Neither is captain Rohit Sharma there. Neither is star batsman Shubman Gill there. The first test match against Australia is about to start in Perth. Who should be kept in the playing eleven now, who can properly fill the place of these two? This question is in the mind of every Indian fan for the last 3-4 days. The Border-Gavaskar Trophy has started with this big and challenging decision for Team India as to who should be included in the batting order in the Perth Test. Different suggestions and solutions are being given for this and now it seems that the management of Team India has decided what the batting order will be like. Indications of this were given from the very first practice session of Team India at the Optus Stadium.

Team India, which has been practicing at Perth's WACA Stadium since arriving in Australia, started practicing at the Optus Stadium on Tuesday, 19 November, where the first match of the series is to be played from Friday. Team India's first day of practice was affected by rain, due to which the nets session had to be stopped midway, but whatever happened before that gave many indications about who would be wearing Team India's jersey for the match at Perth Stadium on the morning of 22 November.

Team India did various fielding drills on the ground before starting batting and bowling practice in the nets outside the Optus Stadium and the scene seen during this time indicated the playing eleven of the match, especially batting. According to the report of Cricbuzz, when the slip cordon was made during fielding practice, it had wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant with Devdutt Padikkal at first slip, Virat Kohli at second slip, KL Rahul at third slip, while Yashasvi Jaiswal was at the gully position and Dhruv Jurel was sometimes stationed at wide gully and then at silly point.

This is enough to tell that not only these players will get a place in the playing eleven, but the field position can also be similar. If some indication is needed even after this, then it was found during batting in the nets, which started after the fielding session. According to the report, the batsmen were sent in pairs in different nets, in which KL Rahul was with opener Yashasvi Jaiswal in the first net. Padikkal was with Virat on the next net, which was enough to indicate that Padikkal will play at number three in place of Shubman Gill. At the same time, Rishabh Pant and Jurel were on the next net, i.e. numbers 5 and 6.

All of them practiced batting in front of the bowlers for a long time, while Sarfaraz Khan and Ravindra Jadeja were practicing in the nets next to them but they were mostly facing the throwdown specialists. Out of these, Jadeja is sure to play but Sarfaraz seems certain to sit out. At the same time, Abhimanyu Easwaran, who was taken to Australia as a backup opener, kept watching everything from a distance, which tells us that at least he is not going to make his debut in the Perth Test and Rahul will open with Jaiswal at the Optus Stadium. There are still more than 2 days left in the Test, can Team India make some changes during this time? Now all eyes will be on this.