The Border-Gavaskar Trophy will start between India and Australia with the Test match at the Optus Stadium in Perth from Friday 22nd November. It is already clear that this series is going to be very difficult for Team India, but the biggest challenge for them at the moment is the selection of the playing eleven in the first test match. Captain Rohit Sharma is not available for this test, while Shubman Gill's injury has given new tension as he is out of this match. In such a situation, now Team India has been forced to call the player who was not even selected for this tour. This player is Devdutt Padikkal, who can now be seen playing in the Perth Test.

Team India, which was practicing for the last few days at the WACA Stadium before the start of the Perth Test, suffered a major setback in the form of Gill's injury. Team India was doing match simulation practice at WACA, on the second day of which on Saturday 16th November, while fielding, Gill got hit by the ball on the thumb of his left hand. Due to being hit by the ball, his thumb got fractured and now he is out of Perth Test. This injury of Gill has come at a time when Team India is already trying to fill Rohit Sharma's place in the opening.

Expressed confidence in Padikkal among many players

Now it is clear that Gill will not play the first test, so who should be selected to replace him is a big question. Although Team India has the option to choose between Abhimanyu Easwaran, Dhruv Jurel and Sarfaraz Khan, but among them Jurel and Sarfaraz are middle order batsmen, whereas Easwaran, despite being a top order batsman, plays for India A. Couldn't impress. In such a situation, now the team management has decided to include Padikkal in the squad, who was already present in Australia with India A and has impressed a lot.

According to the report of Cricbuzz, the India A squad, which was present in Australia for the last few weeks, will soon return to India but Padikkal will remain in Australia. There were some players in this squad including Easwaran, Jurel, KL Rahul, Nitish Kumar Reddy, who were also selected for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. All these players will remain with the team in Australia but the rest of the A squad players will return. It was believed that considering the needs of Team India, either Ruturaj, Sai Sudarshan or Padikkal would be stopped and now the team has decided to stop the left-handed batsman.

Will you replace Gill in Perth?

Padikkal impressed in the 2 unofficial test matches played against Australia A. During this period, in the 4 innings played, he scored 36, 88, 26 and 1 run, which were better than most of the batsmen. Padikkal looked comfortable on Australian pitches, after which it has been decided to stop him. In such a situation, he can bat at number three in the Perth Test. Padikkal made his Test debut against England this year and batted in one innings, where he scored a half-century.