Rahul Tiwari
khelja|04-12-2024
By winning the first test match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Team India has taken the lead over Australia at the beginning of the series. Team India now has a good chance to double its lead soon. For this, it will need good performance from its two biggest stars, Jasprit Bumrah and Virat Kohli. Just 3 days before this Test, there was a fierce clash between the two giants during practice in Adelaide. This caught everyone's attention and everyone kept looking at it with surprise. No, there was no rift between the two, rather this clash between the two took place in the nets, where Bumrah bowled sharp and Kohli also faced him boldly.
The last day-night test between India and Australia was played on this ground 4 years ago. This was the same match in which Team India was bundled out for just 36 runs in the second innings and Australia had won that test. Not only this victory, Australia has won all the day-night tests played on the grounds of Adelaide. In fact, in all the Pink Ball Tests that Australia has played till date, the current World Test champions have faced defeat only once. Coincidentally, this defeat came against West Indies this year but it was in Brisbane. In such a situation, the Indian team captained by Rohit Sharma will have to put in full effort in the day-night test match to be held in Adelaide.
To prepare for this test, Team India also played a practice match in Canberra, which could be of only 46-46 overs instead of two days. After this, Team India entered Adelaide for practice for the first time on Tuesday, 3 December. All the players sweated profusely. During this period, the toughest competition was between Kohli and Bumrah. Team India's best batsman and best bowler also left no stone unturned in this session and practiced with match-like focus and intensity. According to reports, during this time Kohli decided to leave the initial balls of Bumrah. Then also delivered some sharp back foot punches. Bumrah also dodged Kohli's bat on some balls. Overall it was an exciting nets session.
There was another special thing about this session. This entire session was also open for fans and hundreds of Indian fans present in Australia came to watch Team India practice during this period. The Indian team first faced the pink ball in the training area outside the Adelaide Oval ground. During this time, fans were standing everywhere outside the boundary of the practice area and were praising everything from bowling to shots. Then in the evening, when practice started inside the ground, a large number of fans were sitting in the stands there too.