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,

Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja weren't part of Team India's XI in the first Test of the series in Perth.

Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin did not feel hurt after getting snubbed from the Perth Test match, said Abhishek Nayar. Nayar said that both seniors were positive in their outlook and understood the decisions that the management had made.