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Usman Khawaja was the best batsman on show on day one as he took on the Indian spinners well before Shubman Gill was caught at mid-wicket. He scored 60 runs.
India will rely heavily on their spinners to spin their web around the Australian batsmen as the visitors have already taken a healthy lead and anything over 100 will spell trouble for the Asian giants.
Meanwhile, India’s desperation to pick up a wicket was visible when they lost two reviews against Khawaja in the space of five overs. When Ashwin dismissed him lbw, India were cautious in taking a review, which later wasted a huge opportunity.
Batting coach Vikram Rathour said that playing turners at home is the team’s strength.
“It’s definitely a challenging wicket. We got more turn than we expected. Maybe the ball turned faster in the morning because of the moisture. We could have definitely scored more runs but I don’t think anyone played bad or rushed cricket.” We just had one day off as a batting unit, Rathour told the media.
Asked about the risk of playing on Turner, Rathour said he might be a target of criticism at times but remains a strength of the team.
He said, of course you can get out as a batting unit at times but we like to play on turning tracks. That’s our strength, that’s where we’re really good as a unit. To be honest it is one off wicket.
He said, ‘I don’t think the first two wickets were bad wickets. It can be drier than we expected and we saw that. It did more than we expected on the first day of the Test match,” said the former India opener.
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