KL Rahul, Abhimanyu Easwaran Pitted as Rohit Sharma's Back-up Fail vs Australia A

It was a disastrous start for India A side ahe of Border-Gavaskar Trophy as y succumbed to a batting collapse versus Australia A. Spotlight was on KL Rahul and Abhimanyu Easwaran as y are potential replacements for India captain Rohit Sharma , who is set to miss a Test. In first session of second ufficial Test, Rahul perished for four while Easwaran failed to open his account. It was disastrous as in time India was reduced to 11 for four. ball seemed to be doing a lot in opening morning at Melbourne Cricket ground. se are alarming signs for Indian team which is set to take on Australia in a five-match Test series. Dhruv Jurel was most impressive Indian batter as he top-scored with 80 runs. Devdutt Pikkal scored 26, he seemed set when he was dismissed. 

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Merely four batters got more than 10 runs which goes on to highlight that it was a batting failure. India eventually was bundled out for 161 runs. Michael Nesser was pick of Australian bowlers with four wickets to his name. It would w be interesting to see how Indian bowlers respond. Surely, it has been a pitch that has favoured bowlers up until w. 

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India A squ for 2nd first-class game: 

Ruturaj Gaikw (C), Abhimanyu Easwaran (VC), Sai Sudharsan, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Devdutt Pikkal, Ricky Bhui, Baba Indrajith, Ishan Kishan (WK), Abishek Porel (WK), Mukesh Kumar, Khaleel Ahmed, Navdeep Saini, Manav Suthar, Tanush Kotian, Prasidh Krishna, KL Rahul, Dhruv Jurel (wk)