Australia skipper Pat Cummins discovered himself on the ground as a consequence of his pleasure of interesting for an LBW on India’s Ravindra Jadeja on Day 2 of the fifth and closing Border Gavaskar Trophy Take a look at.
It occurred within the final ball of the twenty seventh over with Jadeja batting at 2 and he obtained rapped on the pads by Cummins’ supply. The Australian went for a giant attraction and tumbled over on his followthrough however nonetheless continued the attraction from on the bottom. Sadly although, the onfield umpire didn’t rule in his favour as Jadeja survived.
India ended the day with 141/6, main by 145 runs with Washington Sundar and Jadeja within the center with Cummins taking 1 wicket to this point on this innings, that of a rampaging Rishabh Pant.
Pat Cummins appealed himself off his toes 😂 #AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/JhSPS2iWsH
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Earlier, Pant had conjured up a spectacular 33-ball-61 to one way or the other preserve India afloat at the same time as Australia remained in driver’s seat within the fifth Take a look at.
Pant’s knock prevented Indian second innings from falling aside with the guests prime and decrease order struggling to barter Aussie assault on a monitor that was aided seam and bounce.
This was after unheralded bowling duo of Prasidh Krishna (3/42) and Nitish Reddy (2/32) complemented Mohammed Siraj (3/51) and Jasprit Bumrah (2/33) to shoot Australia out for 181.
On a troublesome monitor, Virat Kohli (6) and his top-order colleagues discovered Scott Boland (3/38) too sizzling to deal with. Kohli misplaced his wicket on exterior the off stump line for the eighth successive time on this collection.
The match is for certain to finish on the third day but when India will be capable of defend the full will very a lot rely on whether or not skipper Jasprit Bumrah is match to bowl full tilt.
Bumrah underwent precautionary scans for an unspecified damage after he left the sector within the post-lunch session by which he bowled only one over.
(With company inputs)
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