Ravichandran Ashwin returned with a three-wicket haul on Thursday to assist India skittle out Australia for 197 within the third Test of the Border-Gavaskar. Ashwin’s efficiency, wherein he took the wickets of Peter Handscomb, Alex Carey and Nathan Lyon, helped the hosts restrict the guests’ lead. The three wickets additionally meant that Ashwin now has 689 worldwide wickets, surpassing Kapil Dev (687), to be the third-highest wicket-taker for India throughout codecs. Anil Kumble (953) and Harbhajan Singh (707) maintain the highest two locations.
Talking concerning the match, Australia misplaced their final six first innings wickets for simply 11 runs on Thursday as they collapsed to 197 all out on the second morning of the third Test in opposition to India.
India had been 13-0 at lunch of their second innings in Indore, trailing by 75 runs, after captain Rohit Sharma (5) and Shubman Gill (4) negotiated a difficult 10-minute interval earlier than the interval safely.
Resuming on 156-4, Cameron Green and Peter Handscomb did properly to outlive the primary hour on a spinning pitch with unpredictable bounce, however as soon as they departed India mopped up the remainder of the order in a rush with seamer Umesh Yadav taking three wickets.
The tall Green used his lengthy stride to neutralise India’s spin assault, remaining busy between the wickets as Australia regarded to construct a stable lead and are available again within the four-Test collection after defeats within the first two matches.
But after the drinks break Handscomb departed for 19, caught by Shreyas Iyer at brief leg off Ravichandran Ashwin, having added 12 to his in a single day rating.
The subsequent over Cameron Green fell for 21, trapped lbw by Umesh, who then bowled Mitchell Stark for one, sending the left-hander’s off stump cartwheeling in the direction of wicketkeeper Srikar Bharat.
Alex Carey departed for 3, lbw to Ashwin, Umesh bowled Todd Murphy for a duck and Nathan Lyon was bowled by Ashwin for 5.
Ravindra Jadeja had taken all 4 Australian wickets on Wednesday, together with Usman Khawaja who made a trendy 60, and completed with figures of 4-78. Ashwin took 3-44 and Umesh 3-12.
India gained the toss and batted on the primary day Wednesday just for Australia’s spinners to bowl them out simply after lunch for simply 109, with Matthew Kuhnemann taking 5 wickets.
With AFP inputs
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