Got stuck! 5 openers failed in Australia, Team India’s game is deteriorating, rest will play musical chairs with Jaiswal in Perth,

New DelhiIt rarely happens that the Indian team is about to go on a tour and the team lacks batsmen. The team selected for the Gavaskar-Border Trophy is desperately searching for an opener who can start the innings with Yashasvi Jaiswal. Both the team management and the selectors were hopeful that some opener would be found in the ongoing India A match in Melbourne. In this match, that is why the Indian selectors played 5 openers at different places, but instead of solving the puzzle, it got badly complicated.

The situation in the ongoing match in Melbourne is such that the top 5 batsmen failed miserably in both the innings. The interesting thing is that all five of them open for their respective home teams. K Rahul, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Sai Sudarshan, Rituraj Gaikwad and Devdutt Paddikal. All of them were seen kneeling before the fast bowlers of Australia A.

Five openers failed, the game is getting worse

In both the innings of Melbourne, India A batsmen were seen dancing like Chakarghini. Now all the cricket experts have started feeling that if this is the situation against the A team then what will the main bowlers of Australia do? If you look at the scoreboard of both the innings, it will become clear how big the problem has become. K Rahul – First innings 4 runs, Second innings 10 runs, K Rahul, Abhimanyu Easwaran – First innings 0 Second innings 17 runs, Sai Sudarshan – First innings 0 Second innings 3 runs, Rituraj Gaikwad First innings 4 runs, Second innings 11 runs and Devdutt Padikal. First innings 26 runs, second innings 1 run. These figures are scary because the Perth Test is to start from 22nd November and the answer as to who will be the opener is not available.

Who will play Perth Test now?

Nothing was achieved from the practice match and the question remains that who will be Jaiswal’s partner in the Gavaskar-Border Trophy. K Rahul and Abhimanyu Easwaran opened both the innings of the practice match, which indicates that both of them are the first choice of the team management. Now, if both fail, then the selectors and captain will look at the domestic form where Easwaran will score on Rahul and if sources are to be believed, despite failing in Australia so far, Abhimanyu has been asked to be ready for the first two Tests.

Tags: Border Gavaskar Trophy, India vs Australia, KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Team india