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Australia’s limited-overs skipper Aaron Finch conceded that his Test career is all but over and claimed that he will choose to stay away from first-class cricket to give more opportunities to up and coming youngsters. Finch further urged Australia to follow the ‘ECB model’ in resting players.

Cricket Australia have announced two parallel squads for the Test series against South Africa and T20Is against New Zealand, with Matthew Wade being dropped from the former. There are as many as five uncapped players in the Australian Test team even though the full-strength squad is picked.

Ricky Ponting believes that Mitchell Starc, who disappointed in the India series, only has a few net sessions to prove his worth and believes the Aussies need to drop the left-armer should he not swing the ball during practice. Ponting further expects Matthew Wade to keep his spot in the XI.

After an excellently-contested series in Australia, the ICC ratings for the series between two giants of world cricket has been revealed, with the venues getting above average to very good. The Adelaide venue, which saw India succumbing to 36 all-out, got a rating of 'good-very good'.