IND vs AUS, Ravindra Jadeja: Indian cricket team was facing the Australia cricket team in the first match on Friday, March 17. Moreover, the game was being played at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, India.
India was coming into this game after drawing against Australia in the fourth test match. Steve Smith went on to win the toss and he decided to bat first at the Narendra Modi Stadium.
Australia went on to hit 480 and 172 runs respectively in the first and second innings. While India went on to put up 571 runs in the first innings. India won the test series by 2-1 against Australia.
Virat Kohli won the man of the match award against Australia in the fourth test. He went on to score 186 runs from 364 balls with a strike rate of 51.10.
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Cameron Green went on to score 114 runs against India. While he did so from 170 balls with a strike rate of 67.06. Cameron Green hit 18 fours.
Both teams India and Australia have gone on to face 143 times in ODI cricket. Moreover, India has won 53 times while Australia has won 80 times.
IND vs AUS: Ravindra Jadeja showcases irresponsible play, Marnus Labuschagne misses run out by inches
Cricket is sometimes a funny game with margins as little as inches costing and hurting one side or the other. Plenty of examples of such have taken place in recent years.
Ravindra Jadeja was casually looking at someone else and moving out of the crease. Marnus Labuschagne saw it and threw the ball. Though the ball didn’t hit the stumps it was just inches away from turning the game.
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IND VS AUS Playing XI:
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.
