India vs Australia: Till now nothing was going well for Australia in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy being played between India and Australia. After a one-sided defeat in the Nagpur Test, she was all out for just 263 runs on the first day of the second Test being played in Delhi. However, on the second day of this test, Australia definitely made a comeback and strengthened its hold.
By the end of the second day’s play, the Australian players had scored 61 runs losing just one wicket after bundling the Indian team out for 262 runs. For the first time in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023, there were tears of victory for Australia. But this tear was drowned in the first session of the third day’s play.
Ashwin started first
On the third day of the match, Australia had added only 4 runs to their yesterday’s score that R Ashwin sent Travis Head (43) to the pavilion. Here Ashwin’s ball taking a turn got caught in the hands of wicketkeeper KS Bharat, taking the edge of Trevid Head’s bat. From here, Marnus Labushen led the innings with Steve Smith, but only this legendary pair could only make a partnership of 20 runs. Smith tried to hit a sweep shot on a ball from R Ashwin and he missed it. Here the ball hit straight on the pad and there was a strong appeal for LBW. The umpire gave Smith out. Smith took the review but it turned out to be inconclusive.
Four wickets fell back to back without adding any runs to the score.
After Smith’s dismissal, Marnus Labushen had taken the score to 95 runs with Matt Ranshaw when Ravindra Jadeja bowled him. After the fall of the wicket of Labushen (35), as if Australia’s backbone was broken and three more wickets fell on the total of 95. Matt Ranshaw (2), Peter Handscomb (0) and captain Pat Cummins (0) could not stay on the pitch for a while. Ashwin did LBW to Ranshaw. Here Ranshaw took a review but it turned out to be inconclusive. Peter Handscomb was caught by Jadeja in the slip by Kohli and captain Pat Cummins was bowled straight. Australia had now lost 7 wickets for 95 runs.
Jadeja made three bold in the last
Alex Carey and Nathan Lyon shared a 15-run partnership to take Australia past 100. And then Jadeja bowled Alex Carey (7), Nathan Lyon (8) and Matthew Kuhneman (0) to bundle out Australia for 113. In this way, the Australian team lost its 9 wickets within just 48 runs on the third day of the Delhi Test. In Australia’s second innings, Jadeja took 7 wickets and Ashwin took 3 wickets. Here India could get a target of just 115 runs to win.
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