1st Test, India tour of Australia 2018, Watch Ind v Aus Cricket highlights today – First test day one from Adelaide Oval (Australia) Thursday 6th December 2018.
From 1947 to 2017 India and Australia played a total 94 test matches. Australia got 41 victories and India won 26 test matches, one tied and 26 drawn. The highest total of the venue is 674 scored by the home team in 1948 against India. India team’s highest total at Adelaide Oval ground is 526 scored against the home team Australia in 2008. In the result of the shortest format of the cricket game series India had not shown the great performance. But in test cricket, they are world’s number 1 ranked team with 116 points. Australia got 102 points and they are at number 5 position in the ranking.
India won the toss and elected to bat.
India team/playing XI
1 KL Rahul, 2 M Vijay, 3 Cheteshwar Pujara, 4 Virat Kohli (capt), 5 Ajinkya Rahane, 6 Rohit Sharma, 7 Rishabh Pant (wk), 8 R Ashwin, 9 Mohammed Shami, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Jasprit Bumrah.
Australia team/playing XI
1 Aaron Finch, 2 Marcus Harris, 3 Usman Khawaja, 4 Shaun Marsh, 5 Peter Handscomb, 6 Travis Head, 7 Tim Paine (capt & wk), 8 Mitchell Starc, 9 Pat Cummins, 10 Nathan Lyon, 11 Josh Hazlewood.
Form guide
(last five completed matches)
Australia: LDLLL
India: WWLLW
Match Timings: 10:30 start, Lunch 12.30-13.10, Tea 15.10-15.30, Close 17.30
Umpires – Kumar Dharmasena, Nigel Llong
TV Umpires – Chris Gaffaney
Match Referee – Ranjan Madugalle
Reserve Umpire – Gerard Abood
Match number – Test no. 2333
