Rishabh Pant And Cheteshwar Pujara Saved Third Test Match
Rishabh Pant And Cheteshwar Pujara Saved Third Test Match: Ind vs Aus 3rd Test. These two batsmen postpone the defeat of India, the series is still 1-1.
The third match of the four-match Test series between India and host Australia was played at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Monday 11 January was the last day of the match.
This day has been very interesting. The Australian team looked ahead at the start of the first season, but the Indian team was in the driving seat after the end of the first season.
At one time it seemed that India could win this match, but in the second season as soon as the wickets of Rishabh Pant and Cheteshwar Pujara fell, then India decided to postpone the defeat in this match.
India had lost 5 wickets. At the crease were Hanuma Vihari and R Ashwin battling hamstrings. Both faced about 250 balls but did not lose wickets. India drew the match on the basis of this.
Talking about this match, Australia had scored 338 runs while batting first. In response, the Indian team was piled up by scoring 244 runs. In this way, Australia had a lead of 94 runs.
In this way, Australia scored 312 runs in their second innings and declared the innings. In this way, India had a target of 407 runs to win.
In response, India had suffered two major setbacks by the end of the fourth day of the match and the team was able to score a total of 98 runs on 32 sides.
By the end of the fifth day of the match, India scored 334 runs losing 5 wickets in 131 overs. The Indian team fell 73 runs behind the target of 407 runs given by Australia.
But the match was a draw as Australia could not take the remaining 5 wickets and India could not score 407 runs.
The match for India was saved by Hanuma Vihari and R Ashwin. Vihari scored 23 off 161 balls and Ashwin scored an unbeaten 39 off 128 balls.
India’s second innings, Pant and Pujara’s fifth
After playing the fourth day, losing 2 wickets in 32 overs on the fifth day, playing ahead of 98 runs, the Indian team got the first blow in the first session of the fifth day as captain Ajinkya Rahane could score only 4 runs.
After him, Rishabh Pant, playing at number 5, formed a good partnership with Cheteshwar Pujara. Pant completed his half-century before Pujara. He is the one who killed in this match.
Cheteshwar Pujara hit his second half-century in 170 balls. Earlier, he was dismissed for 50 runs in the first innings as well. India got the fourth blow in the form of Rishabh Pant, who scored 97 runs in 118 balls.
He was caught by Nathan Lyon at the hands of Pat Cummins. He hit 12 fours and 3 sixes in this innings and brought India in good condition.
India suffered a fifth blow in the form of Cheteshwar Pujara, who was clean bowled by 77 runs off Josh Hazlewood.
Hanuma Vihari and R Ashwin for the sixth wicket did not have a big partnership in terms of runs, but both faced close to 250 balls and postponed India’s defeat as well as Australia’s victory.
