LIVE: 'Fantastic' gesture as Aussies take a knee

Aussie skipper Pat Cummins explained wherefore helium opted to bat archetypal astatine Perth Stadium.

"It looks similar a bully wicket, mightiness beryllium a small spot successful it," helium said.

"But we backmost our batters here.

"Hopefully a spot of gait and bounce the full match, spot of writer present but if thing I deliberation it volition quicken up.

"Then time 4 and five we don't cognize however it's going to react."

TEAMS

Australia: David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Travis Head, Cameron Green, Alex Carey, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, Nathan Lyon

West Indies: Kraigg Brathwaite (c), Tagenarine Chanderpaul, Nkrumah Bonner, Jermaine Blackwood, Kyle Mayers, Jason Holder, Joshua Da Silva (wk), Roston Chase, Alzarri Joseph, Kemar Roach, Jayden Seales

Australian skipper Pat Cummins says he's not disquieted by the imaginable of being booed by the parochial Western Australian assemblage astatine Optus Stadium.

Exactly however galore supporters crook up mightiness beryllium different issue, with reports of dilatory summons income for the match.

But with Perth's favourite lad Justin Langer ousted from the nationalist coaching occupation past summer, there's suggestions the Australian players whitethorn not person specified a favourable reception during the archetypal Test.

Speaking to Oliver Peterson from Nine Radio's 6PR, Cummins said helium had nary power implicit what the fans do.

"That's up to them, I'm a grown man, I don't deliberation I'd ever spell and beryllium successful a assemblage and boo someone," helium explained.

"If radical privation to bash that, what are you going to do? We're going to beryllium retired determination trying our best.

"We're passionate, we're motivated, we're going to springiness it a bully crack."

Pressed arsenic to whether the squad was "on the nose" with the public, peculiarly successful Perth, Cummins denied determination was a problem.

"I deliberation it's a spot antithetic to our lived experience," helium said.

"We've been truly good received implicit the past 12 months.

"I cognize immoderate radical mightiness not hold with headlines oregon whatever, but it's got thing to bash with what we're doing retired there."

The Australian skipper has been successful the headlines successful caller months implicit claims helium pressured Cricket Australia to extremity a $40 cardinal sponsorship with Alinta Energy, reports helium has denied.

Langer's ongoing beef implicit the mode his clip arsenic manager came to an extremity exploded backmost into the nationalist domain past week, erstwhile helium referred to the "cowards" wrong Australian cricket that person been leaking against him.

"I deliberation off-field issues ne'er truly help. I deliberation sometimes they're astir apt seen arsenic a small spot indulgent," Cummins explained.

"I deliberation the players person been fantastic.

"I don't deliberation we've publically done thing but speech up the game."