New Delhi
The first match of India vs Australia 5-match Border Gavaskar Trophy is being played in Perth. In this match, the Indian team, which won the toss and came to bat first, got bundled out for only 150 runs in front of the dangerous bowling of Australia. Josh Hazlewood took maximum 4 wickets during this period. However, the credit for one of these wickets goes to Nathan McSweeney and Marnus Labuschagne because they took such a powerful catch in the slip that everyone was surprised after seeing it.
This catch is of the 47th over of the Indian innings. The fourth ball of the over took the outside edge of Harshit Rana’s bat and went to Nathan McSweeney at slip. Nathan McSweeney tried to take the catch by diving to his left, but the ball hit his hand and was scattered. However, Marnus Labuschagne, who was present there, showed excellent presence of mind and caught the ball before it hit the ground. Everyone looked surprised after seeing this relay catch of Australian players.
Yashasvi Jaiswal, who came to open the Indian innings, returned to the pavilion without opening the account. After this, Devdutt Padikkal also could not open his account at number-3. Josh Hazlewood gave the third blow to India by dismissing Virat Kohli on a personal score of 5. Before the announcement of lunch, KL Rahul was controversially out on the score of 26 on the ball of Starc.
After lunch break, Mitchell Marsh made Dhruv Jurel (11) and Washington Sundar (4) his victims. The valuable wicket of Pant was taken by Pat Cummins who could score 37 runs. After this, Harshit Rana was out after scoring 7 runs and captain Jasprit Bumrah was out after scoring 8 runs. The last blow to India came in the form of Nitish Rana. Apart from Josh Hazlewood, Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Mitchell Marsh got 2-2 wickets.