IND vs AUS 1st Test Schedule, Live Streaming, Date, Pitch Report, Weather Jasprit Bumrah led India will take on Pat Cummins’ Australia in the first of the five-match Test series in Perth starting on Friday. While the former have been thrashed by New Zealand at home recently the latter have white-washed the same side away from home in their last Test series in February this year.

While the bowling attacks of both sides are capable enough to look after themselves the area of concern for both sides is the batting department. For India absence of Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill is a huge blow. On the contrary Cameron Green who is an asset with both the ball and the bat in the middle order will miss the entire series.

India predicted XI: Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Devdutt Padikkal, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wk), Dhruv Jurel, R Ashwin, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna

Player to watch out for: Virat Kohli has had an impeccable record in Australia averaging 54.08. However, coming into the series he has been short of runs. With the absence of Rohit and Shubman, the onus is on the talisman to take the responsibility of the batting on his shoulders. His runs will play a crucial part for India in the Test match.

Australia predicted XI: Usman Khawaja, Nathan Nathan McSweeney, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Travis Head, Alex Carey, Mitchell Marsh, Pat Cummins (C), Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon

Player to watch out for: Similar to Kohli, Australia’s number three Marnus Labuschange has been going through a rough patch after emphatically starting his career and scoring tons left, right, and center. If he can play the anchor role similar to Cheteshwar Pujara in previous tours for India which is to not only pile on runs but also hold an end up tiring the Indian bowlers making their comeback for second and third spells it will help the Australian batting unit immensely.

Squads:

India Squad: Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Devdutt Padikkal, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant(w), Dhruv Jurel, Nitish Reddy, Ravichandran Ashwin, Akash Deep, Jasprit Bumrah(c), Mohammed Siraj, Sarfaraz Khan, Prasidh Krishna, Ravindra Jadeja, Harshit Rana, Washington Sundar, Abhimanyu Easwaran

Australia Squad: Usman Khawaja, Nathan McSweeney, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey(w), Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins(c), Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood, Josh Inglis, Scott Boland

India vs Australia head-to-head records in Tests

Matches played: 107, India won: 32, Australia won: 45, Drawn: 29, Tied: 1

Pitch report: The India Australia first Test will played at the Optus Stadium in Perth and the conditions are expected to be fast and bouncy. There will be help for the seamers throughout the Test match with either seam moment in the initial days or uneven bounce in the last part of the Test match.

India vs Australia weather report

Though there is a bit of rain predicted on Thursday the Accuweather app predicts that the weather will be ideal for playing cricket with a temperature around 30 degrees centigrade for the remaining game. However, because of the rain and some grass on the pitch for Day 1 captain winning the toss might opt to bowl first.

India vs Australia livestreaming details

The LIVE telecast of the first Test match between India and Australia can be watched on the Star Sports network and will be streamed on the Hotstar website.