CHANDIGARH, India: Simon Katich and Shane Watson underlined their importance to Australia's Test batting by posting centuries as the tourists marched to 1-319 on day one of the match against the Indian Board President's XI.
Prior middle-order collapses suggest Katich (104 retired) and Watson (115) will need to put on more substantial stands if the team is to be successful against India, and then during the quest for the Ashes.
Katich said he and Watson are intent on building bigger partnerships this summer, after not always capitalising on strong starts in their first 12 months together.
''We tried last summer and both of us were getting 80 or 90 and that was it, but definitely in this next period there's no doubt we'd really like to get some really big scores,'' Katich said.
''It will be tougher because we're playing better teams, but it certainly would be nice to get us off to 0-100, 0-150 and lay that platform.''
SA pace bowler Peter George was chosen for his first appearance in Australian colours after edging out the left-armer Mitchell Starc.
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