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Australia vs India Ist Test Day 1 (Crictime) Live Streaming: Australia and India will collide on the historical boxing day test match, the encounter would be fascinating keeping in view India's strong batting and Australia's strong bowling attack while India have questions marks over their bowling attack as Australia have questions marks over their batting.

Australia enter the match having lost a Test to New Zealand for the first time in 18 years, and with the batsmen having been submitted for extra remedial work against the swinging ball. The Aussies have been boosted by the return of Shaun Marsh and the inclusion of the solid opening batsman Ed Cowan, but will have to improve markedly in their resilience as a batting collective. Ricky Ponting and Michael Hussey, the two thirty-somethings in the middle order, have the task ahead of them to prove they deserve to keep their spots after recent misadventures with the bat. They will hope for brighter days against India's attack.

Australia: 1 David Warner, 2 Ed Cowan, 3 Shaun Marsh, 4 Ricky Ponting, 5 Michael Clarke (capt), 6 Michael Hussey, 7 Brad Haddin (wk), 8 Peter Siddle, 9 James Pattinson, 10 Nathan Lyon, 11 Ben Hilfenhaus.

India (probable): 1 Virender Sehwag, 2 Gautam Gambhir, 3 Rahul Dravid, 4 Sachin Tendulkar, 5 Virat Kohli, 6 VVS Laxman, 7 MS Dhoni (capt, wk), 8 R Ashwin, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Umesh Yadav.