Indian vice-captain Rahane will be leading the team in absence of Virat Kohli in last three Test matches against Australia.
Pant created a happy selection dilemma for the Indian team management by smashing a 73-ball 103 in the visitors' second innings against Australia A.
In Ishant Sharma’s absence, Kaif feels Umesh has gelled well with Shami and Bumrah and was impressive in the warm-up game.
Manjrekar remembers Kohli's ability to find runs when under pressure while recalling his century in Adelaide while facing the threat of getting dropped from Indian Test team in 2011.
The senior off-spinner feels that the current Australian team is the "tightest group" that he has been a part of.
Australia were forced to make another change to their squad with Moises Henriques called-up for the first Test in place of Sean Abbott, who suffered a calf strain.
Agarkar feels Shubman fits better in lower middle-order than as an opener for the pink-ball Test.
Nehra feels it makes sense to start Rahul with Mayank Agarwal ahead of Prithvi Shaw or Shubman Gill.
Warne prefers Matthew Wade over Joe Burns as one of the openers, says Burns is ‘horribly out of form’.
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Green suffered a blow on his head on Friday, the first day of the second warm-up between the touring Indians and Australia A at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
The opener scored just one run over two innings against India in the warm-up game while Marcus Harris was unimpressive as well.
Hazlewood has stated that his team will look to keep the Indian bowlers on the field for a substantial amount of time early in the upcoming Test series.
Adam Gilchrist has called for an end to the speculation over Steve Smith’s leadership future and believes he should be immediately promoted to vice-captain if Australia wants him back.
Australian pacer will rejoin the squad in Adelaide on Monday ahead of the first test against India at the venue from December 17.
The batsman will be reassessed for endurance at the end of this month before a call on his availability for the last two Test matches are made.
In outstanding form for Victoria this domestic season, Harris was on Saturday drafted into the team after Will Pucovski was ruled out of the series opener alongside David Warner.
Marcus Harris, who is featuring for Australia A in the ongoing warm-up game against Indians, is set to open in the first Test at the Adelaide Oval next week.
Back in 2001, a 20-year-old Harbhajan became first Indian to take a hat-trick in the historic India vs Australia Test played at the Eden Gardens.
The former Indian opener feels that Pandya will be back in the Test team once he resumes bowling.
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