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Falling Australia wickets
Batting first in the first innings in the first Test against India, Australia were bowled out for 177 runs. Ravindra Jadeja, who saw the international arena after 7 months, showed a great performance and took 5 wickets.
The Australian cricket team visiting India is playing 4 Tests and 3 ODIs. The first match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test series has started in Nagpur, Maharashtra.
Suryakumar Yadav, who has been a sensation in the last two years in T20 and ODIs, made his international Test debut through this match. In place of Rishabh Pandu, who was injured in a road accident, wicketkeeper KS Bharath made his debut.
All-rounder Ravindra Jadeja returned to the team after 6 months after recovering from an ankle injury. Indian team has fielded with 3 spin bowlers. Subman Gill and Kuldeep Yadav were not given a place in the squad.
22-year-old off-spinner Todd Murphy made his 465th international Test debut for Australia. Another spinner, Nathan Lyon, has been included in the team along with him. This is the first time in 35 years that the Australian team has fielded two spinners in Test cricket.
Australia captain Pat Cummins won the toss and elected to bat. Openers David Warner and Usman Khawaja returned to the pavilion as quickly as they arrived.
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Khawaja was bowled by Mohammed Siraj with only one run scored. Action player David Warner was bowled by Mohammed Shami.
Having lost two wickets at the start of the game, Smith and Labuschagne brought the Australian team out of the slump. Australia were 76 for 2 in 32 overs at the time of the lunch break. Labuschenne scored 47 runs and Smith scored 19 runs.
But after the lunch break, the game swung back to India. All-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, who played in the international tournament after 6 months, made a mark with his bowling. Jadeja dismissed Labuchen, who was steady, and Matt Renshaw, who came next, in subsequent balls. He dismissed Labuchen, who was expected to score a half-century, for 49 and Renshaw not out.
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In no time, Australia’s batting line-up was derailed as Jadeja dismissed Steven Smith for 37 runs. The Australian team is stumbling, losing 5 wickets before reaching 150 runs. Wicketkeeper duo Alex Carey and Peter Henscombe battled the slump and struggled to lift the Australian team. Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin bowled cleanly for 36 runs off Alex Carey, who tried to increase the team’s score quickly by playing aggressively. At that time the score of the Australian team was 162 runs for the loss of 6 wickets.
After this Australia captain Cummins was dismissed by Ashwin. Cummins scored just 6 runs. Next up was debutant Todd Murphy for no runs and Jadeja was bowled lbw.
After that, Australia stumbled by taking 174 runs for the loss of 8 wickets.
Before adding 3 more runs, Australia lost the remaining two wickets and were all out for 177 runs. On behalf of the Indian team, Ravindra Jadeja took 5 wickets, Ashwin 3, Mohammed Shami 1, Mohammed Siraj 1. India’s hand in the first Test is up as they bowled out the Australian team for less than 200 runs in the first innings.
Ravichandran Ashwin became the third player to take 450 wickets and 3,000 runs in international Test cricket after taking the wicket of Alex Carey. Australian legend Shane Warne and England’s Stuart Broad have already crossed this milestone.
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