Aussies set for 35-year first in major Test gamble

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Victorian off-spinner Todd Murphy is acceptable to marque his Test debut successful the bid opener against India arsenic Australia prepares for a fertile turner successful Nagpur.

Australia has been forced to reshuffle its line-up owed to aggregate injuries, and skipper Pat Cummins hinted that Murphy was apt to beryllium named successful his team.

A Test debut would proceed what's been a meteoric emergence for the 22-year-old, who has conscionable 7 first-class appearances nether his belt, albeit with an awesome grounds of 29 wickets astatine an mean of 25.20.

Murphy is acceptable to spouse Nathan Lyon, meaning Australia volition play duplicate off-spinners for the archetypal clip successful a Test since 1988 erstwhile rotation duo Tim May and Peter Taylor lined up unneurotic successful Pakistan.

The Victorian youngster looks acceptable to bushed retired left-arm spinner Ashton Agar, and Cummins downplayed concerns implicit the onslaught lacking assortment with 2 off-spinners.

"I deliberation successful these conditions, they truly spin, truthful conscionable truly bully bowling is what you're after, being accordant clip and clip again," the Australian skipper said.

"I don't deliberation you request to spell searching for thing more, the conditions volition travel to you. You've seen Nath (Lyon) beryllium really, truly effectual implicit here.

"A batch of bat-pad, limb gaffe benignant of catches for the right-handers, truthful ideally, you've got assortment successful immoderate attack, but I don't deliberation it has to beryllium the lawsuit conscionable for that sake.

Green improbable to play successful archetypal Test

"I deliberation he'd (Murphy) beryllium arsenic prepared arsenic helium could be. He's been bowling beautifully successful the nets implicit here. He's started truly good for Victoria successful first-class cricket.

"If helium got the nod, he's got Nathan Lyon down the different extremity that helium tin enactment with."

The archetypal Test of the four-match bid gets underway astatine 3pm AEDT connected Thursday.

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