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  • Prithvi Shaw posts cryptic message after Adelaide Test

    Prithvi Shaw, India’s 21-year-old opener, whose place in the team is on the line after scores of 0 and 4 in the Adelaide Test, shared a motivational message on his Instagram handle the day after India’s defeat.

    “If sometimes people demotivates you for something you try to do, that means you can do that but they can’t.”Shaw’s 4 in the second innings of the Adelaide Test came as part of a team collapse which consigned India to a big defeat and a 0-1 deficit in the four-match series. The 2nd Test begins on Saturday.

    Shaw has played just five Tests so far and has amassed 339 runs at a highly respectable average of 42.4. However, his recent form — his highest score on the ongoing tour has been 40, in a warm-up match, and he failed to reach double digits in most of the matches for Delhi Capitals in the later half of the IPL season — has led to many question marks over whether he will be played in the 2nd Test vs Australia.

  • Team India sweats it out in Test match practice ahead of Australia tour

    Ahead of the upcoming series against Australia, the Indian squad is leaving no stone unturned to prepare for the tour and on Thursday every player shifted their focus to fielding.

    Mohammad Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, Prithvi Shaw, Hanuma Vihari were seen doing fielding drills alongside fielding coach R Sridhar. Team India’s official Instagram handle posted the photos of fielding sessions and the post was captioned as: “Eyes firmly on the ball”.

    India and Australia will first lock horns against each other in ODIs and T20Is and then both sides will shift their attention to the longest format of the game.

    Kohli will just be playing one Test against Australia, and then he will head back home after being granted paternity leave by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

    On Tuesday, the Indian team had started preparing for the Test series as Kohli posted a video of batting with the red-ball. The fielders were positioned in Test-match like fielding positions and the Kohli-led side seemed to be using a Test-match like stimulation to leave no stone unturned in preparing for the likes of Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, and Pat Cummins.

    Indian squad for all the three-formats had arrived in Australia last week and now every player has started undergoing net sessions to be fully prepared.

    During the 2018-19 series, India managed to record their first Test series win on Australian soil. Kohli-led side eventually won the series 2-1 and now they would be looking to retain the Border Gavaskar Trophy.