India vs Australia: In the Test match being played in Delhi between India and Australia, the host team has strengthened its hold. The Indian team bundled out Australia’s second innings for just 113 runs. Here the Australian batsmen could not face Indian spin duo R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja. Both these bowlers sent the entire Australian team to the pavilion. In this way, the Indian team has now got the target of only 115 runs to win.
Australia started with their score of 61/1 on the third day of the Delhi Test. Travis Head (39) and Marnus Labushen (16) were at the crease. Here the Australian team could only add 4 runs to their score that Ashwin made Trevid Head (43) walk. After this, Steve Smith and Labushen shared a 20-run partnership, then Smith (9) also became the victim of Ashwin.
4 wickets fell back to back on a total of 95
After losing the wickets of Trevid Head and Smith, Labushen and Matt Ranshaw had just taken the score to 95 runs when Labushen (35) was bowled by Jadeja. After this, back to back 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 sent Ranshaw to the pavilion and Jadeja sent Peter and Cummins to the pavilion. The condition was that 7 players of Australia were out for 95 runs.
Jadeja took 7 and Ashwin took three wickets
Alex Carey and Nathan Lyon shared a 15-run partnership to take the Australian team to 100 after losing 7 wickets for 95 runs. Here Alex Carey (7) was bowled by Jadeja. After this, Nathan Lyon (8) and Matthew Kuhneman (0) also became victims of Jadeja. In this way, the entire team of Australia got reduced to 113 runs only. In Australia’s second innings, Ravindra Jadeja took 7 wickets for 42 runs, while Ashwin took 3 wickets for 59 runs.
Australia got one run lead on the basis of first innings
Batting first in the Delhi Test, Australia scored 263 runs in the first innings. In response, the first innings of the Indian team was reduced to 262 runs. In this way, on the basis of the first innings, the Kangaroo team got a lead of one run. Now after settling Australia’s second innings cheaply, the Indian team has to chase just 115 runs to win the Delhi Test. By winning the Delhi Test, the Indian team will take a 2-0 lead in this four-match Test series.
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