AUS vs IND | Takeaways from Team India's pink-ball warm-up game ahead of Adelaide opener
India TV NewsBen McDermott and Jack Wildermuth's gritty centuries on the final day of the second warm-up tie under the lights at the Sydney Cricket Ground denied Team India a victory despite successfully reducing the home team to 25 for three. We take a look at some of the takeaways for the Indian team ahead of their first Test, at the Adelaide, which will also be a pink ball game. His upright stance and ability to get his body behind the line of the ball stood out in both his knocks against the shiny pink, hence putting him ahead in the race to the second opener's spot unless the team has plans to name him as the No.4 batsman in Kohli's absence from the last three Tests. India's mainstay bowlers and batsmen have shown form Although they struggled against the new pink ball, falling like nine pins on Friday to add just 111 runs for the loss of seven wickets by the 31st over before an unlikely half-century from Jasprit Bumrah powered them to 194, India's batters wrapped up their pink-ball preparations with contrasting tons from Hanuma Vihari and Rishabh Pant while Mayank Agarwal and Gill scored their respective fifties.