IND vs AUS Test
Under the captaincy of Steve Smith, the Australian team defeated India by 9 wickets in the third test. Smith may not have been able to show amazing with the bat, but he was able to impress everyone with excellent captaincy. With the victory in the third Test, Australia have confirmed their place in the final of the World Test Championship. The fourth Test between India and Australia will be played at the stadium in Ahmedabad from 9 March. Now a big update has come out even before the match.
Coach gave this update
Australian team head coach Andrew McDonald said that Pat Cummins is currently in Australia and is in touch with the team. Our thoughts are still with him and his family during this difficult time. We are in constant touch with him on a daily basis, currently he is not here and the Test match is a few days away, so we will discuss with him on a daily basis.
Pat Cummins is in Australia
Pat Cummins had returned home before the third Test due to family reasons. For this reason, Steve Smith got the chance of captaincy. Cummins’ mother’s health is bad, so it is difficult for him to come to India even for the fourth test. In such a situation, only Smith will be seen doing the captaincy.
captaincy experience
Steve Smith has captained the Australian team from 2014 to 2018. He was stripped of the captaincy after ball tampering in the match against South Africa. Then from the year 2021, he remains the vice-captain of the team. In the press conference after the third Test, he has said that he does not want to be the captain at the moment and it is Pat Cummins’s team. Steve Smith has captained Australia in 37 Tests, winning 21 and losing 10.
Best captaincy record against Indiad
Steve Smith is the only overseas captain in the last decade to have won two Tests in India. It was under his captaincy that Australia defeated India by 333 runs in Pune in 2017. At the same time, he has also done a great captaincy in the Indore Test. He adopts a different strategy against India. If Steve Smith captains in the fourth Test, then it is nothing less than a threat to Team India.
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