IND vs AUS 4th Test Updates Day 5: The fourth Test between India and Australia under the Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) 2024-25 was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). Today (30 December) is the fifth and last day of this match. The Australian team had given India a target of 340 runs to win. Team India was all out for 155 runs in the second innings. With this, Australia has taken a 2-1 lead in the 5 test match series. Now only one test is left in the series. With this, it has become almost impossible for Team India to reach the final of the Test World Championship.
Team India’s defeat
While chasing the target, Team India was in trouble after losing 3 wickets one after the other. However, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rishabh Pant stopped Team India’s ruckus. Team India got its fourth blow in the form of Pant. Mitchell Marsh’s catch was caught by Rishabh Pant near the head. He was out after scoring 30 runs. After this Ravindra Jadeja came on the field and was caught out on the ball of Boland on 2 runs. After this, first innings star Nitish Reddy came on the field and was out after scoring 1 run on Lyon’s ball. After this, Jaiswal, who was the last hope of Team India, also missed out on a century by getting out on 84 runs.
After this, Akash Deep also got out head caught while bowling Boland. This caused the eighth blow to Team India. Then back to back Bumrah got Smith caught in the slip off Boland’s ball. This caused the ninth blow to Team India. After this, Siraj also became the victim of Lyon, Team India was all out for 155 runs.
Highlights of the test so far…
Australia’s second innings ended at 234 runs. Jasprit Bumrah took 5 wickets in the second innings for Team India. Earlier, Team India scored 369 runs in its first innings. Nitish Kumar Reddy contributed 114 runs for India. In the first innings of this match, the Australian team collapsed for 474 runs. That means, on the basis of the first innings, Australia got a lead of 105 runs.
How was the second innings of Team India?
Team India had a very bad start while chasing the target. Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal did not try to hit big shots on the new ball. The result was that India scored only 25 runs in 16 overs. It seemed like Rohit lost his patience when he was trying to play a big innings. Rohit (9) was caught out by Mitchell Marsh at the hands of Pat Cummins.
Kohli’s flop show once again
Four balls later, Cummins also got KL Rahul caught out by Usman Khawaja at first slip. Rahul could not even open an account. Then Virat Kohli also got caught out by Khawaja on the ball of Mitchell Starc after scoring 5 runs. Even in this innings, Kohli’s old weakness could not leave him and he was out on a ball that went outside the off stump.
