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India fans were not happy with the team’s arrangements during day one of the one-off Test against Australia on Friday (March 6).<\/p>\n
No debut caps, repurposed jerseys for India in Australia Test <\/p>\n
The one-off day-night Test between the sides began at the WACA on Friday, with Australia winning the toss and electing to field in Alyssa Healy’s farewell Test. <\/p>\n
Much of the attention, however, went to a couple of unusual sights on the field. For starters, India’s four debutants on the day \u2013 Pratika Rawal<\/a>, Kashvee Gautam<\/a>, Sayali Satghare<\/a> and Kranti Gaud<\/a> \u2013 were all handed floppy hats at the start of play, rather than caps, as is the norm.<\/p>\n India’s last Test debutant, Richa Ghosh<\/a>, had been presented with the standard, dark blue Indian Test cap at the Wankhede Stadium in 2023.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Even apart from the debutants, India’s previously capped players sported their light blue caps on the field, usually worn in limited-overs matches, rather than the deep blue of the Test cap. This did not escape the attention of fans online. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n When all-rounder Gautam came out to bat, it was also noted that she did not have her own jersey; instead, she wore batter Harleen Deol<\/a>‘s, with a piece of tape stuck over the name on the back of the shirt. There may have been logistical challenges here, with Gautam having been a late replacement in the squad for Renuka Singh Thakur<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Curiously, this is not even the first Indian team in Australia this week to run into kit trouble; just days before their AFC Women’s Asia Cup opener, India’s football team were sent the wrong kits<\/a> by the All India Football Federation (AIFF). Instead of receiving their own jerseys, those manufactured for age-group teams were sent to them. <\/p>\n Australia take upper hand at the WACA <\/p>\n Meanwhile, the on-field action was dominated by Australia. Debutant Lucy Hamilton made the breakthrough with a cracking delivery to remove Smriti Mandhana<\/a>, before Annabel Sutherland<\/a> took over, picking up 4-46 to help skittle India for 198. Jemimah Rodrigues<\/a> top-scored with 52, while Gautam made an unbeaten 34 from No.9.<\/p>\n Australia ended day one on 96-3, before taking the game by the scruff of the neck on the morning of day two. Sutherland and Ellyse Perry<\/a>‘s 128-run fourth-wicket stand put them within 12 runs of India’s score before Perry departed for 76, having become Australia’s leading run-scorer in women’s Test cricket by then.<\/p>\n Follow Wisden for all cricket updates, including live scores<\/a>, match stats, quizzes<\/a> and more. Stay up to date with the latest cricket news<\/a>, player updates, team standings,<\/a> match highlights, video analysis<\/a> and live match odds<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India fans were not happy with the team’s arrangements during day one of the one-off Test against Australia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-462728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}