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Aussies Playing Usual Mind Games, Ashwin Dismisses Smith's Comment On Relevance Of Tour Games
AS they get ready for the start of the Border-Gavaskar Test series next week, divergent voices have emerged from the Australian camp and former players about the team going directly into the first Test in Nagpur without playing a tour match.
Former captain and key batter, Steve Smith, is one of those who support this move not to have a tour match, claiming them to be "irrelevant" as the tourists usually get to play the Test matches on tracks that are completely opposite to those provided for tour games. He said that Australians would gain more training at the mini-camp at Alur near Bengaluru than playing the tour game.
