Kohli declares spin war against Australia on eve of first ODI

At present, team India is at the third position and Australia is at the second position in the ICC world rankings.

He would have got a good look at India’s young wrist-spinner Kuldeep Yadav who made his Test debut in the same series. “Everyone had seen the footage and watched a bit of the series in Sri Lanka where they bowled quite a few (knuckle balls)”, said Smith. “It is important to keep picking wickets and have breakthroughs throughout”.

With the series announced about two weeks ago, both outfits will take to Chennai in half an hour and likely post something in excess of 300, whereupon it will go very close to being chased down.

“Tonight we weren’t good enough and we were outplayed by India“. In high-scoring games on flat pitches, he seems to be a candidate better equipped to capitalise in the first ten overs, but if the team indeed opts for Rahul, the selection of Rahane in the side will be questioned.

Like in Tests, the ODI opening conundrum is also not ending.

On Saturday, at the bald Chepauk track in Chennai, where even a barber would have been proud of the job done by the curator, Sriram had long nets for the Aussies with spinners in operation.

“Spin has always played a pretty big part in ODIs particularly in these conditions”.

Without going into stats which in any case are flying around, India have done exceptionally well in the past year or so as most key series’ have been played at home. Hopefully they can back up in couple of days time. In that process, things end up happening because you want to stay till the end.

Australia T20 squad: Steve Smith (c), David Warner, Jason Behrendorff, Dan Christian, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Patrick Cummins, Aaron Finch, Travis Head, Moises Henriques, Glenn Maxwell, Tim Paine, Kane Richardson, Adam Zampa.

India captain Virat Kohli prefers five specialist bowlers in Tests but keeping in mind the 2019 World Cup, he hinted that a combination of three bowlers and two bowling all-rounders would be adequate. We have been facing fast bowlers and other net bowlers.

The series will see the likes of Virat Kohli – now the world’s top ODI batsman take on world’s top ODI bowler Josh Hazelwood. For us, it is about trying to find the right group of players to fill all slots.

Apart from Glenn Maxwell (39), the rest of the Australian batsmen failed to get the momentum needed to reach the target.

Coulter-Nile, who returned after a string of injuries that kept him out since June 2016, also got opener Ajinkya Rahane, for 5, and Manish Pandey, for 0, to reduce India to 11-3.

“I am not too concerned about my differences with Kohli”.

But Australia is very distinct from any Country and it is kind of the travelers who will go back home but they saw defeating the opposing team if the team will come in face to face with the team Australia.

“We lost too many wickets in the middle”.