🏏India vs Australia - 1st Test: VCAS, Nagpur: 09 - 13 Feb 2023 🏏 - Page 38

But bcz of that last wkt, the session has been extended by half an hour

Originally posted by: Tapdance

It's over Bee

Shh don't spoil it 😆 hum 8 min piche chal rahe 🤣

Now Australia can't say toota hai Nagpur kaa ghamand 🤓

And Shami takes Boland, all out!! 🥳

They take a review but wickets turn out to be umpires call which seals our victory by an innings and 132 runs

CONGRATULATIONS INDIA!!! 🥳

Channels should sue Australia for finishing the match in 3 days😡Kitna ad revenue loss ho gaya

Australia have been absolutely hammered here in Nagpur.

Bowled out in just over a session with India's spinners making the pitch look menacing.

You thought Axar Patel was being cheeky yesterday when he said the pitch will play well when India are batting, but there will be help when it was their turn to bowl.

ut just look at what has happened. Ashwin and Jadeja were near unplayable out there, more so against a clueless batting order, bowling them out for just 91.

To be fair, it did look difficult the moment Ashwin took the new ball, finding a good amount of turn and racing to a five-for in just his 10th over.

He beat Jadeja to the milestone this time, not that the latter looked any less threatening. The two of them were so deadly that Axar Patel only managed a solitary wicket in the entire Test.

Originally posted by: Bee222

Shh don't spoil it 😆 hum 8 min piche chal rahe 🤣

Laga hi...match got over and you were still at the no ball all out🤭🤭

Anyway...Guess you've caught up🥳

Ash + Jaddu attacking back to back today was fun bowling to watch!!

Originally posted by: LuvAlways

Channels should sue Australia for finishing the match in 3 days😡Kitna ad revenue loss ho gaya

They'll recover when Pat Cummins hits 80 in 30 balls in IPL😆

IPL Wali gaali sabko padegi😆

Match Summary: India beat Australia by an innings and 132 runs to take a 1-0 series lead.

Australia 177 and 91; India 400

Steven Smith 25* (51) | Ravichandran Ashwin 5/37 (12)

So much talk in the lead-up to this Test over the pitch, India's batting concerns and how this could possibly be Australia's best chance to win a Test series in India. After eight sessions, what we've managed to learn is that beating India in India remains the most difficult proposition in the world as far as Test cricket goes. The pitch kept low, but it wasn't treacherous by any stretch. And absolutely nothing can justify Australia's insipid display in the second innings.

The toss was the only thing that went the visitors' way - Mohammed Shami and Mohammed Siraj then got the ball to talk as they reduced Australia to 2-2 on the first morning. While Marnus Labuschagne and Steven Smith applied themselves brilliantly thereafter, showing immense maturity in playing the ball on the front foot. Once Ravindra Jadeja got into the act and had Labuschagne stumped, it all went downhill for the visitors. Jadeja capped his comeback with a five-wicket haul and even as Alex Carey put in a nice, spunky counter-attack, it all came apart for the visitors who could only muster 177.

Rohit Sharma then led the way with the bat, making batting look far easier than it was. Todd Murphy capped off a memorable debut, looking head and shoulders above the rest of his colleagues and outbowling senior statesman Nathan Lyon as well. Even as Murphy chipped away at the wickets, Jadeja and Axar Patel dropped anchor and built the lead to a sizeable one, with Mohammed Shami also adding useful runs this morning. Eventually, India were bowled out for a round 400, leaving the Aussies with a mountain and then some to climb.

But gosh, nobody could have possibly envisioned the Domino Effect that was to unfold. One after another, they came and went as though they were in a hurry to catch the next flight out. Ravichandran Ashwin let the ball off a string, keeping it very simple and attacking the stumps without trying too much. He just let the ball then take a bit of turn off the surface and that was enough to blow the Australian batting unit out of the water.

There were a couple of surprising ball tracking calls when Matt Renshaw was trapped deep in his crease. It struck him quite high but ball tracking returned three reds, as it did for Peter Handscomb when he played forward. Either way, the Australians simply lacked application with the bat this Test, save for Smith, Labuschagne and Carey. Smith paid witness to the procession from the other end as it all came apart in a matter of a couple of hours, even as he wasn't afraid in lofting the spinners over the infield now and then. Australia simply need to put a lot of things right in order to compete further this series - losing 10 wickets in a single session is as confidence-denting as it can get and they leave Nagpur with way more questions than answers. Stick around for the presentations...

Originally posted by: Tapdance

Laga hi...match got over and you were still at the no ball all out🤭🤭

Anyway...Guess you've caught up🥳

Ash + Jaddu attacking back to back today was fun bowling to watch!!

Yes I did catch up 🤣 thank you for waiting 🤭

Ash Jaddu bowling together is always a treat I honestly feel much more reassured when they're both in the team ❤️❤️

Nazar na lage dono ko 😌 kaala teekas ☯️☯️