India's assistant coach Abhishek Nayar discussed team dynamics and the roles of senior players like Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja. He highlighted the importance of senior players accepting their exclusion from the playing XI for the benefit of the team.

There are teams where it becomes tough for seniors to accept their exclusion from the playing XI at the expense of a junior player but if there are elder statesmen like Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja,

Nayar believes that the whole team has bought into Rohit and Gambhir's philosophy, including the two spin greats.

India had benched both Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja for the first Test against Australia in Perth, picking Washington Sundar over the two senior spinners along with three pacers and a seam-bowling all-rounder.