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Debutant Will Pucovski and Marnus Labuschagne scored fine half-centuries as Australia ended Day 1 of the rain hit third test at 166/2 against India at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Thursday.
India included Rohit Sharma and debutant Navdeep Saini for Mayank Agarwal and the injured Umesh Yadav, while Australia dropped Joe Burns and Travis Head for Pucovski and David Warner.
Continue reading “India vs Australia Third Test Day 1 Sydney Match Report 2021”
Team India have officially announced their playing XI for the third test against Australia at Sydney starting January 7, Thursday.
Navdeep Saini will be making his test debut in place of the injured Umesh Yadav and Rohit Sharma will replace Mayank Agarwal for the Sydney Test starting Thursday.
Agarwal in his last four innings has had scores of 17,9,0 & 5 respectively.
India XI for Sydney Test:
1 Rohit Sharma, 2 Shubman Gill, 3 Cheteshwar Pujara, 4 Ajinkya Rahane (capt), 5 Hanuma Vihari, 6 Rishabh Pant (wk), 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 R Ashwin, 9 Jasprit Bumrah, 10 Navdeep Saini & Mohammed Siraj
Team India produced a brilliant comeback to defeat Australia by 8 wickets and level the series 1-1 at Melbourne on Tuesday. Continue reading “India vs Australia Second Test Melbourne Day 4 Match Report 2020”
Ajinkya Rahane’s brilliant 112 and Ravindra Jadeja’s excellent half century helped India take a firm grip at the end of Day 3 of the second Test against Australia at Melbourne on Monday. Continue reading “India vs Australia Second Test Day 3 Melbourne Match Report- 2020”
Indian skipper Ajinkya Rahane led from the front by scoring an unbeaten 104, to put India in a commanding position on day two of the Boxing Day Test against Australia on Sunday. Continue reading “India vs Australia Second Test Day 2 Melbourne Match Report 2020”
Jasprit Bumrah claimed 4/56 as India took firm control by dismissing Australia for 195 on the opening day of the second Test in front of a 27,615 strong crowd at the MCG on Saturday.
The home side went in with an unchanged XI, while the visitors, as announced yesterday, made 4 changes by including Ravi Jadeja, Rishabh Pant and debutants Shubman Gill and Mohammed Siraj respectively.
