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Australian team celebrating the wicket of Yashasvi Jaiswal.
The fourth match of this Border-Gavaskar Trophy between India and Australia is being played in Melbourne. The threat of follow-on is looming over the Indian team. The team lost 5 wickets in scoring 164 runs at stumps on Friday. Rishabh Pant returned unbeaten on 6 runs and Ravindra Jadeja on 4 runs.
India has to score 111 more runs to save the follow-on. The follow-on mark of this match is 275 runs, because Australia has scored 474 runs in the first innings. The third day’s play will begin at 5 am today at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 82 runs
On the second day of the ongoing match in Melbourne, India lost 3 wickets in the last 6 overs. The team lost the wicket of night watchman Akash Deep on the last ball of the 41st over. They could not open an account. Earlier, Virat Kohli (36 runs) and Yashasvi Jaiswal were run out after scoring 82 runs. Rohit Sharma (3 runs) and KL Rahul (24 runs) were sent to the pavilion by Pat Cummins. Scott Boland got 2 wickets.
Smith’s 34th century in Test career
In the Australian innings, Steve Smith scored 140 runs on 197 balls. He scored the 34th century of his Test career. This is his 11th century against India. Young openers Sam Constas (60 runs), Usman Khawaja (57 runs) and Marnus Labuschagne (72 runs) scored half-centuries. Jasprit Bumrah took 4 wickets from India. Ravindra Jadeja took 3 wickets. Akash Deep got 2 wickets and Mohammad Siraj got one wicket.
Fan entered the field, met Virat
Some interesting moments were seen on the second day of the match also. As if not even an hour had passed since the match started, a fan entered the field, placed his hand on Virat Kohli’s shoulder and talked to him. At the same time, Australian batsman Steve Smith got bowled strangely. Read the full news…
Both teams… India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, Ravindra Jadeja, Nitish Reddy, Washington Sundar, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep.
Australia: Pat Cummins (captain), Usman Khawaja, Sam Konstans, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey (wk), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon and Scott Boland.