IND vs AUS: First day of Pink Ball Test in Australia's favour- India all out for 180, Australia 86/1
IND vs AUS - First day of Pink Ball Test in Australia's favour- India all out for 180, Australia 86/1
IND vs AUS: Australia has reached a strong position on the first day of the day-night test in Adelaide. On Friday, India won the toss and chose to bat, but the team could only score 180 runs. By the end of the day's play, Australia scored 86 runs after losing one wicket, the team is behind by 94 runs.Nathan McSweeney returned unbeaten after scoring 38 and Marnus Labuschagne 20 runs from Australia. Jasprit Bumrah took the only wicket from India, he caught out Usman Khawaja (13 runs). The second day's play will start at 9:30 am on Saturday.India lost the wicket of Yashasvi Jaiswal on the very first ball of the match. Shubman Gill scored 31 and KL Rahul scored 37 runs and handled the innings. The team fell apart as soon as both were out, Virat Kohli could score only 7 and Rohit Sharma 3 runs. Ravi Ashwin scored 22 and Rishabh Pant scored 21 runs. Australia's Pat Cummins and Scott Boland got 2-2 wickets.Indian team got all out at 180 runsAfter winning the toss and batting first, Team India's first innings got all out at 180 runs. Nitish Reddy scored the highest 42 runs, while KL Rahul scored 37 runs. Mitchell Starc took the highest six wickets for Australia. This was the 15th five-wicket haul of his Test career.Indian inningsTeam India had a bad start. Yashasvi was out LBW on the very first ball of the match. He could not open the account. After this, there was a partnership of 69 runs for the second wicket between KL Rahul and Shubman Gill. This partnership was broken by Starc. He sent Rahul to the pavilion. Rahul could score only 37 runs. As soon as he was out, there was a flurry of wickets. Virat Kohli was out after scoring seven runs, Shubman Gill 31 runs and captain Rohit Sharma was out after scoring three runs. While India's score was 69 runs for one wicket at one time, it had become 87 runs for five wickets after some time. That is, India lost four more wickets in making 18 runs.After this, Rishabh Pant tried to stay, but Cummins sent him to the pavilion as well. Pant scored 21 runs. Ashwin tried to handle the innings with Nitish Reddy and made a partnership of 32 runs for the seventh wicket. Starc once again disturbed and sent Ashwin back. He could score only 22 runs. Harshit Rana and Jasprit Bumrah were out without opening the account. Nitish became Starc's sixth victim by scoring 42 runs in 54 balls with the help of three fours and three sixes as the last wicket. Apart from Starc, Pat Cummins and Boland got two wickets each.