<p class="title">India openers K L Rahul and Murali Vijay had useful outings on the final day of their only warm-up match on Saturday in a confidence booster ahead of next week's opening test against Australia.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rahul and Vijay are expected to start the innings for the touring side, who lost exciting 19-year-old batting prospect Prithvi Shaw for the Adelaide opener with an ankle injury.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Shaw was taken to hospital for scans after he rolled his left ankle when he tumbled over the rope during the third day of the warm-up contest on Thursday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rahul has struggled for runs in recent times and India's third opening option, Murali Vijay, is on the comeback trail after he was dropped following a poor tour of England earlier this year.</p>.<p class="bodytext">India, the world's top-ranked test side, got a second chance to bat in the tour match after the Cricket Australia XI kept them on the field for more than 151 overs, finally getting dismissed for 544 with a first innings lead of 186.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rahul, who was dismissed for three in the first innings, made a stroke-filled 62, hitting eight fours and a six in his knock after an opening stand of 109.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Vijay, dropped for the home two-test series against West Indies, scored 129, his innings studded with 16 fours and five sixes. He smashed off-spinner Jake Carder for 26 in an over to reach his hundred.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The touring side finished on 211 for two with the four-day non-first class match ending in a draw.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Earlier, four batsmen from the representative side scored half-centuries, with wicketkeeper-batsman Harry Nielsen scoring 100 to make the Indian bowlers toil.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The test series begins in Adelaide on Thursday, with further matches in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney.</p>
<p class="title">India openers K L Rahul and Murali Vijay had useful outings on the final day of their only warm-up match on Saturday in a confidence booster ahead of next week's opening test against Australia.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rahul and Vijay are expected to start the innings for the touring side, who lost exciting 19-year-old batting prospect Prithvi Shaw for the Adelaide opener with an ankle injury.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Shaw was taken to hospital for scans after he rolled his left ankle when he tumbled over the rope during the third day of the warm-up contest on Thursday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rahul has struggled for runs in recent times and India's third opening option, Murali Vijay, is on the comeback trail after he was dropped following a poor tour of England earlier this year.</p>.<p class="bodytext">India, the world's top-ranked test side, got a second chance to bat in the tour match after the Cricket Australia XI kept them on the field for more than 151 overs, finally getting dismissed for 544 with a first innings lead of 186.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Rahul, who was dismissed for three in the first innings, made a stroke-filled 62, hitting eight fours and a six in his knock after an opening stand of 109.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Vijay, dropped for the home two-test series against West Indies, scored 129, his innings studded with 16 fours and five sixes. He smashed off-spinner Jake Carder for 26 in an over to reach his hundred.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The touring side finished on 211 for two with the four-day non-first class match ending in a draw.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Earlier, four batsmen from the representative side scored half-centuries, with wicketkeeper-batsman Harry Nielsen scoring 100 to make the Indian bowlers toil.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The test series begins in Adelaide on Thursday, with further matches in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney.</p>