India Vs Australia final test: Australia chose batting

In the fourth Test against India, Australian team won the toss and chose batting. Australian team participates four-match Test series against India. The Indian team won the first three Tests and won the series by 3-0. The fourth Test between the two teams begins today in Delhi.

Australian captain Michael Clarke left from the team due to injury. So Shane Watson acts as a Captain Watson. He said that, “Michael Clarke’s batting and leadership will certainly be sorely missed, but I’m looking forward to the challenge and responsibility over the next five days.”

Australian team made five changesin its team. Watson replaces Michael Clarke and Glenn Maxwell was chosen as the all- rounder ahead of Moises Henriques. Fast bowlers James Pattinson and Mitchell Johnson were replaced by Mitchell Starc and Xavier Doherty.

India Vs Australia Squads:

INDIA: Ajinkya Rahane, Murali Vijay, Cheteshwar Pujara, Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni (captain), Ravichandran Ashwin, Pragyan Ojha, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ishant Sharma

AUSTRALIA: David Warner, Ed Cowan, Phil Hughes, Shane Watson (captain), Steven Smith, Matthew Wade, Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Johnson, James Pattinson, Peter Siddle, Nathan Lyon.

Dean Jones criticized Australian Cricket Team

Australian former cricket player Dean Jones criticizes Australian players for their poor performance against India.  He feels Australians are looking ragged and under-prepared for the four-Test series.

Dean Jones said that, "Australian player’s preparation has been adequate and just a couple of day’s games are not enough for a series in India. They have to prepare for at least a couple of weeks or at least three first class matches before the first Test. Australian batsmen had a lot to learn from Pujara and Vijay. Both of them played well and their performance was amazing. I hope that the Australian batsmen watched how these two players made their jobs very well. The Australian batsmen should go hard too early into the innings instead of just being patient”.

He also added that, “Pujara and Vijay had a second wicket stand of 294 runs which was 57 more than what nine Australian batsmen put on as a team. Michael Clarke (91) and Matthew Wade (62) were the only two batsmen who had showed some application. I think it was one of the best learning episodes for the Australian cricket on how you go about making runs in India".

India Vs Australia 2nd Test Match

Australia won the toss and elected to bat first against India in the second Test match.

In India Vs Australia first Test match, India won by 8 wickets. For Australian, captain is Michael Clarke. All-rounder Glenn Maxwell will make his debut. Xavier Doherty has taken the place of Nathan Lyon as the side’s specialist spinner.

The Squads

India:

                MS Dhoni(w/c), Shikhar Dhawan, Harbhajan Singh, Virat Kohli, Pragyan Ojha, Ajinkya Rahane, Ishant Sharma, Murali Vijay, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ashok Dinda, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar.

Australia:

                Michael Clarke(c), Matthew Wade(w), Ashton Charles Agar, Ed Cowan, Moises Henriques, Mitchell Johnson, Nathan Lyon, James Pattinson, Steven Smith, Shane Watson, Xavier Doherty, Phillip Hughes, Usman Khawaja, Glenn Maxwell, Peter Siddle, Mitchell Starc, David Warner.

Live Scoreboard:

Australia 1^st Innings

Batsmen	Aus: 49/2 (overs 13)	Runs	Balls	4s	6s	SR
David Warner	b B Kumar	6	8	1	0	75.00
Ed Cowan	Lbw b B Kumar	4	13	1	0	30.77
Phillip Hughes	batting	19	32	4	0	59.38
Shane Watson	batting	15	25	2	0	60.00
Extras:	(b 4, lb 1, w o, nb 0, p 0)	5
Total	(2 wkts, 13 overs)	49                             RR: 3.77

Yet To bat:

Michael Clarke (c), Matthew Wade (wk), Glenn Maxwell, Moises Henriques, Peter Siddle, James Pattinson, Xavier Doherty

Bowling: India	O	M	R	W	Nb	Wd	ER
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	7	1	23	2	0	0	3.70
Ishant Sharma	5	1	21	0	0	0	4.20
Ravichandran Ashwin	1	1	0	0	0	0	0.00