Play like a kid in the backyard, Cummins advises Sam Konstas

Australia desperately want someone to counter Jasprit Bumrah. India's pace spearhead has been running through their batting line-up for fun in the series and the hosts haven't really managed to get back at him in any way.

- Ashish Magotra

MELBOURNE: It's one-way traffic of the scary kind.

So, despite opener Nathan McSweeney not doing much worse compared to Usman Khawaja, Australia dumped the former and brought in a 19-year-old whose belief and fearlessness sets him apart. Sam Konstas, all of 11 first-class matches old, backs himself – for he doesn't know what fear is yet, and against Bumrah that might be a good thing.

“I think you still always wanna do well,” said Cummins, who made his debut as an 18-year-old in 2011. “I was saying this to Sam the other day, I remember as an 18-year-old I was thinking I've got a lot more leeway because I was young. I almost felt like if I didn't have a great game it wasn't my fault, it was the selector's fault for picking me. I was like, 'well, they're the idiots that picked an 18-year-old. You are so young starting out your career, it's Boxing Day, it doesn't get any better than this, so just enjoy the moment'."