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  • Australia 136/5 at tea as Siraj picks maiden Test wicket

    Ravichandran Ashwin stole the show with two wickets while pacer Jasprit Bumrah provided India an early breakthrough to put Australia on the back foot in the first session of the Boxing Day Test here at Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday.

    Joe Burns (0) failed to capitalise on the start he got in the last Test as India drew the first blood. If Bumrah provided India an early breakthrough, it was Ashwin who stole the show with his two wickets (Wade and Smith) in the first session.

    The Tim Paine-led side’s score read 65/3 at the end of the first session on the first day. Marnus Labuschagne and Travis Head are currently unbeaten on 26 and four runs respectively.

    After opting to bat first, Australia got off to the worst possible start as pacer Jasprit Bumrah dismissed Burns for a ten-ball duck in the fifth over. Labuschagne then joined and Mathew Wade and in the middle and the duo tried to stitch the innings for the hosts as both batters saw off the early spell of Bumrah and Umesh Yadav.

    However, Ravichandran Ashwin dismissed Wade as he skied the ball, and all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja took a spectacular catch while running back.

    Ashwin then dismissed Steve Smith for a duck to put visitors on top. The Indian spinner’s back to back wickets left Australia at 38/3. Head then joined Labuschagne and the duo ensured that the hosts did not lose any more wickets before the end of the first session.

  • There are different rules for different players in Indian team: Sunil Gavaskar

    Former India skipper Sunil Gavaskar has said that treatment meted out to bowlers like R Ashwin and T Natarajan is biased as there are “different rules for different players”.
    The former India opener said that Ashwin has suffered within the Indian team because of his forthrightness. He also took a dig at the India skipper Virat Kohli, who got permission to leave the tour of Australia to attend the birth of his child, while T Natarajan who became a father during the IPL playoffs is yet to see his daughter.

    “For far too long Ashwin has suffered not for his bowling ability of which only the churlish will have doubts, but for his forthrightness and speaking his mind at meetings where most others just nod even if they don’t agree,” Gavaskar wrote in his column for Sportstar.

    “Any other country would welcome a bowler who has more than 350 Test wickets and not to forget four Test match centuries, too. However, if Ashwin doesn’t take heaps of wickets in one game he is invariably sidelined for the next one. That does not happen to established batsmen though. Even if they fail in one game they get another chance and another and another but for Ashwin the rules seem to be different,” he added.

  • Australia won the first Test, India’s embarrassing defeat

    Australia has taken a 1-0 lead in the four-Test series. Australia’s batsman Bunnors defeated Team India in the first Test by hitting six. The Australian team managed to win the Adelaide Test by 8 wickets. Brans remained unbeaten by 51 runs and gave Australia an easy win.

    Earlier the Indian innings ended on 36 runs. No Indian team batsman crossed the double-digit mark. Aggarwal scored the highest 9 runs, while Vihari managed to score 8 runs. Pujara, Rahane and Ashwin could not even open the account.

    For Australia, Hazlewood took 5 wickets for just 8 runs, while Cummins managed to take four wickets for 21 runs. This is the lowest score of Team India in the history of Test cricket. Indian batsmen have been very disappointed.

  • India record lowest Test score of 36, Australia need to 90 to win

     Virat Kohli-led side might have had a 62-run lead entering the third day of the first Test, but the side squandered the advantage as the batsmen failed to rise to the occasion and Australia made light work of the visitors.

    India was bundled out for 36 in the second innings, setting a target of 90 runs for Australia to go 1-0 up in the series. This score of 36 is India’s lowest-ever score in Test cricket. Before this, India’s lowest score was 42 in Test cricket against England in 1974.

    Resuming day three at 9/1, India lost the wickets of Jasprit Bumrah (2) and Cheteshwar Pujara (0) in quick succession as Pat Cummins sent both the batsmen back to the pavilion. In the very next over of Pujara’s dismissal, Josh Hazlewood prized the wickets of Mayank Agarwal (9) and Ajinkya Rahane (0), and India was left reeling at 15/5 with just a lead of 68 runs over the hosts.

    Things turned worse for the visitors as Pat Cummins had Virat Kohli (4) caught at the hands of Cameron Green at gully. Wriddhiman Saha and Ravichandran Ashwin also failed to leave a mark and India was left reeling at 26/8.

  • Looks like I’m making a debut again: Ashwin

    Indian team off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has said after the end of the second day of the Adelaide Test that after playing the Test match after so many months it felt like I am again projecting. In the first day-night Test match, the Indian team reduced the first innings to host Australia in Adelaide for only 191 runs.

    Ashwin bowling lethally took four wickets for 55 runs in 18 overs. At the end of the second day’s play, Ashwin said to reporters that after 10 months, he felt like coming back to the ground again as if he has again made a debut.

    He said, “I am very happy that the Indian team is playing Test cricket once again. Due to Corona virus infection, we did not expect that we would be able to return to the field soon. But after 10 months, it is good to return to Test cricket. After being away from the field for so long, now I feel like I have reappeared in Test cricket. “

    Ashwin made Australia’s star batsman Steven Smith out for one run and made batsmen like Cameron Green and Travis Head his victim. He said, “Smith’s dismissal was a big wicket for me. In the way he bats, it was a very important wicket for the team, I worked hard on my game during lockdown. In such a situation, I loved bowling here. I am very happy to be a part of the pink-ball test match. At the end of the second day’s play, India have scored nine runs after losing one wicket and the team has got a lead of 62 runs.

  • Ashwin, Umesh, Bumrah consolidate Australia, gain edge

    India got off to Australia on the first day – thanks to the amazing spin of off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin (4/55) and fast bowlers Umesh Yadav (3/40) and Jaspreet Bumrah (2/52). On the second day from the night test, on Friday, he scored a significant lead of 53 runs in the first innings by covering 191 runs.

