be him he failed with the bat too after a promising debut series against england considering the total flop by indias batsmen adding cover could be the way to go in which case karun nair slots back for his first opportunity since he scored an unbeaten 303 against england in chennai in december the uncapped hardik pandya is the other candidate considering he offers a handy mediumpace option a wicketless test also puts ishant sharmas place in doubt with bhuvneshwar kumar likely to step in probable xi 1 murali vijay 2 kl rahul 3 cheteshwar pujara 4 virat kohli capt 5 ajinkya rahane 6 wriddhiman saha wk 7 r ashwin 8 ravindra jadeja 9 jayant yadavhardik pandyakarun nair 10 bhuvneshwar kumar 11 umesh yadavaustralia no major reason to tinker with that team after the colossal win but shaun marshs contributions of 16 and 20 make him a candidate for the bench considering it was a harsh call to drop usman khawaja for the last test the other marsh allrounder mitchell scored 4 and 31 and did not bowl ball in pune but will keep his place in order to maintain a balance probable xi 1 david warner 2 matt renshaw 3 shaun marshusman khawaja 4 steven smith capt 5 peter hanscomb 6 mitchell marshglenn maxwell 7 matthew wade 8 mitchell starc 9 steve okeefe 10 josh hazlewood 11 nathan lyon quotesin these conditions whilst all the talk has been about the spinners hes mitchell starc still our biggest weapon its great if hes in the indians heads hopefully he can take a few wickets for us mitchell marsh we only look at what we need to tick if we keep ticking those boxes results go our way and thats what wed like to do here anil kumble