Bumrah to Khawaja, Australia v India 2019
Australia are running out of gas at the end of a hard-contested four-test series, which let Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja take India to 622-7 declared after Cheteshwar Pujara's fine first innings 193. Dismissed for 300, Australia's batting and bowling are both under fire. After Australia scored 300 in the first innings, India enforced the follow-on. Australia in a home test are following on for the first time in 31 years, and at the Sydney Cricket Ground at the close of the fourth test's fourth day were no wicket for 6 in the second innings. It will take a major effort (or bad light or rain) to save a draw and avoid a 3-1 defeat, but either way India will win a cricket test series in Australia for the first time tomorrow. India has been touring here since 1948...
Going into the last day, Marnus Labuschagne has the best series average for an Australian batsman of 38 but from only one innings (Marcus Harris has had a respectable series with 258 runs at 37 so far). Four Indian batsman can better that. Pujara has a series-winning tally of 521 runs at an average of 74 (including three centuries). On the bowling side, Jasprit Bumrah has 21 wickets at an average of 17. Australia's top bowler, Pat Cummins, has 14 wickets at 28, and five Indian bowlers can top that. Bumrah has 49 wickets in his first ten tests, including a memorable slow ball yorker to dismiss Shaun Marsh in Melbourne.
While the stats have been skewed in this test match which is yet to complete, India have outlasted Australia on our home turf and are on the verge of a tremendous achievement.
Players in the photo from left: Marcus Harris, Jasprit Bumrah, Usman Khawaja, Rishabh Pant, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli. Just 25 overs bowled in the day, a bit disappointing for the 18,000 crowd as the drizzle after 11am was very light.
Postscript: Bad light and rain stopped play on the fifth day, and the drawn match resulted in an India win 2-1 in for the test series - India's first series win in Australia, helped by the absence of Smith and Warner following their sandpaper shenanigans.
Bumrah to Khawaja, Australia v India 2019
Australia are running out of gas at the end of a hard-contested four-test series, which let Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja take India to 622-7 declared after Cheteshwar Pujara's fine first innings 193. Dismissed for 300, Australia's batting and bowling are both under fire. After Australia scored 300 in the first innings, India enforced the follow-on. Australia in a home test are following on for the first time in 31 years, and at the Sydney Cricket Ground at the close of the fourth test's fourth day were no wicket for 6 in the second innings. It will take a major effort (or bad light or rain) to save a draw and avoid a 3-1 defeat, but either way India will win a cricket test series in Australia for the first time tomorrow. India has been touring here since 1948...
Going into the last day, Marnus Labuschagne has the best series average for an Australian batsman of 38 but from only one innings (Marcus Harris has had a respectable series with 258 runs at 37 so far). Four Indian batsman can better that. Pujara has a series-winning tally of 521 runs at an average of 74 (including three centuries). On the bowling side, Jasprit Bumrah has 21 wickets at an average of 17. Australia's top bowler, Pat Cummins, has 14 wickets at 28, and five Indian bowlers can top that. Bumrah has 49 wickets in his first ten tests, including a memorable slow ball yorker to dismiss Shaun Marsh in Melbourne.
While the stats have been skewed in this test match which is yet to complete, India have outlasted Australia on our home turf and are on the verge of a tremendous achievement.
Players in the photo from left: Marcus Harris, Jasprit Bumrah, Usman Khawaja, Rishabh Pant, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli. Just 25 overs bowled in the day, a bit disappointing for the 18,000 crowd as the drizzle after 11am was very light.
Postscript: Bad light and rain stopped play on the fifth day, and the drawn match resulted in an India win 2-1 in for the test series - India's first series win in Australia, helped by the absence of Smith and Warner following their sandpaper shenanigans.