The Indian team has to play a 5-match Border-Gavaskar Test series on the tour of Australia from November 22, the first match of which will be played at the Perth Stadium. Team India players have reached Australia, where they have also started practicing in Perth. This Test series is going to be very important for the Indian team because before this they faced a one-sided defeat against New Zealand at home, due to which the road to reach the final of the World Test Championship 2023-25 has also become very thorny for them. If Team India has to make their place directly in the title match of WTC, then they will have to win 4 matches of this series. Although this task is very difficult, Team India has seen excellent performance in Australia in the last 2 tours. At the same time, now the video of the practice of the Indian team has been posted by the BCCI on the social media platform in which many players are seen practicing fiercely on the nets.
These players including Virat Kohli and Bumrah practiced.
Team India is currently practicing at Western Cricket Australia in Perth, where the entry of fans has been completely banned, in which Team India is doing a lot of secret practice before the Test series. In the video posted by BCCI on the social media platform Instagram, Virat Kohli is seen facing spinners along with fast bowlers on the nets. Apart from this, Rishabh Pant is seen bending and leaving a bouncer ball from Jaspreet Bumrah. Fast bowler Prasidh Krishna, who is returning to Team India after a long time, gave this shot during net practice. However, Team India captain Rohit Sharma was not seen during this time.
The last time Team India had to face defeat in Perth Stadium
In 2018, Team India played a Test match in this new stadium in Perth, in which they had to face defeat by 146 runs. In that match, Virat Kohli’s bat showed an excellent 123 runs in the first innings of Team India. Kohli is currently going through a very bad form, so this Test series is going to be very important for him too. If we look at Kohli’s Test record in Australia, it has been quite brilliant so far, in which he has scored 1352 runs in 13 matches at an average of 54.08, which includes six centuries and four half-century innings.