IND vs AUS Indore Test: First day’s play ends, Australia strengthens its hold in the match

The third match of the four-Test Border Gavaskar Trophy between India and Australia started in Indore today. In the third match, Indian captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and decided to bat first. However, this decision of Rohit Sharma did not prove to be correct and Indian batting was seen faltering in front of Australian spin bowling. The entire Indian team got all out on a score of 109 runs. At the same time, Australia has made a strong hold against India in the first innings. By the end of the first day’s play in Indore, Australia have scored 156 runs losing 4 wickets. In such a situation, he has made a lead of 47 runs over India. Australia still have six wickets in hand.

 

If Australia takes a big lead over India, then somewhere there will be an additional pressure on Team India. Team India’s batting was not good in the first innings, which may have to bear the brunt in this match. Even though Australia got the first blow on the score of 12 runs, but there was a big partnership between Usman Khawaja and Marnus Labuschagne and Australia managed to hold a strong hold against India. Usman Khawaja has scored 60 runs. He was dismissed by Ravindra Jadeja. At the same time, Marnus Labuschagne became the victim of Ravindra Jadeja on the score of 31 runs. Captain Steve Smith also became the victim of Ravindra Jadeja. Ravindra Jadeja has taken all the four wickets that fell in Australia’s innings.

 

Like the first two Tests, the pitch was expected to favor the spinners a lot but the Holkar Stadium pitch showed a lot of turn in the first hour and kept the ball low on a few occasions which was a bit surprising. After losing seven wickets in the first session, India lost their remaining three wickets in the second session adding 25 runs. Kuhnemann produced the best performances of his career in first-class cricket. If Umesh Yadav had not played an innings of 17 runs in 13 balls with two sixes and a four, then India would have struggled to cross the 100-run mark. Earlier, the strategy of adopting an aggressive approach on a spin-friendly pitch cost India dearly and three of the hosts’ batsmen Rohit Sharma (12), Ravindra Jadeja (04) and Shreyas Iyer (00) were dismissed trying to adopt an aggressive approach.