India vs Australia LIVE: Australia Cricket Holi Celebration – It’s Holi for Indians. But Australia Cricket Team doesn’t want to miss out on the celebrations. Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Alex Carey among others posted pictures of the Australia Team celebrating Holi at the team hotel before the 4th Test of the Border Gavaskar Trophy at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Thursday. Australia trail 1-2 in the series but with a thumping win in Indore, they are eying a comeback. Follow IND vs AUS LIVE Updates on InsideSport.IN.
The Australian team is in high spirits after the win in Indore. They have a chance under Steve Smith’s captaincy to draw the series that no team has been able to since 2013. But there would not have been a better way of team bonding than celebrating the festival of colours with teammates.
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Australia are through to the World Test Championship final and would like to claim a moral victory and psychological advantage over India by restoring parity in the final game.
“Looks like probably of the four wickets we’ve seen so far, potentially the flattest on day one,” Smith told reporters on the eve of the game.
However, Smith expects that dry heat will ensure that the pitch cracks up as the game progresses, providing turn.
“Having said that, it’s I think 38 degrees out there at the moment, it’s pretty hot. Looks like it’ll dry out as the day goes on. One of the groundsmen said they might be watering it again today. So yeah, we’ll wait and see but in terms of the day before, it certainly looks like it’s likely to do less on day one than we’ve seen so far,” Smith added.
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Scoring 400 in Nagpur was a monumental task but it might be easier at Motera, opined Smith. In fact, Smith concurred with India head coach Rahul Dravid’s observations that a 70 on these tracks is as good as a hundred.
“On these wickets, that we’re playing on, 70s and 80s are winning you games of cricket as we’ve seen. This one might be a little bit different, it might be that someone needs to make a bigger score and the par score might go from 200-250 to 450-500,” Smith said.
Australia Squad: Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith(c), Peter Handscomb, Cameron Green, Alex Carey(w), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Todd Murphy, Matthew Kuhnemann, Scott Boland, Mitchell Swepson, Lance Morris
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