Major reshuffle in Australian team for Melbourne and Sydney Test, entry of 19 year old boy, will be a challenge for India

Australia has announced its squad for the last 2 test matches of the series against India, in which 2 major changes have been seen. Nathan McSweeney has been dropped from the team for the fourth and fifth Test matches to be held in Melbourne and Sydney. Whereas fast bowler Jhye Richardson has returned to the Test team for the first time in more than three years. The fourth test match of the series between India and Australia will be played at the Melbourne stadium from 26 December, while the last and fifth match will be played at the Sydney stadium from 3 January.

The Kangaroo team is going to give 19-year-old Sam Constas a chance to debut in the Boxing Day Test. Australia has high expectations from the young opening batsman in this important match of Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Cricket lovers are very excited about Sam, who hails from New South Wales, and the selectors want to see him giving a tough challenge to the Indian bowlers.

Contas's strong record

The basis of Sam Constas' selection is his recent performance. In the 2024 Big Bash League, he opened with David Warner for Sydney Thunder and scored 57 runs in just 26 balls. This innings became the fastest half-century in the history of Sydney Thunder.

While playing for Prime Minister's XI against India, Sam had scored a brilliant 107 runs. In this innings, he faced experienced bowlers like Mohammad Siraj and Ravindra Jadeja. At the same time, in the unofficial test match against India A, he scored unbeaten 73 runs and led his team to victory.

At the same time, fast bowler Jhye Richardson has also made a comeback. Jhay has returned to the team after injury. He played in Adelaide during the Ashes series in December 2021. Overall, he has returned after three years. His fellow fast bowler Sean Abbott has also returned to the team for the Tests in Melbourne and Sydney. Apart from this, Tasmania's uncapped all-rounder Beau Webster has also returned to the team, who was included before the second Test in Adelaide.

BGT's next test will be held in Melbourne 

The next test of Border Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) between India and Australia will be held from 26th December (Boxing Day). Earlier, the Gaba Test held on 18 December had ended in a draw. Australia scored 445 runs in its first innings in this match. Then the Indian team was all out for 260 runs in the first innings. After this Australia declared its second innings at 89 runs. In this way, the Indian team got the score of 275 runs to win. But when India's score was 8/0, the match could not be played on the fifth day due to bad light and rain, later it was declared a draw.

Australia's team for the last two tests: Pat Cummins (captain), Travis Head (vice-captain), Steve Smith (vice-captain), Sean Abbott, Scott Boland, Alex Carey, Josh Inglis, Usman Khawaja, Sam Constas, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Marsh, Jhye Richardson, Mitchell Starc. Beau Webster

Squad of Indian cricket team: Rohit Sharma (captain), Jasprit Bumrah (vice-captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Devdutt Padikkal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar