The Pat Cummins-led Australian cricket staff is all set to tour India for the highly-anticipated Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023, scheduled to begin in Nagpur on February 09. The four-match Test battle will likely be fairly essential for either side as they give the impression of being to verify their locations in the World Test Championship (WTC) closing.
The contest between Indians and the Aussies has all the time been eye-catching, and speedster Mitchell Starc has stated that the upcoming Border-Gavaskar sequence goes to be an awesome challenge. While chatting with Erin Holland at the Australia Cricket Awards, Starc asserted how one might by no means guess what the Indian situations would possess earlier than mentioning about the challenge for the Australian staff.
“I guess you never really know what to expect from the conditions in India, but we have a fair idea that it is obviously going to turn. You never quite know until you start the game or decide which wicket to play on. So, it is going to be a great challenge,” stated Starc.
Notably, Starc, who is a component of the Aussie squad for the India tour, is predicted to overlook the sequence opener as the pacer continues to get well from his left index finger damage that dominated him out of the third Test towards South Africa in Sydney. The New South Wales paceman reckoned his staff is in a good place, including that some good cricket is coming up in the subsequent couple of months.
“The team is in as good a position that we can be heading into an Indian tour. It’s exciting with the women going for the World Cup, and we have a long tour of India. So plenty of good cricket to watch over the next couple of months, so we’re just wishing for some good success for Australia,” Starc added.
Australia’s Test squad for the tour of India:
Pat Cummins (captain), Ashton Agar, Scott Boland, Alex Carey, Cameron Green, Peter Handscomb, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Lance Morris, Todd Murphy, Matthew Renshaw, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Swepson, David Warner.