Cheteshwar Pujara concerned about Indian bowling combination for MCG Test

India batter Cheteshwar Pujara is concerned about the Indian bowling line-up ahead of the Boxing Day Test match. Pujara feels that the team's bowling is looking slightly weak going into the 4th Test match.

In Short

• India are playing Australia next at the MCG
• Cheteshwar Pujara talks about the team's bowling combination
• India have fielded a different line-up in every game

India batter Cheteshwar Pujara is concerned about India's bowling prowess going into the Boxing Day Test match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. India are playing their 4th Test match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Melbourne, having drawn the previous Test match at the Gabba.

Speaking on Star Sports before the Boxing Day game, Pujara has raised alarms about the depth of the Indian bowling unit. So far, Jasprit Bumrah has been the only consistent performer in the Indian line-up, who has looked threatening in every single spell that he has bowled.

Pujara analysed the Indian team's performance ahead of the 4th Test, and said that while the batting output had improved due to the tail-enders putting up a resilient display at the Gabba, the bowling output however had gone down.

"My first biggest question and slight reason for concern is that the Indian bowling is looking slightly weak. The batting has improved a little. The top five have not batted well but the middle order and lower-middle order have done that," Cheteshwar Pujara said on Star Sports.

"Ravindra Jadeja and Nitish (Kumar Reddy), and even the tailenders, (Jasprit) Bumrah and Akash Deep, contributed with the bat. There is a weakness somewhere or the other in bowling. So what team will you play, that's the biggest question," Pujara further added.

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India have fielded a different line-up in each of the first three Test matches. The spin bowler's position has been the most fragile, with Washington Sundar, Ravichandran Ashwin and then Ravindra Jadeja playing the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Test respectively.

Now India are one man short in their squad with R Ashwin retiring from all forms of international cricket after the Gabba Test match. It is expected that India will not change their line-up for the MCG Test match - unless there is a injury in the build-up to the game.

India have the back up of Harshit Rana and Prasidh Krishna in the fast bowling department, while Sarfaraz Khan and Dhruv Jurel are waiting in the ranks on the batting side of things.