The likes of Yashaswi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Sarfaraz Khan, Nitish Reddy, Harshit Rana, Akash Deep and Prasidh Krishna are all on their maiden tours to Australia.

Ravichandran Ashwin and Steve Smith will face off during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy starting November 22 in Perth.

Nathan Lyon, expected to play a vital role in the upcoming five-Test Border-Gavaskar series, is a more "complete" bowler compared to India's Ravichandran Ashwin, former South African bowler Paul Adams said.

"A fanboy moment and a flight journey to savour forever with the legendary Vishwanathan Anand," is how Ashwin captioned his Instagram post.

Ravichandran Ashwin has opened up on the defeat which has led to criticism of the team from all corners.

De Villiers suggested that RCB should go back for a player who used to represent them before.

Sunil Gavaskar believes that the upcoming Test series against Australia can decide the futures of senior cricketers like Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Ravichandran Ashwin.

Gilchrist is certain that the series loss to New Zealand will scar the atmosphere of the Indian dressing room.

Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, R Ashwin and Jasprit Bumrah were to participate in the Duleep Trophy before New Zealand Tests. But they refused.

Chappell called out the choice to use reverse sweeps in Test cricket, and stated his shock at the fact that Team India had specifically practised playing the reverse sweep ahead of the third Test in Mumbai.