India vs Australia 4th Test Day 1 Live | IND vs AUS 4th Test Live Scores & Commentary
9PREVIEW: Entering Ahmedabad, there is a similar sense of the scoreboard not reflecting how the two sets of players see themselves. Australia, their confidence restored, are a team in the ascendant. India aren't downbeat but they are increasingly looking towards their batters, many of whom have had the onerous task of finding the right balance between scoring quickly and slowly on surfaces that don't make the task easy. But there might be respite coming their way.
It would be tempting to place the Ahmedabad pitch on the centre stage. But that would be distracting from the lead actors themselves who will square off with so much to play here. For starters, India do not want to leave their qualification for the World Test Championship final in New Zealand's hands. They also have a proud record of having won 15 consecutive home series to protect.
For the visitors, Indore was a big win, but it was also a rare one. While it may be 1-2 right now, it is also 2-12. That's the ledger in India for Australia since 2004. More broadly, Australian sides have struggled to win consecutive Tests away from home. This though is a different team, and back-to-back wins in Lahore and Galle are a testament to that claim. The next step is to do it in the same series for the first time since New Zealand 2016. And there are ingredients falling into place. Their batting is clicking into gear slowly, and their spin lineup has seldom looked as consistently good as it did at the Holkar Stadium.
Even so, Australia have had to come back from behind to get to a point where levelling this Test series is a big possibility. And they will know, in all honesty, that they could have even been 2-1 up at this point with a little luck. Having let India off in Delhi, Steve Smith & Co. will be wanting to end the series with a win, and show that they have become an even better team, with greater staying power and adaptability.
The best batting conditions of the series, at least to start off. Smith, however, predicted that spin would come into play but will do so belatedly. That should automatically increase the likelihood of this Test extending beyond three days. A return to more normal subcontinental conditions will see the toss assume greater significance than it has been in this series so far where teams not winning the toss have gone on to win each time. Meanwhile, the players will be treated to summer conditions in Ahmedabad with mid-afternoon temperatures forecast to 37 degrees Celsius during the Test match.
Teams:
India Team List: Rohit Sharma(c) - Shubman Gill - Cheteshwar Pujara - Virat Kohli - KL Rahul - Srikar Bharat(w) - Ravindra Jadeja - Ravichandran Ashwin - Axar Patel - Mohammed Shami - Mohammed Siraj - Ishan Kishan - Shreyas Iyer - Kuldeep Yadav - Suryakumar Yadav - Jaydev Unadkat - Umesh Yadav
Australia Team List: David Warner - Usman Khawaja - Marnus Labuschagne - Steven Smith - Travis Head - Alex Carey(w) - Pat Cummins(c) - Nathan Lyon - Scott Boland - Todd Murphy - Mitchell Swepson - Peter Handscomb - Ashton Agar - Mitchell Starc - Matt Renshaw - Cameron Green - Lance Morris
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