
Australia skipper Pat Cummins believes that the upcoming Border-Gavaskar series against India is an important one and there's no reason Australian should not do well in the five Tests.
"It's kind of the one big thing that I want to tick off," Cummins said to news agency AAP on Tuesday (Oct 29). "Particularly winning at home. Most Australians, me included, expect us to do well whenever we play at home."
It is to be noted that Australia have lost the last four Test series against India, including two at home and two away, and Cummins acknowledged that the upcoming series is a big one.
"We've lost the (last) two series against them (in Australia), so this is a big one. We feel like our team's in a really good place, so we've got no reason why we shouldn't perform really well."
The Aussie skipper also said that he always expects his team to do well, especially, against India.
"I just always expect us to do well against whoever we play. But India, particularly, is a big year, big season," he added.
India's tour of Australia begins on 22 November in Perth before the day-night second Test in Adelaide from December 6-10. The third Test will be played at the Gabba in Brisbane from 14-18 December before the Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) from December 26-30. The last and final Test will be played at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) from Jan 3-7.
India's squad for Australia tour: Rohit Sharma (C), Jasprit Bumrah (VC), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant (WK), Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel (WK), R Ashwin, R Jadeja, Mohd. Siraj, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar