India team selection for Australia Test series

Hyderabad Feb 14 : The Indian team for the first two Tests against Australia has remained unchanged after the selectors decided to retain the 16 members who were selected for the one-off Test against Bangladesh.  (Also read: Virat Kohli focussed on next target: 'Our minds and hearts on Australia series')

Abhinav Mukund, had been recalled into the Test side after six years ahead of the Hyderabad Test while left-arm chinaman bowler Kuldeep Yadav  had replaced injured leg-spinner Amit Mishra shortly before the Test versus Bangladesh. Both men have retained their places. (Also read: Australia trying to form game plan for Virat Kohli, says Steve Smith)

The first Test in the series for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy commences at Pune's Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium on February 23 to be followed by the next three games at Bengaluru (March 4-8), Ranchi (March 16-20) and Dharamshala (March 25-29).

The Australian squad, led by Steve Smith, arrived in Mumbai on Monday ahead of the four-match rubber and will play a three-day warm-up game against an India A squad led by Hardik Pandya at the Cricket Club of India's Brabourne Stadium from February 17-19 before proceeding to Pune.

Squad: Virat Kohli, Murali Vijay, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Karun Nair, Wriddhiman Saha, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Jayant Yadav, Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Amit Mishra, Abhinav Mukund, Hardik Pandya