Australia look to boss India with pink ball under Adelaide lights

MELBOURNE : With noses bloodied and pride stung from the pounding in Perth, Australia will look to hit back with the pink ball in the second test against India at Adelaide Oval as the tourists welcome back returning skipper Rohit Sharma.

Australia have had plenty to ponder since their 295-run capitulation in the series-opener, which has been chewed over relentlessly by media and fans.

Few in the home team dressing room have been spared criticism, with preparations, selections and tactics all put under the microscope.

A side injury to frontline paceman Josh Hazlewood - the best of Australia's quicks in Perth - has added to the angst and means the hosts will have at least one change to the lineup.

For all that, the players are adamant no one is hitting the panic button just yet.

After all, Adelaide Oval has been a fortress for Australia with a succession of touring teams failing to adapt to the bright lights and swinging pink ball.

The pioneers of day-night test cricket, Australia have never lost a pink ball match at a venue where they blasted India's batsmen out for 36 in the last home series in 2020-21.

Australia can only draw confidence from that record, said wicketkeeper Alex Carey on Tuesday, who was bemused by the public's reaction to the defeat in Perth.

"It's quite a big reaction externally to one test loss," he told reporters.

"Internally we don't feel that."

Some may be feeling the pressure, though, ahead of another examination by India pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah.

Of Australia's top eight batsmen in Perth, only Mitchell Marsh avoided being caught up in Bumrah's eight-wicket blitz.

Australia coach and selector Andrew McDonald dismissed talk of changes to the batting lineup, giving the desperately out-of-form Marnus