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Monday, Aug 4, 2025
Australian pace bowler has Andrew Tye left his franchise Rajasthan Royals for 'personal reasons'.
The left-arm spinner snared three wickets in one over to change the complexion of the game.
Warner also joked that Kohli is his daughter's favourite player, besides himself, and Australia limited overs captain Aaron Finch.
Australia were 166/2 at the end of the rain-disrupted first day of the third Test.
Warner is expected to replace the dropped Joe Burns but selectors will have to decide whether Pucovski should partner Warner at the top of the order or retain Matthew Wade as a makeshift opener.
The left-handed opener missed the first two Tests in the series because of a groin injury and admitted, despite intensive rehabilitation, it was "highly doubtful" that he would be 100 per cent fit by the time the match starts on Thursday.
Opener Joe Burns has been dropped after twin failures in Melbourne.
Australia failed to record a half-century for the first time in a home Test match since 1988 in the second Test against India at the MCG.
Warner tore an adductor muscle in the lead-up to the four-Test series and was ruled out of the Adelaide opener as well as the ongoing Boxing Day Test in Melbourne.
Bowler Sean Abbott was also unable to rejoin the squad after leaving the Sydney bubble for treatment on a calf injury.
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