India vs Australia | India has got the team wrong, feels Michael Vaughan

India vs Australia | India has got the team wrong, feels Michael Vaughan

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Michael Vaughan has asserted that the Indian team management has got the playing XI wrong for the second Test match against Australia in Perth. Virat Kohli has gone into this game with four pace bowlers and without a proper spinner in the Indian team considering the pace and bounce on the pitch.

The Indian team selection for the Perth Test has raised many questions as the Indian team decided to go without Ravindra Jadeja for the game against the Aussies. Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and Rohit Sharma got injured before the second match of the series and the team management went ahead with Umesh Yadav replacing Ashwin and Hanuma Vihari making a comeback in place of injured Rohit Sharma. 

While Vihari can be used as a part-time off-spinner, India doesn’t have a specialist spinner as the skipper decided to get an extra pacer in form of Yadav. The decision was triggered after a lot of talks about the pitch at the newly-built Optus Stadium and the curator’s comment about getting a green top ready for the game. Australia, however, went in with Nathan Lyon as their specialist spinner in the second Test. 

During Fox Cricket’s coverage, Vaughan said, “India has got the team wrong. I just thought at Adelaide Oval, I know it’s a different pitch, but the balance of the attack was spot on. The three quicks are outstanding and I do think over the course of the next few days Virat (Kohli) will be looking over his shoulder and thinking ‘why didn’t I play a specialist spinner?’.”

Harsha Bhogle also spoke about the team selection by the Indians and underlined the fact that it was interesting to see India going without a spinner while the Aussies retaining Lyon in their playing XI. 

“It’s interesting all the Aussies thought a spinner was needed on this pitch while everyone in the Indian camp was excited by the idea of playing quicks. But in the first session Pant collected plenty of balls below the waist. The heat in the ground and the long square boundaries means Indians are in for some hard work,” Bhogle commented during Sony India’s programme during Lunch break. 

As the Australian opening pair of Aaron Finch and Marcus Harris got runs against the Indian pace attack, former Aussie pacer Glenn McGrath stated that the Indians reacted to the hype surrounding the pitch. 

“They have got caught up in the hype and felt this pitch was going to do everything, bounce, pace, carry, seam,” McGrath told Channel Seven.

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