Inspite of Wonderful debute of Natarajan, Marnus’s hundred keep India on pressure

Report card of AUS VS IND 4^TH TEST , DAY 1

   After an wonderful draw in pink test it is a huge challenge for India to defend this series in 1-1 or win. But It will definitely very difficult for a team which lost its most important and dependable players deu to injury. This problem rose eye even from very first day.

   Same way hosts won the toss and chose to bat first. Wonderful spell of Siraj continued even today and he send David Warner very early on just 5 . Shardul Thakur also dismissed Marcus Harris very early. After this early losses Smith and Labuschagne made a good comeback and ended on 65/2 before lunch. Newcomer spinner Washington Sundar send Smith on 36 just after the lunch. But after this lose Matthew Wade and Marnus Labuschagne made an wonderful partnership. Ajinkya Rahane dropped a catch of Labuschagne and India had to pay for it. Shardul Thakur though took important wicket of Smith he was bit expensive throughout the whole day. Wade scored valuable 45 and Labuschagne made wonderful ton of 108. Marnus and Wade added 113 for 4^th wicket. But the debutant talent T Natarajan bowled wonderfully and send this two set batsman quickly.

    After 213/5 skipper Paine and Chris Green made a nice comeback and ended the day with 274/5. If this two batsman set for a long time Australia will easily make 350 or 400 runs which is enough the put India in outmost pressure but the pace battery that we had it will not so much easy. The injury of Navdeep Saini is really a headache and it is tough to use only 4 bowlers in this do or die test. Above all things the pace bowling of Siraj Natarajan is very much promising and we can definitely say it as a positive sign for our team which is very much effected injury.

   Above all the batting unit of India have to work properly to make 100 runs lead which is very important.

Summary after Day 1

AUSTRALIA 274/5 (87)

MARNUS LABUSCHAGNE 108.        T NATARAJAN 2/63

MATHEW WADE 45.                          MD . SIRAJ 1/51

 

Report by Aditya Shankar Chattopadhyay on behalf of Kheloverse