Rohit Sharma as Test Captain - A new era begins

A new era begins in the history of the cricketing world today with Rohit Sharma taking over as the red ball captain. I believe this should have happened almost a decade back but better late than never I guess. I wish him good luck and hope he is extremely successful at this.

Some of the highlights from this test match.

• This is going to be Virat Kohli's 100th test match. Virat hasn't scored a century in more than 2 years across any format. It is clear he is not in the most supreme form. In fact Rohit Sharma has been in much better form that Virat but I am hoping Virat will hit a century today in his 100th test match. Let's wait and see what happens.

• Between Shreyas Iyer, Hanuma Vihari and Shubman Gill, one of them has to go and if I were captain, I would drop Gill from the mix. Iyer has had a phenomenal first few test matches and is looking like an incredible test match potential at least in Indian conditions. Vihari has been performing exceptionally well especially in tough situations so he deserves a chance I feel.

• This is the first time in about 11 years when neither Ajinkya Rahane nor Cheteshwar Pujara have been selected for the team XI. I am ok with Rahane being dropped but Pujara deserved to be on the team. Especially after his heroics in Australia. But what can you do? It is what it is.

Let's see how this game is going to turn out. Let the best team (India) win ;)