Australia vs Proteas 1st test preview

The 1st test of Australia vs Proteas test series starts tomorrow. Australia have revealed their playing eleven for the match. This is going to be a very high-stakes series will the World test Championships final position up for grabs.

Australia will be looking to continue their momentum by beating West Indies 2-0. The Australians will definitely be the favourites to start off. Proteas won't be an easy opponent as they have, the best record against Australia in tests in the recent past winning three back-to-back test series in Australia.

Proteas Squad this time only consists of 4 players who have toured Australia before, they are Elgar, Bavuma, Rabada and Maharaj. The rest are on their 1st tour of Australia and will be looking to make the most of this opportunity as this could be their 1st and last tour of Australia. A player like De Bruyn and Klassen will look to make the most of this opportunity as this series marks their return to the Proteas test squad.

Proteas players in the past have done very in Australia on their 1st tour and fans will be hoping for more of the same from this lot of players. Australian conditions are very similar to the conditions back in South Africa and therefore SA teams have always found it easier to adapt to conditions and I will hope for the same to happen this time.

Players on both sides have gained some timely form. The Australians playing a 2-match series against West Indies. Proteas playing gained game time playing 2 rounds of domestic cricket in SA and a warmup match in Australia in lead up to this series.

I expect this series to be a hard-fought series between both teams and could see both teams' batsmen and bowlers battling it out fiercely.

I think SA will stick to 5 bowlers' combination for this series and trust 5 batsmen and a wicketkeeper at No6.

Australia Team 1: David Warner, 2: Usman Khawaja, 3: Marnus Labuschagne, 4: Steve Smith, 5: Travis Head, 6: Cameron Green, 7: Alex Carey. 8: Pat Cummins, 9: Mitchell Starc, 10: Scott Boland, 11: Nathan Lyon

Proteas Predicted 11: 1: Dean Elgar, 2: Sarel Erwee, 3: Rassie van der Dussen, 4: Temba Bavuma/Theunis de Bruyn, 5: Khaya Zond/ Heinrich Klassen, 6 Kyle Verreynne, 7: Marco Jansen, 8: Keshav Maharaj, 9: Kagiso Rabada, 10: Arich Nortje, 11: Lungi Ngidi

Writer: Ebrahim Yusuf Omar

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