New Delhi . It rarely happens that the Indian team is going on a tour and the team lacks batsmen. The team selected for the Gavaskar-Border Trophy is desperately looking for an opener who can start the innings with Yashasvi Jaiswal. Both the team management and the selectors were hoping that some opener would be found from the India A match going on in Melbourne. That is why the Indian selectors played 5 openers in different positions in this match, but instead of solving the puzzle, it got badly complicated.

In the match going on in Melbourne, the situation is such that the top 5 batsmen failed miserably in both the innings. The interesting thing is that all five of them open for their respective domestic teams. K Rahul, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Sai Sudarshan, Rituraj Gaikwad and Devdutt Paddikal. All of them were seen falling to the fast bowlers of Australia A.

Five openers failed, the game is getting worse 

In both innings of Melbourne, India A batsmen were seen dancing like a top. Many cricket experts are now beginning to think that if this is the situation against the A team, then what will Australia's main bowlers do. If you look at the scoreboard of both the innings, the picture will become clear that how big the problem has become. K Rahul - 1st innings 4 runs 2nd innings 10 runs, K Rahul, Abhimanyu Easwaran - 1st innings 0 2nd innings 17 runs, Sai Sudarshan - 1st innings 0 2nd innings 3 runs, Rituraj Gaikwad 1st innings 4 runs 2nd innings 11 runs and Devdutt Paddikal 1st innings 26 runs 2nd innings 1 run. These figures are scary because the Perth Test is to start from 22nd November and the answer to who will be the opener is not being found.

Who will play Perth test now?

Nothing was achieved from the practice match and the question remains as to who will be Jaiswal's partner in the Gavaskar-Border Trophy. K Rahul and Abhimanyu Easwaran opened in both the innings of the practice match which indicates that these two are the first choice of the team management. Now if both of them fail, then the selectors and the captain will look at the domestic form where Easwaran will have an edge over Rahul and if sources are to be believed, despite failing in Australia so far, Abhimanyu has been asked to be ready for the first two Tests.