Australia will play Cameron Inexperienced as pure batter in 1st Take a look at towards India, feels Adam Gilchrist | Cricket Information – Occasions of India

SYDNEY: Legendary wicketkeeper-batter Adam Gilchrist feels Australia will play all-rounder Cameron Inexperienced as a pure batter on the quantity six spot within the first Take a look at towards India starting on Thursday. The 23-year-old is recovering from a surgical procedure on the index finger of his proper hand, which he had damaged in the course of the Boxing Day Take a look at towards South Africa final December.
Australia coach Andrew McDonald has already confirmed that Inexperienced is at the moment unable to bowl.
“Such is the way of this psyche of the selectors and this team, I think they’ll start with Green at six, assuming he’s fully fit and not hindered by that finger injury at all,” Gilchrist told ‘Sen Radio’.
“I believe that is the character of this group, they’re fairly trusting of one another and actually eager to again one another in each state of affairs.”
Green, who has played 18 Tests, has an average of 35.04 with the bat and impressed in the three innings in Sri Lanka last year. He has also taken 23 wickets with his seam bowling, with 5/27 as his best so far.
“The way in which he performed in Sri Lanka, it virtually seems like Inexperienced develops earlier than our eyes each time he performs a recreation of cricket… I reckon the steps ahead he took in Sri Lanka, they will be hoping he can maintain that course of going.”
Australia will be without quicks Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood due to injuries in the opening Test, starting in Nagpur on Thursday.
With Green unable to bowl, Scott Boland, who boasts of an impressive 12.21 average with the red ball in national colours, is expected to get his first overseas Test.
“If it is Boland coming in, I believe he’ll be rather well suited to the setup there with that nagging line attacking the stumps, he hits pads, he hits stumps with the suitable discipline and strategy…” Gilchrist said.
Boland will be the second fast bowling option alongside skipper Pat Cummins.
“Between Cummins’ abilities, Boland’s talent, Nathan Lyon and I suppose Lance Morris in the event that they assume they want one other fast or one other spin possibility (I believe they are going to be alright).
Whereas the absence of Starc, who’s nursing a finger harm, within the opening Take a look at will probably be an enormous loss for Australia, India will even be with out the companies of ace pacer Jasprit Bumrah and dashing wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant.
“(Starc) is a big loss but you look on the other side of the fence, no Rishabh Pant, no Jasprit Bumrah, they’re a couple of key players for India so it probably all balances out a bit.”