However, Steve Smith and George Bailey both scored centuries as Australia cruised to a five-wicket win with four balls to spare.
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Shaun Marsh had been dropped from the test side even after scoring 182 but Warner’s absence will give him chance for atleast two matches.
While Warner is away on paternal leave, (was blessed with a second child early on Thursday), and will be rejoining the squad for the Melbourne ODI, Mitchell Marsh has been rested to manage his workload.
India made one change to the team that lost the opening match in Perth on Tuesday, bringing in Ishant Sharma for fellow paceman Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
“But when you do have the good days, they’re really rewarding”.
“Personally, it was important that I could get the team off to a good start and then carry on the momentum from there”. I want to get big hundreds for the team. On bouncy Australian tracks, the key to success is playing with soft hands and the Mumbaikar said he has exactly been doing that.
“When me and Virat were batting in the middle, the idea was to capitalise and bat as long as possible because we had a couple of newcomers coming in the side in the middle order”, explained Rohit. “But certainly, yes, we know there is an extra bit of bounce and that will help the fast bowlers more than the spinners”. Kohli’s 67-ball knock included four boundaries.
“We weren’t able to get back into the game”. They batted really well they created big partnership and failed to get break through in the middle.
He again combined with Kohli to provide the substance of the India innings at the Gabba on Friday as the tourists won the toss and batted. Usman Khawaja misses out. “Since Boof (Lehmann) has taken over as coach, he has given us a lot of confidence as a batting group – to take on the opposition”. “The only thing is, we need to learn how to take wickets in the middle, how to build pressure in the middle overs”.
India 1 Rohit Sharma, 2 Shikhar Dhawan, 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Ajinkya Rahane, 5 Manish Pandey, 6 MS Dhoni (capt & wk), 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 R Ashwin, 9 Umesh Yadav, 10 Barinder Sran, 11 Ishant Sharma.
Eight years later, Rohit was back in the same country – Australia – as one of the most risky batsmen in one-day cricket, breaking records with impunity.
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Shaun Marsh, Aaron Finch, Steven Smith (C), George Bailey, Glenn Maxwell, Matthew Wade (wk), James Faulkner, John Hastings, Scott Boland, Josh Hazlewood, Joel Paris.
