SL VS AUS 2025: Steve Smith confirms the opening of Australia for the first Test against Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka are all ready hosts Australia for a A 2 -match series testscheduled to start on January 29 in Galle. Islanders enter the test battle with some recent failures, losing 0-2 in their previous tour South Africa. The Sri Lankan team will ask for him to be strongly refused at home, but they face a difficult challenge in the form of visitors in Australia.
Australia, on the other hand, enters this series on the back of the dominant performance against Indiawhere they beat Border-Gavaskar Trophy 3-1, showing their great strength in the longest format. Because two teams come out of different results, this series promises to be an exciting competition.
Steve Smith confirms the introductory pair of Australia
In front of the first test, the Australian captain Steve Smith an open couple confirmed. Although the USman Khawai was somehow obviously a choice, the problem was about the ideal partner for Khawai. Smith, however, confirmed the open couple in the form of Khawaja and attacking the Butter Travis head.
Smith emphasized the impressive performances of Head India, where he treated the new ball well, even performed dizziness under pressure with his aggressive approach.
“Travis Head) will go to the top, beyond that, I think he will be pretty stable. In India he really made a nice against the new ball. He immediately put it under pressure, and we know how to hit the stitches well if they come with it. The essence. will good fun watching it “, said Smith in front of the first test.
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Smith stays firm in the form of full play xi
While Smith was clear to open, he decided not to discover the complete playing XI for the match. The Australian captain stressed that the management of the team would carefully assess the conditions before making any final decisions.
“We’ll wait and see what we get, probably the morning in the game and then start from there. But things can change quickly, this part of the world, the sun was not much. So we’ll still look at Wickket, and from there we will name a team in BACS . Smith added.
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