India’s Selection Dilemma: Three Fast Bowlers or Three Spinners?
Three fast bowlers or three spinners? When Rohit Sharma and Gautam Gambhir will be selecting India’s playing 11 for the first Test against Bangladesh, it will be very difficult for them to make this decision. The first Test match to be played at the Chepauk Stadium in Chennai is to start from September 19. The Chepauk pitch is made of red soil and the bounce is good here. Fast bowlers are likely to get a good bounce on this pitch.
Reverse swing can also be seen. It is also certain that the pitch will break quickly and spinners will get special help from this. The Indian team can take the field with 5 bowlers for the first Test against Bangladesh
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India to Play With Five Bowlers
The first Test of the two-match Test series will be played between India and Bangladesh from September 19. India has already announced the team for this match. The team has 4 spinners and 3 fast bowlers. The four spinners include 3 all-rounders Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, and Axar Patel. At the same time, the fast bowlers are Jaspreet Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj, Akash Deep, and Yash Dayal.
India can take the field with 5 bowlers for the first Test against Bangladesh. Jaspreet Bumrah, Mohammad Siraj, Ravichandran Ashwin, and Ravindra Jadeja are considered certain to play, but the discussion is still going on about who will be the fifth bowler. For the fifth bowler, any one of Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Akash Deep, and Yash Dayal can be included in the playing-11.
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Chepauk’s Changing Pitch Conditions
The red soil pitch of Chepauk is usually helpful for spinners. For this reason, 4 spinners have also been included in the Indian team. The special thing is that four players (Ashwin, Jadeja, Akshar, Kuldeep) are useful batsmen. India has played 34 Tests in Chepauk so far, in which India won 15 matches, while it lost 7 matches. At the same time, 11 matches were drawn and one match ended in a tie. The Indian team played the last Test on this ground in 2021 against England, in which they won by 317 runs.
The character of the Chepauk pitches has completely changed since India last played a Test here. The first two Test series of the England series were played in the year 2021. England won the first Test on the fifth day, on a pitch that the curator promised would be a typical Chepauk pitch with an English look.
The Indian spinners were unhappy that the pitch was flat. By the second Test, the default setting was restored and England failed to score more than 200 runs in any innings as Ashwin scored a century and took five wickets on home ground. Rohit had helped India level the series by scoring a brilliant 161
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