LIVE: Proposed venue swap leaves Aussie Test in jeopardy

The 3rd Test betwixt India and Australia could beryllium moved to a antithetic venue with the existent ground, the Dharamsala's Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, reportedly not acceptable to big planetary cricket.

HPCA Stadium has not hosted a first-class lucifer since aboriginal 2020 and precocious underwent renovations but caller rainfall successful the metropolis has delayed the work.

According to ESPNcricinfo, the Board of Control for Cricket successful India's squad of experts is expected to behaviour an inspection of the crushed implicit the coming days to find whether the crushed is acceptable to big Test cricket.

"There is inactive immoderate enactment that needs to beryllium done adjacent the broadside country of the pitch. We are hopeful that things volition beryllium acceptable earlier the game," a HPCA root told The Indian Express.

"The HPCA volition instrumentality a telephone aft the BCCI inspection. We person relaid the full aboveground with due drainage and person added sprinklers to the ground. Some enactment is inactive pending and arsenic 3 weeks are near we consciousness the enactment volition beryllium completed."

Visakhapatnam, Rajkot, Pune and Indore person been cited arsenic back-up venues if the fixture needs to beryllium moved.