It turned out to be a batting festival for India on the second day of the three-day pink-ball warmup game against Australia ‘A’ on Saturday, with Rishabh Pant running amok with an unbeaten 103 and Hanuma Vihari too scoring a century.
The Australia ‘A’ pacers seemed to be weary and merely going through the motions at the end of the day at the Sydney Cricket Ground, and Pant gave the team management something to think about as he hammered 22 runs off the last over, bowled by tired-looking right-arm medium pacer Jack Wildermuth, to complete his century.
In all probability, the team management may have already settled on Wriddhiman Saha as the main wicketkeeper for the pink-ball Test in Adelaide starting December 17. Pant, however, made it clear with his strokeplay that he will be up for the challenge if given an opportunity.
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Rishabh Pant, Hanuma Vihari warm up for Test series with tons
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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.
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LIVE IND vs ENG: England start batting, replaces Pandya-Ashwin in Hanuma-Jadeja team
The fifth and final match of the five-match Test series between Team India and England is being played on the ‘The Oval’ ground in London. Batting first, winning the toss, the England team scored 9 runs without losing any wickets in 3 overs. Alastair Cook (4 runs) and Ketan Jennings (4 runs) are on the crease.
England once again won the toss and decided to bat first and handed the bowling to India. There has been two changes in Team India’s playing XI Ravindra Jadeja has got an opportunity to replace all-rounder Hardik Pandya instead of Hanuma Vihari and off spinner Ravichandran Ashwin.
Hanuma Vihari has been debuting in international cricket with this match. Now became the 292th player to play Test matches for India. This is the last match of former England captain Alastair Cook’s career. After that he will retire from cricket. Root has not made any changes to this match in his last XI.
The Indian team, who lost the series against England by losing the fourth Test in Southampton, would like to end the series with a win here. The world number one Test team had to face defeat by South Africa by 60 runs in Southampton. In the second innings of the fourth Test, the Indian batsmen were floppy, leaving the captain Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane.