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In the second unofficial Test being played in Melbourne, India A’s first innings was reduced to 161 runs. 7 batsmen of the team could not even touch double figures. Dhruv Jurel scored the highest score of 80 runs. Devdutt Padikkal contributed 26 runs. Nitish Reddy also added 16 runs. For Australia, Michael Neser took 4 wickets and Beau Webster took 3 wickets.
Indian batsman KL Rahul failed at the opening position. He was dismissed by Scott Boland for 4 runs. After flopping in the first match against New Zealand, KL Rahul was sent to Australia to play for India A. The Indian team is trailing 0-1 in the 2-match series.
In the first innings, Australia has scored 53 runs after losing 2 wickets till the stumps. Mukesh Kumar and Khalil Ahmed got 1-1 wicket.
Wicketkeeper batsman Dhruv Jurel played an inning of 80 runs.
Top-4 Indian batsmen could score only 8 runs, account of 2 could not be opened India A, batting after losing the toss, had a bad start. The team had lost 5 wickets on the score of 64 runs. The team lost 2 wickets on the score of zero. Openers Abhinyu Easwaran and Sai Sudarshan were out for zero.
Here Michael Nisar took wickets on the third and fourth balls of the first over. He got Abhimanyu Easwaran caught by Rochiody. Then on the very next ball, Sai Sudarshan was caught by wicketkeeper Pearson.
KL Rahul and captain Ruturaj Gaikwad also could not perform well. Both scored only 4 runs each. KL Rahul was sent to the pavilion by Boland and Gaikwad was sent to the pavilion by Nasir.
Neser got 2 wickets in the first over. Australia A fast bowler Michael Neser took 2 wickets in two consecutive balls in the first over. He showed the way to the pavilion to Abhimanyu Easwaran, Sai Sudarshan and Ruturaj Gaikwad.
Michael Nasir sent 4 Indian batsmen to the pavilion.
Australia A won the match by 7 wickets Australia A won this match by 7 wickets. Captain Nathan McSweeney played an unbeaten inning of 88 runs and achieved the target of 225 runs after losing 3 wickets. Earlier, India A had scored 312 runs in the second innings. Sai Sudarshan played a century inning of 103 runs, while Devdutt Padikkal scored 88 runs.
Australia A has taken a 1-0 lead in the series by winning the first match.
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