Rohit Sharma hits fifty in 1st Test India VS Australia Day 1 || Highlights: Rohit Sharma (56 Runs), Ravindra Jadeja (5 wicket) Star As India Dominate Australia On First Day

India vs Australia, 1st Test, Day 1 Highlights Rohit Sharma led with an unbeaten 56 after India sailed out Australia for 177 runs at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur on Thursday.

Rohit and KL Rahul stitched 76 runs for the opening gate before the ultimate fell for 20 runs on the bowling of Todd Murphy. India was 77 for 1 at sums on Day 1. ahead, hosts India sailed out of Australia for a below-par total, thanks to Ravindra Jadeja'sfive-gate haul and Ravichandran Ashwin's three structures.

Mohammed Shami and Mohammed Siraj had reduced Australia to 2 for 2 in 2.1 overs to give India an atrocious launch before the brace of Jadeja and Ashwin ran through the spine of the Australian fur line-up. Marnus Labuschagne was the topmost songwriter in Australia with a score of 49.

Australia (Playing XI): David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Matt Renshaw, Peter Handscomb, Alex Carey(w), Pat Cummins(c), Nathan Lyon, Todd Murphy, Scott Boland


India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Srikar Bharat(w), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj


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AUSTRALIA BATTING


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Ravindra Jadeja makes an incredible comeback after a lengthy injury layoff, taking five wickets. What makes this spell even more impressive is that it came on the first day of a test series, putting India on top. #INDvsAUS #BorderGavaskarTrophy #ACC pic.twitter.com/3z347VQAYU

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Australia’s batsmen made it will look harder than it actually was. maybe, Rohit Sharma cavalier approach was the way to the club on this low-brio, slow-turning sundeck. perhaps, Australia was a bit overcautious in phases in the first session. perhaps, India’s baits simply sailed better, tighter, and sharper, however, without any mistrustfulness this was a grueling face to club.

It was a grueling but not unplayable face, and none of the 11 lattices, barring that of KL Rahul where the ball gripped and turned and clouded his judgment, began from the face playing wicked. Ravindra Jadeja would latterly say “ This wasn’t a rank acrobat. It was slow and had low brio, compared to first-day pitches( in the key). I felt defending wasn’t a delicate moment. ” He, however, fired a warning “ Defending would be delicate in the coming days. ”

There were only two cases of natural variation playing bit-part places in discharges, like the lattices of Steve Smith and Pat Cummins. But other than those cases, the bowlers should feature in the credit part. A variety of approaches worked. The grind and aggression of Marnus Labuschagne and Smith in the first session, wherein they soaked the early troubles and stroked some noble shots in their 82-run- association. Labuschagne especially looked unalarmed — he drove Ravichandran Ashwin, sailed from around the wholes played outside out through redundant cover for three before he paddles- swept him for a four, Smith gorgeously drove Axar Patel through the covers. It was the classical system, classical as the batsmen to are.

🗣️🗣️ I found great rhythm with my bowling today#TeamIndia all-rounder @imjadeja reflects on his super five-wicket haul on Day 1️⃣ of the first #INDvAUS Test.@mastercardindia pic.twitter.com/PBo8camct0

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The approach of the gate- keeper-batsman Alex Carey was entirely different. He'd sweep and reverse reach to glory for his 33-ball 36, and it was he who rattled India’s baits further than Smith and Labuschagne, where the baits knew that a killer ball was lurking and it was a matter of pressing and probing. But Carey’s rear- reach convinced mayhem, with Sharma indeed summoning Siraj for a spell, only to be taken after Carey sliced and drove him for a brace of boundaries in an over, before creaming for another two in the coming over. The fields and plans were constantly switched, bowlers changed ends and angles, the virtue of tolerance that was India’s guiding star until that moment sounded to wane. Indeed Ravindra Jadeja had his hands on his head when he reverse-swept him off his wholes. It took Ashwin to end his gem, ended by a rear-reach that he under- edged. But no other remaining Australian batsman could replicate his approach. The lone other surviving specialist batsman was Peter Handscomb, who's further a grinder than a raider, whose 31 came off 87 sweaty balls, where he constantly played and missed outside the batsman.

Also, Rohit Sharma arrived with a flurry of boundaries. The first edge through the slip cordon, but the rest were insuperably timed. He took risk on Cummins’s unusual leg-side gifts before smelling the fangs of Lyon, India’s predominant trouble throughout the innings and beyond, by sweeping, driving, and thumping him. His scoring rate will be misinterpreted as he was taking pitfalls. He wasn't frequently, rather he was hitting boundaries off indeed semi-loose balls and trusting his chance strokes and defense. His knock had a Carey- suchlike effect on Australia’s bowlers. They chose protective lengths and fields and set elaborate traps, and yet Sharma brought boundaries and reduced India’s deficiency to 100 runs.

Stumps on Day 1️⃣ of the first #INDvAUS Test!#TeamIndia finish the day with 77/1, trailing by 100 runs after dismissing Australia for 177 👌🏻

We will see you tomorrow for Day 2 action!

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In doing so, he might have laid the design of fur on this face, which would precipitously get worse for fur as the face wears on and the greenishness beneath turns a more prominent color. A system wherein a batsman is neither counter-attacking nor stonewalling, but maximizing the boundary-scoring openings, concluding the shots that would work and that wouldn’t, always apprehensive of the reality that one ball could grip, turn, and could indeed vault.

For bowlers, this would be a tolerance game, where Jadeja, Lyon, and Co should string fleck balls, subside up the pressure and frustrate the batsmen into doing commodity silly, and play the cat and mouse game occasionally. However, consider it a perk rather than soliciting for the pitch to crack open and perform magic every time they ding the ball If an unplayable gift of the face ball arrives. That’s an idiocy a lot of overseas baits make in spin-friendly key conditions — just like Asian cleft when they travel abroad. They get carried down and end up getting frustrated, lose control over their plan, and mess up with the lengths.