Rishabh Pant. | (Credits: BCCI X)
With a 145-run lead but only four more wickets left in the shed, Team India face a tricky task of setting a defendable total on day three of the fifth and final Test in Sydney. As the pulsating five-Test series reaches its potentially final day, whether Jasprit Bumrah will bowl or not also remains up for discussion. Rishabh Pant’s innings of 61 was decisive in pushing India’s total well above 130 in no time.
For Australia, they must restrict the tourists to as minimum a total as possible, although India might have a total to win already on a tricky surface. However, the hosts need to believe as the Border-Gavaskar Trophy and a World Test Championship (WTC) final is on the line.