    In this match being played with pink ball, India scored 244 runs in the first innings while the Australian team was reduced to 191 runs. Captain Tim Paine scored the most unbeaten 73 runs for Australia. India have gained a significant edge in this match, while at one time it seemed that the Australian team was dominating the match but the Indian bowlers made a great comeback after being reduced to 244 for six in the first innings by playing 233 runs. And kept the kangaroos on the backfoot constantly.

    For Australia, Penn struggled unilaterally, trying to handle the Kangaroos’ innings and scored 73 not out with the help of 10 fours in 99 balls. Apart from Penn, Marnus Labuschen scored 47 runs in 119 balls with the help of seven fours. Apart from these two batsmen, no other Australian batsman could do Karisma. In Australia’s innings, Mitchell Starc scored 15, Cameron Green scored 11, Nathan Lyon scored 10 and former captain Steven Smith scored one run. For India, Ashwin took four wickets for 55 runs in 18 overs, Umesh took three wickets for 40 runs in 16.1 overs and Bumrah took two wickets for 52 runs in 21 overs while Mohammad Shami remained empty handed for 41 runs in 17 overs.

  • Australian batsmen take knee in front of Ashwin’s bowling bowling, first innings limited to 191 runs

    In front of the bowling of Ravichandran Ashwin, the Australian batsmen were seen collapsing like cards in the first innings. The entire Australian team was reduced to 191 runs in the first innings. Ashwin took the highest four wickets from India. Australia’s highest score was 73 runs scored by Australia. He is not out. Australia’s team has reached 53 runs from India’s first innings. Earlier, after winning the toss, Team India came out to bat first and piled on 244 runs in the first innings. For India, captain Virat Kohli scored 74 and Cheteshwar Pujara scored 43 runs.

    In the Adelaide Test, Ashwin is proving to be a big threat for Australian batsmen. Ashwin returned 4 pavilions to 4 kangaroo batsmen in the first innings so far. Ashwin first sent Steve Smith (1), then Travis Head (7), followed by debutant Cameron Green (11). After this, Ashwin also dismissed Nathan Lyon (10).

  • Chaos at the top of the order for both India and Australia

    Both India and Australia are yet to settle on their opening combination heading into the pink-ball Test. Both teams have had injuries to frontline openers and doubts remain over the current form of available contenders. So how will the teams go about it in Adelaide come Thursday?
    The pink ball in itself poses numerous challenges, especially during the twilight hours. Teams, therefore, must pick a pair of technically sound and temperamentally tough openers to deal with the challenging ebb and flow of a pink-ball innings. Also, captains will often plan to put the opposition in when the lights have come on and dusk is hovering.

    Vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane, while playing his cards very close to his chest regarding India’s choice of openers, shed some light on the characteristics of the pink ball and suggested that batsmen who can “focus” and “concentrate” during the tough “40-50 minute (twilight) period” will be preferred.

  • Revisiting India pace troika’s magic during 2018/19 summer Down Under

    “Beautiful, fantastic… in the last 15 months no other team has done so well in pace bowling. The Indian team has done so well, I don’t have to say anything, they have done so well… it is unbelievable”

    Legendary all-rounder Kapil Dev had perfectly summed up the contribution of Jasprit Bumrah, Ishant Sharma and Mohammed Shami in India’s historic Test series in Australia.

    The Indian pace trio of Jasprit Bumrah, Ishant Sharma and Mohammed Shami had destroyed the Australian batting line-up with a lot of fast, swinging and accurate bowling during the 2018/19 Border-Gavaskar series. Bumrah, Shami and Sharma had combined to pick up 48 wickets at an average of 21.6 to play a major role in India’s historic triumph Down Under in 2018-19.

    Indian pacers ran rings around the Australian batsmen and capped off a memorable Test series against the Tim Paine-led side. They never really allowed the Australian batsmen to settle down throughout the four-Test series and powered India to a one of a kind 2-1 win.

    Jasprit Bumrah was India’s wrecker-in-chief as the Indian pacer bagged 21 wickets at an average of 17.00, which also included a five-wicket haul. Nathan Lyon matched the tally but was not able to have the same impact as Bumrah had for India in that series.

    Shami and Ishant backed up Bumrah with 16 and 11 wickets respectively as the Indian pacers hunted in packs throughout the course of the four Tests. Ravindra Jadeja (7), R Ashwin (6), Kuldeep Yadav (5) and Umesh Yadav (2) all played crucial supporting roles.

  • Hanuma and Pant hit an unbeaten century, Gill also claimed

    India, on their second day of the night practice match against Australia A with a pink ball against Australia A with brilliant centuries from Hanuma Vihari (104 not out) and wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant (103 not out) and half-centuries from Mayank Agarwal (61) and Shubman Gill (65). In the second innings, batting practice made a strong score of 386 runs for four wickets. India now has a total lead of 472 runs.

    India scored 194 runs in their first innings on the first day of this warm-up match before the Test on the first day to be held in Adelaide from 17 December, in which fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah scored an unbeaten 55 and the first half of his career in any format . Australia A team was reduced to 108 runs. But in the second day’s game, the sting was missing in the pitch which appeared on the first day, due to which 20 wickets fell in one day.

    In the second day’s play, Indian batsmen made a great practice of batting. Barring opener Prithvi Shaw, all the other top-order batsmen left behind scoring runs and failure of the first innings. Hanuma, batting brilliantly, hit 13 fours in an unbeaten 104 off 194 balls, while Pant scored 4,4,6,4,4 from five consecutive balls in the last over of the day to complete his century in just 73 balls. Pant has hit nine fours and six sixes in an unbeaten 103 off 73 balls and has firmly asserted his claim to the place of wicketkeeper.