IND vs AUS: Australia made this trickster player in place of Pat Cummins, has a great record against India – ind vs aus steve smith replace pat cummins as australia captain remaining matches of border gavaskar test series

New Delhi: Australia captain Pat Cummins, who came for the Border-Gavaskar Test series on India tour, has returned to his country. In Australia, his mother is said to be seriously ill due to which he wants to spend some time with her. In such a situation, Steve Smith has been appointed as the captain of the team for the third Test match of the series. Smith was also the vice-captain in Australia’s Test team. In such a situation, it was decided to become his captain but it has to be seen whether the Kangaroo team can make a comeback under the leadership of Smith.

Australia got a crushing defeat in the first two matches of the Border-Gavaskar Test series. In the first Test match played in Nagpur, India defeated the visiting team by an innings and 132 runs. At the same time, Team India won the Delhi Test by 6 wickets. And the third match of the series will now be played in Indore from March 1 to 5. With the victory in the first two Tests, India has also retained the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

Smith will captain for the first time in India after sand paper scandal

Steve Smith will lead Australia for the first time against India in Test cricket after the Sand Paper Gate incident on South Africa tour in 2018. After the ball-tampering controversy in 2018, Smith was banned for one year from playing cricket, while there was a two-year ban for becoming captain.

Although when his ban was over, he was not given the captaincy of the team, but he was definitely given the vice-captaincy. Since then, he has captained his national team only twice, against England and the West Indies, in which he also led Australia to victory by a large margin.

Smith was the captain in 2017 on India tour

Steve Smith has an excellent record as captain against India. The last time he was captain in Test matches against India in the year 2017. His performance on this tour was also excellent. Although the Australian team lost the series 2-1 in 2017, but looking at his personal performance, he was much better than the rest. He scored 499 runs on this tour.

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