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Australia Head Coach Justin Langer Confirms Team for the Second Test

Australia head coach Justin Langer has recently confirmed that they wouldn't bring any change for their second test against the visitors - India which is scheduled to play at the Melbourne Cricket Ground from Saturday.

Notably, Australia registered an eight-wicket win over India in the first test in Adelaide after they successfully bundled out Virat Kohli-led Indian team for a record low score of 36 in their second innings as well.

"I'd be a pretty courageous man to change the XI for this test match after the last one," Langer said to the reporters on Thursday. "At this stage, unless something happens over the next few days – and things can happen in the world we live in – we’ll go in with the same XI, I’d say."

However, their swashbuckling opener David Warner, who earlier missed the first test because of a groin injury and still waiting to regain his full fitness, was likely the only player to have been included into the team. Meanwhile, in his absence, Joe Burns will again open alongside Matthew Wade. Burns' unbeaten 51 in the second innings helped to take the team home in the first test inside three days as well.

Meanwhile, MCG will allow up to 30,000 spectators for the match, which will be the first time that fans can attend a game since the Australian women's cricket team won the T20 World Cup final in March this year, just before the global pandemic novel COVID-19 hit the world.

"Thirty thousand (crowd) is better than none. And it wasn’t that long ago, probably a few weeks ago, that we wonder if we had a Boxing Day Test match in Melbourne. Every time I come here I pinch myself, playing at the MCG. I’ve come here a lot. It’s just an amazing stadium, the hype about it, and boys love playing here. The Indians will love, probably lot would have dreamt of playing here a Test match and Thirty thousand is better than none, and it certainly provides the atmosphere," concluded Langer.