohit Sharma and Ishant Sharma's potential absence from the Test series, which begins on December 17.

Rohit Sharma and Ishant Sharma are currently undergoing rehab at the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore.

Rohit and Ishant are currently at the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru recovering from their respective injuries that they had incurred during IPL 2020 in the UAE. 

Ishant Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal among others have always enjoyed their time Down Under.

BCCI president Sourav Ganguly recently had said that they are expecting Ishant Sharma to get fit before the first Test in Adelaide.

KL Rahul has earned a call back while BCCI will continue to monitor the progress of injured Rohit Sharma and Ishant Sharma.

Ishant is presently at the NCA after having suffered a muscle tear during IPL 2020

Delhi Capitals are likely to miss their hard-hitting keeper-batsman Rishabh Pant for a minimum of 7 to 10 days as he has suffered a grade 1 hamstring strain.