Australia win toss, opt to bat against India in 2nd Test match in New Delhi

New Delhi: Australian captain Pat Cummins won the toss and elected to bat first in the second Test at historically spinner-friendly Kotla wicket (now Arun Jaitley Stadium). The Aussies have replaced Matt Renshwaw with Travis Head. At the same time, Shreyas Iyer is coming in for Suryakumar Yadav. 

The Border Gavaskar Trophy 2023 has moved to the national capital after Team India’s emphatic victory by innings-and-132-runs against Australia in Nagpur. India were comfortably in the lead right from the beginning. Excitement is



palpable with Rohit Sharma’s men 1-0 up in the series, and the second Test.

Playing XIs- India: Rohit Sharma (captain), KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Ravindra Jadeja, Srikar Bharat (wicketkeeper), Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj

Australia: David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Travis Head, Peter Handscomb, Alex Carey (wicketkeeper), Pat Cummins (captain), Todd Murphy, Nathan Lyon, Matt Kuhnemann