WACA-Perth

Last time around when India played a test match on this ground, a certain gentleman called Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar announced himself to the world, playing one of his best knocks, all this at the age of 18. Still that was not enough as India lost the match eventually by a pretty big margin. Also this was the last time that Australia went with an all pace attack, after 16 years down the road, they are once again going into this test match with four pace bowlers.

Shaun Tait gets a game, that can be good news for India because for all that pace he generates, is pretty erratic and scoring against his bowling should not be a problem, provided they can see off Bret lee and Stuart Clark.

Hayden is injured so Chris Rogers get to make his debut on his home ground. Other than that the Aussie batting looks solid as usual and the Indians better be vary of Gilchrist because he hit a 57-ball century against England in the last test match played here.

Indians have finally decided to drop Yuvraj, Sehwag comes in for him and should open which means Dravid will come to bat in his regular batting position. Sehwag can be the trump card on this kind off a wicket, which suits his batting style. Other change should be Pathan coming in place of Bajji, taking the pitch into consideration but stranger things have happened on this tour that make me a bit skeptical.

The pitch at WACA seems to have finally got back it's pace and bounce which made fast bowlers queuing up to have a bowl here in the past . Judging by the previous track record, you might want to punt against India but Indians have showed so far that they are up for it and I won't be surprised if they pull a fast one on Australia, provided the batsmen stick to their task and put up a decent score on the board.