If the South Australian locale had previously offered India any advantage, it's hard to see how it could survive a shift into playing evening cricket with a pink ball, something that Australia has done so much more of.Even so, it's rather neat that Australia's preferred bowling attack — Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood and Patrick Cummins — are the four leading wicket-takers in pink-ball cricket.
His slippery swing and slingy action has so much potential to make life difficult in the twilight sessions when the ball is hardest to pick up. For what it's worth, eight of the team picked for Adelaide played in that match, and Kohli made a ton.Which raises an interesting inversion from type, which is that Kohli happily named his XI the day before the Test began, while opposing captain Tim Paine declined.
The Indians are comfortable, with four bowlers and five batsmen who played in the series win two years ago. This wasn't a factor last year, with Warner was piling up a triple century against Pakistan. But on catching sight of the pitch this year from the grandstand, the first response was one of concern at a seemingly white-brown flat surface that could be an Adelaide road.Adelaide has been a happy hunting ground for India under the captaincy of Virat Kohli.