The fourth match of the Border Gavaskar Trophy between India and Australia is being played in Melbourne. Today is the third day of the match. In this match, the Kangaroo team won the toss and batted first and with the help of Steve Smith’s century, made a huge score of 474 runs in the first innings. Jasprit Bumrah bowled brilliantly for India and took maximum four wickets. Apart from them, Ravindra Jadeja got three wickets and Akash Deep got two wickets. At this time India’s first innings is going on.
game stopped due to rain
In the Melbourne Test, play did not start after the tea break due to rain. At this time the lighting is also less and the pitch is covered.
Reddy-Sundar’s partnership of the century
The pair of Nitish Reddy and Washington Sundar did wonders and completed a century partnership for the eighth wicket.
Highlights of Team India’s innings
Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal came to open for India in the first innings. But in the second over of the day, Rohit Sharma dismissed Kangaroo captain Pat Cummins. Whereas KL Rahul was looking in good form but he too was bowled by Pat Cummins.
After this Kohli and Yashasvi made a partnership of 102 runs.
After this Kohli and Yashasvi made a partnership of 102 runs. But then Yashasvi Jaiswal was out on 82 runs while trying to steal a run. Another run was added to the scoreboard when Scott Boland had Virat Kohli, who was settled on the pitch, caught by Alex Carey behind the wicket. Then nightwatchman Akash Deep (0) was also dismissed by Boland. In this way, the wickets of Yashasvi, Kohli and Akash Deep fell for just 6 runs. At the end of the second day’s play, India’s score was 164 runs for five wickets.
