Ravindra Jadeja No Ball, AUS vs IND: Team India are locking horns with the Australian cricket team in the third of the four-match Border Gavaskar Trophy Test series.
While Team India have already retained the Border Gavaskar Trophy, the series is not done and dusted. Two more games are still in hand and India are looking for one more win to seal the series.
Team India won the Test opener by an inning and 132 runs at Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur. As a result, they drew the first blood in the Test series.
After that, they went on to mount pressure on the Aussies in the second Test match as well. As a result, they went on to win the second Test by six wickets at Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi.
Meanwhile, the third Test match between Team India and Australia is taking place at Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore. Indian skipper Rohit Sharma won the toss and chose to bat first.
The wicket offered a great deal of bounce and turn for the spinners. The spin bowlers extracted quite a lot from the surfaced and then reaped rewards.
AUS vs IND: Ravindra Jadeja makes a mess of Marnus Labuschagne’s stumps and it was a no-ball
During the first ball of the fourth over, Ravindra Jadeja bowled a superb ball and got rid of Australia’s Test specialist, Marnus Labuschagne.
Jadeja inadvertently stepped over the crease, meaning that it was a ‘no-ball’. This was also the third time in the series that Jadeja dismissed an Australian batter on a no-ball.
It was really disappointing for him and for the team. Marnus was totally bamboozled by the turn of the delivery and was clean-bowled in the process.
Earlier, India were slumped to a mere 109 in the first innings. Matthew Kuhnemann was the pick of the bowlers for the Australia cricket team as he took a five-wicket haul.
Playing XI: India vs Australia
India
Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Ravindra Jadeja, Srikar Bharat (wk), Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Siraj
Australia
Usman Khawaja, Travis Head, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith (c), Peter Handscomb, Cameron Green, Alex Carey (wk), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Todd Murphy, Matthew Kuhnemann