Want to get Virat Kohli’s wicket: Agar

Skipper Cheteshwar Pujara welcomed the Test skipper and felt the Delhi batsman’s presence will boost his side.

His decision to play the match was to get acclimatized to the conditions which is similar to Colombo where he would be leading the Indian team for the first time in a three-Test series starting on August 12. It will be a good chance because everyone wants to play against a player like Virat Kohli. But with Virat Kohli checking in, it has gained importance.

In the previous outing, India had gone in with an attack comprising two seamers in Umesh Yadav and Abhimanyu Mithun, and the spin duo of Amit Mishra and Pragyan Ojha.

“It will be good for me as well as for all the youngsters”, said Cheteshwar Pujara, the captain. They can talk to Virat and learn from him. “Virat can share his ideas and it will be a good platform for them”, said Pujara. “I may not be diving in the field but everything else is okay”. India “A” bowling coach and former India player Paras Mhambrey said that Aaron is match fit and is ready to go full throttle. Two frontline spinners are a must considering the Chepauk conditions. Aparajith and Jayant Yadav are likely to take their place. If that were to be the case, Baba Aparajith and Shreyas Gopal would also be in the fray.

The Saurashtra batsman was happy with his game and promised to do better. His century in his second Test, in Sydney, was impressive, but ill health kept him out of the only Test in Bangladesh, where Shikhar Dhawan and M Vijay both scored centuries. “Hopefully, it’ll be better than the last game”, said Pujara.

From Australia A’s point of view, it would be fair to expect Agar to get a look in.

In the drawn affair that the first match was, batting was a struggle.

The other change for Australia A will be a forced one. We focus somewhat bit on the opposition, however we give attention to ourselves extra.

As for his assessment of the wicket for the match, the 24-year-old Agar, who has played in two Test matches for Australia, said, “To be honest, I have no knowledge on assessing the wickets”. “I have the pace to bowl on these wickets in the subcontinent, but the batsmen pick the ball quickly”. Because it wasn’t coming on to bat. I am not sure about how the wicket will behave tomorrow.

How things pan out over the next four days in Chennai – in terms of the result – would doubtless be important.

Since the end of that tour, of Bangladesh, which had India facing humiliation in the One-Day worldwide (ODI) series against the home side, he has not played any global cricket.

With Pujara confirming that Umesh and Mishra were being rested, Varun Aaron, who missed the last game, and one among Shreyas Gopal, B.

Australia A: Usman Khawaja (c), Matthew Wade (vc & wk), Sean Abbott, Ashton Agar, Cameron Boyce, Joe Burns, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Callum Ferguson, Peter Handscomb, Travis Head, Chris Lynn, James Pattinson, Gurinder Sandhu, Adam Zampa, Andrew Fekete.