Ind vs Australia Test Series: Aussies stand tall again
Updated On: 11 March, 2023 09:35 AM IST | Ahmedabad | R Kaushik
Todd Murphy and Nathan Lyon frustrate Indians with 70-run ninth-wicket stand after Usman Khawaja and Cameron Green share 208 runs for the fifth wicket as visitors score massive 480 in first innings; hosts reach 36-0 at stumps on Day 2
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Todd Murphy during his 41 yesterday. Pics/Getty Images, AFP
Just how difficult it is for a sizeable partnership to take shape in India is evident from the fact that in the last decade, only one overseas pair (Dominic Sibley and Joe Root, Chennai, 2021) has put on a stand in excess of 200 in Test cricket. Usman Khawaja and Cameron Green reprised the heroics of the English duo at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Friday, but the ace in India’s pack responded in kind to ensure Australia didn’t quite run away with the second day of the final Test.
R Ashwin has been bowling exceptionally all series long, admittedly on responsive surfaces. Faced with a vastly different challenge—a slow pitch, and absolutely no assistance worth the name—the off-spinner produced another high-class exhibition of probing bowling, using his tricks in the air as his ally to uncork one of his more self-satisfying spells. His six for 91 from 47.2 overs of guile and craft and patience was the bedrock around which India wended their way back into the contest, bowling Australia out for 480 when a total in the vicinity of 550 wasn’t beyond them.
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