Former India coach Ravi Shastri (Getty Images) Ravi Shastri has seen from up close most of the Indian players on the tour of Australia for the Border Gavaskar Trophy during his successful tenure as India coach, which included historic maiden series triumph on Australian soil. Shastri and Rahul Dravid, the last two men to sit in the chair of Team India's head coach, are probably the best placed besides their successor Gautam Gambhir to decide the 11 players most likely to fire as a unit and deliver a win in the opening Test of the BGT in Perth , beginning November 22. On that note, Shastri spoke on 'The ICC Review' and revealed his playing eleven as the visitors begin their defence of the BGT in the home stretch of the World Test Championship (WTC), which requires India to win either 4-0 or 4-1 to secure a place in the WTC final.
"It's horses for courses in many ways. Most of the team will pick themselves, but there'll be one or two cases where you might have to just go and dig deep and go with gut feeling," said the former coach and 1983 World Cup winner. To start with, India are likely to be without regular captain Rohit Sharma, who awaits the birth of his second child in Mumbai.
That leaves India to find a batter to partner Yashasvi Jaiswal as opener. With KL Rahul and Abhimanyu Easwaran doing nothing of note in the unofficial Tests between India A and Australia A, Shastri believes Shubman Gill will come out to open with the Jaiswal. "That's a tough one and selectors have a.