The four-Test Border-Gavaskar Trophy between India and Australia ended on Monday. Captain Pat Cummins traveled to Australia after playing two matches of the important Test series on Indian soil. At that time, it was known that the pacer had to return to Australia due to the illness of the Aussie captain’s mother Maria Cummins. However, Maria Cummins could not recover anymore, she breathed her last in Sydney on Friday morning. As a result, Pat Cummins is not playing in the ODI series against India.

Steven Smith led the Australia team in the last two Tests instead of Cummins. He also has the responsibility of captaincy on his shoulders in ODIs. Smith last led Australia in this format five years ago. After that, he lost the captaincy in the ball-tampering scandal in South Africa and was also temporarily banned from cricket.

The three-match ODI series between India and Australia will begin on March 17. The remaining two ODIs will be held on March 19 and 22.

Australia ODI squad: David Warner, Travis Head, Steven Smith (c), Marnus Labuschagne, Mitchell Marsh, Marcus Stoinis, Alex Carey (wk), Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green, Josh English, Shaun Abbott, Ashton Agar, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa.

Winning Tests on Indian soil is complex for non-Asian teams. Even a legendary captain like Ricky Ponting could not win Australia’s Test in Indian conditions. But the exception here is Steven Smith. He played again on Indian soil in white clothes. Sandpaper was banned in the ball-tampering scandal. He who lost the captaincy did not return after that. But in the emergency, it was Steven Smith who showed Velki. Bajimat took over the captaincy in the absence of Pat Cummins. Australia’s most iconic Test win on Indian soil was led by L Smith.

After 2004, Ajira tasted victory for the second time in India. And the two wins came under Smith’s captaincy. Earlier, Australia had defeated India in Pune Test in 2017 in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Smith’s team won this time in Indore. Steve Smith has done what the Ricky Ponting-Allan boarders could not do in white. Ponting, one of Ajid’s most successful captains, could not win a single one after leading 7 Tests on Indian wickets. Captain Smith got 2 wins in 5 matches.

Pat Cummins’ Australia team was ignored in the first two Tests of the series in Nagpur and Delhi. Amidst such pressure, the discussion of making Smith the captain started after giving the victory to the visitors with responsibility.Although Smith himself is not thinking about it at all. Said, it is Cummins team now. They want to proceed with his plan. The final of the Test Championship will be held in June. Australia has already confirmed the last. At Lord’s, under the leadership of Cummins, Ajira will do great things, and lift the title – this is the hope of Smith.

Nagpur’s wicket is very rough, spinners will dominate here – Australia’s Steven Smith commented on the door of the first Test against India. Although Hazlewood has been sidelined due to injury, the vice-captain of the Australian Test team has complete confidence in Lance-Boland. Smith said, “One end of the pitch is very dry. Here the spin will suffer a lot. Left-arm spinners in particular will benefit. I don’t think the wicket will bounce.

There will be skiddies for seamers. And sometimes the ball will be low, sometimes it will come high. The cracks seem quite large.’Smith-Cummins fight hard in India. But not yet fit-informed all-rounder Cameron Greene. A bigger blow has come from the dismissal of one of the team’s bowlers, Josh Hazlewood. However, the team has full confidence in Lance Morris and Scott Boland. Smith said about them, “Hazlewood is a great bowler. His absence is a great loss for us. But there’s Lance and Scotty.

Besides, we have many spin options. Ravichandran Ashwin-Ravindra Jadeja is formidable in India’s conditions. The onus is on Steven Smith’s shoulders against them. In the last tour of India in 2017, Smith scored a maximum of 499 runs in 3 matches. Aji Vice Captain is waiting for something like this time. He wants to give something good. “I’m in good shape,” Smith said. The training has been excellent. I hope I can do something like 2017. Border-Gavaskar Trophy heats up in Nagpur. How much analysis before the test series of two heavyweight teams? XI, the form of cricketers, war of words – giving extra dimension to 4 match series. But the wicket is at the top of the discussion before the first match. When non-Asian teams come on tour, teams from the subcontinent usually produce extra spinning wickets. India has set the same trap for Australia. The pitch of Vidarbha Cricket Ground in Nagpur is frightening Ajid.

At the end of the first day, Australia’s total was 147 for 2, Khawaja was unbeaten on 54, Khawaja shared a 209-run partnership with Smith for the third wicket, Khawaja picked up his 13th century in a 56-match Test career.

On the other hand, Smith completed his 30th century in the 92nd Test, with this innings, Smith surpassed Sir Don Bradman’s record of 29 centuries in 52 Tests, after the century, Smith was dismissed by South African spinner Keshav Maharaj, before scoring 104 runs in 192 balls with 11 fours and 2 sixes.

Khawaja added 112 runs with Travis Head after Smith’s dismissal, head was dismissed for 70 off 59 balls with 8 fours and a six in a deadly mood, Khawaja finished the day’s play with Matt Renshaw, he is now 5 runs away from the double-century, Khawaja has hit 19 fours and 1 six so far in his 368-ball innings.

South Africa pacer Anrich Nortje took two wickets for 55 runs, while pacers Kagiso Rabada and Keshav Maharaj took one wicket each.