The team that were favourites to clinch the 2018-19 Border-Gavaskar Trophy are now tackling some serious fitness issues. That didn't stop India's head coach Ravi Shastri from shooting from the lip in a Melbourne Test build-up press conference where he said that Ravindra Jadeja was suffering from a stiff shoulder for which he took an injection four days into the Australia tour.

Shastri said the team management didn't want to risk Jadeja, who "was 70 per cent to 80 per cent fit", for the second Test in Perth, but he also said the spinner will be part of the playing XI in Melbourne if he is even 80 per cent fit.