The Indian team is currently in Nagpur and is practicing hard. A total of 10 spinners have gradually gathered in the team’s camp, which can be guessed as to how the VCA pitch will be.
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Preparations for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy are going on in full swing. India And this series of four Test matches to be played between India and Australia is starting from February 9. The first match will be played in Nagpur. There is a question in everyone’s mind before this match. And that question is, how will the pit of Nagpur be? A lot depends on the pitch in cricket. Accordingly, both the teams choose their playing-11. All eyes are on the pitch of Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur. How the pitch will be known in reality only when the match is played on it, but before the match it can be predicted from one thing.
The Indian team is currently in Nagpur and is practicing there. And the Australian team is practicing in Bengaluru. Players can be included in the Indian team as nets players. It can be guessed from this that what kind of pitch will be in Nagpur.
Team India has 10 spinners
When the senior selection committee of BCCI selected the team for the first two Tests of this series, it included four spinners. But even after this, the recruitment of spinners in Team India went on. However, he has been included as a nets bowler. First of all, four spinners were added to the team as net bowlers. The names of Sai Kishore, Rahul Chahar, Washington Sundar, Saurabh Kumar were included in this. With this, the number of spin bowlers in Team India’s camp had increased to eight.
It seemed that Team India was falling short of eight spinners for practice and hence two more spinners were included in the team. Apart from Jayant Yadav, who has played Test matches for India, Pulkit Narang of Delhi is also included in this. Pulkit plays for the Services team.
Spinners will dominate
Seeing the dominance of spinners in the Indian team, it seems that the pitch of Nagpur will be helpful to the spinners. For this reason, the team wants to play more and more spinners in the nets so that they do not face any problem in the match. Australia has a spinner like Nathan Lyon who can damage any batting line-up on turn-taking pitches.
Australia will be in trouble!
Australia He also knows that pitches in India are helpful to spinners and hence he has come prepared. Even after coming to India, he called Ashwin-like action bowler Mahesh Pithia to the nets and practiced on his bowling. But still if Nagpur’s pitch is helpful to the spinners then it will be difficult for Australia to play because the team has bowlers like Ashwin, Jadeja, Akshar who can create problems for Australia.
