australias plight could easily be gauged from the fact that eight of their batsmen could not touch doubledigit scores in chennai while only four of them could score more than 10 runs in kolkata the strategy has worked well for the australians in keeping the indians quiet in first powerplay overs chinaman yadav who became only third indian to get a hattrick in the oneday format in kolkata is gradually giving the team management confidence that he can be indias next big spinner so its time that pandey who had a decent run during india as tour of south africa and jadhav come up with something special australia on the other hand need david warner to fire at top of the order and glenn maxwell to see the side through in the middle order the 70yard short boundary on all sides would give the batsmen of both the teams chance to get a lot of runs if the top order floundered in the seriesopener the middle order squirmed in kolkata where the bowlers won the match for the hosts jadhav has proved that he is a utility batsman but he needs to be consistent and lift the side when its faced with crunch situations but more than anything he needs all his batsmen to buck up and provide some resistance they have badly missed aaron finch who has not played as yet due to a calf muscle injury and if he comes back it will be a big boost for them in the absence of r ashwin and ravindra jadeja both yadav and chahal have done remarkably well adam zampa was taken to the cleaners by pandya in chennai and was immediately dropped match starts at 1330 ist kedar jadhav and manish pandey have not made any contribution in the teams cause so far and to keep their places they have to do something worthwhile these are no alien conditions for them having played for their ipl franchises for the last few years it was no small task for virat kohli and his men to defend a modest 252 on the eden garden wicket which despite being a twopaced track favoured the batsmen coulternile has unswervingly put the ball outside off stump on good length reminding of the australian great glenn mcgrath who was always a thorn in indias flesh with his teasing perfect line and length squadsindia virat kohli c rohit sharma ajinkya rahane manish pandey kedar jadhav ms dhoni wk hardik pandya bhuvneshwar kumar kuldeep yadav yuzvendra chahal jasprit bumrah umesh yadav mohammed shami ravindra jadeja and lokesh rahul pat cummins has also done reasonably well bowling in tandem with coulternile their approach straightjacketed the indian batsmen in both the matches even as the home batsmen restrained themselves from playing atrocious shots in kolkata the selectors have named the squad only for the first three odis just the way hardik pandya who is fast establishing himself as fastbowling allrounder did it in chennai chahal has been very effective