Australia’s hopes of regaining the Border-Gavaskar trophy are hanging by a thread after they crumbled to an embarrassing innings and 132-run defeat to India within the first Take a look at in Nagpur.
Trailing by 223 runs initially of their second innings, Australia collapsed to be all-out for 91 – their second lowest Take a look at whole towards India – in simply 33 overs on the third day at VCA Stadium.
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After captain Pat Cummins received the toss and elected to bat first, Australia have been skittled for 177 on day one, whereas India racked up 400 throughout their solely innings.
Australia’s batters appeared clueless towards Ravichandran Ashwin on a turning pitch because the prolific India spinner starred with figures of 5-37, giving him eight wickets for the match.
The vacationers narrowly averted their lowest Take a look at innings rating towards India – 83 on the MCG in 1981.
A tour that started with a lot promise, as Australia appeared to win a Take a look at collection in India for the primary time since 2004, is in disarray.
India will take a 1-Zero lead into the subsequent match at Delhi’s Arun Jaitley Stadium, a venue the place they haven’t misplaced a Take a look at since 1987.
Australia’s first match in India in six years began in chaotic trend and ended the identical means.
Selectors gambled by dropping Travis Head, the world’s No.four ranked batter, based mostly on his poor file in Asia after fruitless excursions of Pakistan and Sri Lanka final 12 months.
Head’s substitute at No.5, Matt Renshaw, made scores of zero and two and spent a lot of the second day without work the bottom with knee soreness.
Australia badly missed the companies of allrounder Cameron Inexperienced, who is not any certainty to play in Delhi as he continues his restoration from a damaged finger.
Quick bowlers Mitchell Starc (finger) and Josh Hazlewood (achilles) can even be pushing to be chosen for the second Take a look at.
The one brilliant spot for Australia was the gorgeous debut of offspinner Todd Murphy.
The 22-year-old completed with figures of 7-124 to turn into the sixth Australian to take seven or extra wickets in his debut Take a look at, with the newest earlier than him being spinner Jason Krezja in 2008.
However India had way more matchwinners to grind the Aussies down.
Star allrounder Ravi Jadeja, enjoying his first Take a look at since July after present process knee surgical procedure, set the tone for India on day one with figures of 5-47.
India captain and hometown hero Rohit Sharma then peeled off a flawless century, his ninth in Exams, to shortly push the hosts previous Australia’s mediocre whole.
Murphy took common wickets, however Jadeja punished Australia once more by smashing 70 and was joined by fellow spinner Axar Patel (84no) in forming a vital lower-order stand.
India’s innings ended simply earlier than lunch, however Australia’s batters couldn’t final till the tea break.
