Australian skipper Michael Clarke elected to bat on a dry surface in the first cricket Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, in Chennai on Friday.
Seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar is making his debut while left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha misses out. All-rounder Moises Henriques is playing his first Test for Australia as well.
David Warner and Ed Cowan remained steady at lunch with Australia scoring an impressive 126/2 in the first session. Warner was batting on 58 while Watson on 28 as the visitors recovered from R Ashwin's double strike. Both of them notched up a fifty partnership.
India: MS Dhoni (c), Virender Sehwag, Murali Vijay, Cheteshwar Pujara, Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Harbhajan Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ishant Sharma.
Australia: Michael Clarke (c), David Warner, Ed Cowan, Phillip Hughes, Shane Watson, Matthew Wade (wk), Moises Henriques, Peter Siddle, Mitchell Starc, James Pattinson, Nathan Lyon.
Seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar is making his debut while left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha misses out. All-rounder Moises Henriques is playing his first Test for Australia as well.
David Warner and Ed Cowan remained steady at lunch with Australia scoring an impressive 126/2 in the first session. Warner was batting on 58 while Watson on 28 as the visitors recovered from R Ashwin's double strike. Both of them notched up a fifty partnership.
India: MS Dhoni (c), Virender Sehwag, Murali Vijay, Cheteshwar Pujara, Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Harbhajan Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ishant Sharma.
Australia: Michael Clarke (c), David Warner, Ed Cowan, Phillip Hughes, Shane Watson, Matthew Wade (wk), Moises Henriques, Peter Siddle, Mitchell Starc, James Pattinson, Nathan Lyon.
