5 dangers for India in the Border-Gavaskar Series

#2 Not many batting options in the squad

Nair could make a comeback into the team

India has only Karun Nair and Abhinav Mukund on the bench of which the latter will most likely not get a game unless there are injuries. An expected change is a swap between Karun Nair and Jayant Yadav. Despite that, Nair whose last outing was a world record, unbeaten triple ton, may not really have the experience to deal with the quality of Mitchell Starc.

It is never easy to walk into the side and perform after having been dropped despite a triple ton. He is still young in his career and will look forward to the opportunity but the fact that India doesn’t have too many other experienced batsmen waiting in the wings is a strange problem, especially if Rahane doesn’t regain his form.

Rohit Sharma will probably play for Mumbai this week and may open up a new option but that could be too late.