New Delhi: Australian worries were on the verge of escalation after Steve Smith, one of the important batsmen in the Australian suffered an injury ahead of the Adelaide test. Smith suffered a hit on his right thumb while batting in the nets ahead of the pink ball test. The Australian batsman sustained the injury while taking throwdowns from Marnus Labuschagne, he was struck on his right thumb.
According to Wisden Smith stopped batting for a brief time after he was stuck on his thumbs and looked in some serious pain while having a chat with Marnus Labuschagne. An Australian team medical staff member came into the nets for an examination of his thumb and Smith moved it gingerly to test its condition. Though he did not experience much discomfort, but left the nets then.
After a short while, Smith was back, batting in another net, seemingly not having suffered any long-term damage that could impact his participation in Adelaide. In the first Test at Perth, Smith registered a golden duck in the first innings before being dismissed for 17 runs in the second innings during a massive run chase of 534 runs. The Aussies lost by 295 runs.
What is the squad of both teams in the second test?
Australia squad:
Pat Cummins (c), Scott Boland, Alex Carey (wk), Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Mitch Marsh, Nathan McSweeney, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Beau Webster
India squad:
Rohit Sharma (c), Jasprit Bumrah (vc), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Devdutt Padikkal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar. Reserves: Mukesh Kumar, Navdeep Saini, Khaleel Ahmed, Yash Dayal.