The first day of the third Test of the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy between India and Australia was named after the Kangaroos. The visitors took a 47-run first-innings lead at the stumps at the Holkar Stadium in Indore. Australia's score is 156/4 after stumps.
Team Cameron Green and Peter Handscomb are unbeaten, opener Usman Khawaja (60 runs) scored his 21st career half-century, while Steve Smith was dismissed for 26 runs.
Ravindra Jadeja took four wickets from India. He has 500 wickets in international cricket. He became the 7th Indian bowler to take 500+ wickets.
First: Spinners dominated; Pujara, Jadeja, and Iyer returned cheaply
The first session of the first day was named after the Australian spinners. The Indore pitch has been kind to the spinners since the beginning of the game. In such a situation, Team India lost seven wickets in scoring 84 runs in two hours of play. Only Virat Kohli (22 runs) and Shubman Gill (21 runs) could last for some time. The rest of the batsmen came and went. Cheteshwar Pujara was out on one, Ravindra Jadeja on 4, and Shreyas Iyer on zero.
Second: Kangaroo dominance
The second session was also in the name of kangaroos. In this, the guest bowlers took three wickets from India and made them all out for 109. After that, losing one wicket, he scored 71 runs and maintained his dominance.
Third: Jadeja got India back
This session was mixed. Where the Australian team scored 85 runs in this. At the same time, Indian bowler Ravindra Jadeja took 3 more wickets. Usman Khawaja scored his career's 21st half-century in this session.
Australian wickets fell like this
First: Ravindra Jadeja made Travis Head LBW.
Second: Ravindra Jadeja bowled Labushen.
Third: Ravindra Jadeja got Usman Khawaja caught by Gill at deep midwicket boundary.
Fourth: Ravindra Jadeja got Steve Smith caught by KS Bharat.
Khawaja-Labushen gave a strong start
After losing the first wicket for 12 runs, Usman Khawaja and Marnus Labuschagne got Australia off to a strong start. There was a partnership of 96 runs on 198 balls between the two.
Team India was reduced to 109 runs, and Kuhneman took 5 wickets
After winning the toss and electing to bat first, Team India got all out for 109 runs in the first innings. Virat Kohli scored the maximum 22 runs from the team. While opener Shubman Gill, playing in place of KL Rahul, scored 21 runs. Wicketkeeper KS Bharat and Umesh Yadav scored 17-17 runs. At the same time, captain Rohit Sharma and Akshar Patel could only add 12-12 runs. The rest of the batsmen could not do anything special.
Matthew Kahneman took 5 wickets for Australia. While Nathan Lyon got 3 successes. One wicket came in the part of Todd Murphy.
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