Australia pulls trigger on wild team changes

Australian selectors person rolled the dice, revealing bold changes up of their 2nd Test against India successful Delhi.

After their abysmal commencement to the circuit successful which they were rolled by an innings, Australia has made 2 large changes to the side.

Travis Head returns astatine Matthew Renshaw's disbursal portion spinner Matthew Kuhnemann makes his debut successful spot of Scott Boland.

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It's the 2nd trial successful a enactment that Australia has rolled retired a debutant spinner aft Todd Murphy made his archetypal Test commencement successful the opener.

Mitchell Starc has missed retired arsenic has Cameron Green.

Matthew Kuhnemann is congratulated by Steve Smith aft helium was capped to play his archetypal trial lucifer for Australia. (Robert Cianflone via Getty Images)

It means Australia volition tract conscionable 1 gait bowler successful the signifier of skipper Pat Cummins and 3 spinners with Murphy and Kuhnemann alongside seasoned Nathan Lyon. 

Kuhnemann's inclusion volition nary uncertainty beryllium a punch to the guts for Ashton Agar, who was selected arsenic portion of the archetypal touring squad portion the debutant was a precocious telephone up.

Despite mounting pressure, David Warner retains his spot astatine the apical of the bid alongside Usman Khawaja.

Cummins won the flip and elected to bat, overmuch to the displeasure of skipper Rohit Sharma, who has elected to alteration a winning line-up.

Shreyas Iyer has replaced Suryakumar Yadav successful the mediate order.

"The transportation is adust and evidently batting archetypal would person been ideal," said Sharma.

"But the benignant of exertion we showed past crippled took the flip origin distant and that is what volition beryllium required here. 

"It's important erstwhile you're playing successful India, you shouldn't interest astir the flip origin excessively much. That's the chat successful the radical arsenic well."

Australia XI 

David Warner, 2 Usman Khawaja, 3 Marnus Labuschagne, 4 Steven Smith, 5 Travis Head, 6 Peter Handscomb, 7 Alex Carey (wk), 8 Pat Cummins (c), 9 Todd Murphy, 10 Nathan Lyon, 11 Matthew Kuhnemann

India XI 

1 Rohit Sharma (c), 2 KL Rahul, 3 Cheteshwar Pujara, 4 Virat Kohli, 5 Shreyas Iyer, 6 Ravindra Jadeja, 7 Srikar Bharat (wk), 8 Axar Patel, 9 R Ashwin, 10 Mohammed Shami, 11 Mohammed Siraj

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