It has taken just two Tests and the selection debate is raging again across India. How can the Indian team management continue to make blunders in selection, and how can Virat Kohli continue to defend them with a straight bat after a match? After the loss in Perth, Kohli said: "Having a look at the pitch on Day One and how we thought it would play on the first three days, it exactly played out that way." The golden rule of thumb on a pitch that is heavily grassy is to play Bhuvneshwar Kumar. But when Kohli was asked why Bhuvi was omitted, his immediate response was, "Bhuvi hasn't played a lot of four-day cricket recently".

Bhuvi misses out
Before the start of the Test series, India had the luxury of playing in a four-day tour match, a game in which Bhuvneshwar didn't bowl a single delivery. So, this begs the question that if Bhuvneshwar was never going to be tried in the practice match and he didn't play in Perth, on what merit will the swing bowler be picked in the upcoming Tests? If there was ever a pitch that Bhuvneshwar was going to play on, it had to be Perth's grassy surface. But the team management felt he was not ready for the tough grind of Test cricket.