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Dharamsala Test: India batsmen obey advantage to finish 248/6 on Day 2
- Updated: March 26, 2017
India’s Cheteshwar Pujara (L) and Lokesh Rahul run between a wickets during a second day. Pic/AFP
Dharamsala: Indian batsmen frittered divided a initial advantage before reaching 248 for 6 opposite a disciplined Australia to leave a fourth and final cricket Test uniformly poised, here today.
India are still 52 runs brief of Australia’s initial innings sum of 300 as atleast 3 batsmen unsuccessful to convert their starts into large knocks.
With a representation charity poignant spin along with good bounce, batting will usually get formidable in a third and fourth innings in what promises to be a conflict of rubbing in the subsequent 3 days.
Playing a batsmen short, opener Lokesh Rahul’s misdeed cost India dearly. India never got a required momentum after Rahul’s untimely pull-shot off a Patrick Cummins bouncer. He scored 60 off 124 balls.
Cheteshwar Pujara (57) and Ajinkya Rahane (46) also got starts before Nathan Lyon snuffed them out, extracting sharp bounce from a pitch.
India were gentle placed during 108 for one before Rahul’s exclusion and could have pushed for lead yet are struggling to turn a scores during least.
After probing spells by a new round bowlers Josh Hazlewood (1/40 in 18 overs) and Pat Cummins (1/59 off 20 overs), it was off-spinner Lyon (4/67 from 28 overs), who tormented a middle-order once again in a final session of a day that belonged to Australia.
The final event in that India scored 95 runs saw them remove as many as 4 wickets — all perplexing to be defensive opposite Lyon.
If India fought hard, credit to Ravichandran Ashwin (30 off 49 balls) and Ravindra Jadeja (16), who played their healthy diversion meaningful entirely good that small presence won’t get them anywhere as a cracks on a representation widened and the bounce remained loyal as ever.
It could have been worse had Wriddhiman Saha (10 batting) locate would have been taken by Matt Renshaw during initial slip. But if a Indian innings had a branch point, it was Rahul, who again lifted visions of a large measure before throwing his wicket.
Rahul scored a stylish half-century before throwing divided his wicket. Rahul looked gentle during his strike of 60 – his fifth half-century of a array – before a remarkable rush of blood saw him play a lift shot off a Pat Cummins brief ball only to offer a elementary skier to David Warner during cover.
Rahul strike 9 fours and a slog-swept 6 off Steve O¿Keefe and faced 124 deliveries in all.
The constant Cheteshwar Pujara (53 batting) however kept his thoroughness total en lane his 15th half-century in company of skipper Ajinkya Rahane (19 batting).
The twin have combined 45 runs for a third wicket in a session that yielded 89 runs for a hosts.
Pujara played some stately on-drives regulating his feet against both O’keefe and Nathan Lyon. The half-century came up with a whip by a mid-wicket segment as he validated his status of being India’s best batsman in a stream series. Pujara has so distant strike 5 fours in 145 balls.
The Rahul-Pujara twin combined 87 runs for a second wicket to lend reduction to a Indian innings after Murali Vijay’s (11) early departure.
Rahul was superb as ever during his innings yet his duel with Cummins during a initial and second event was worth watching.
With Australia personification on a bounciest of pitches, Cummins was used in brief bursts as Rahul showed good technique while moving divided from a bouncers.
The spell that Cummins bowled in a post lunch session was a antagonistic one yet Rahul punched a quick bowler through point segment to get a boundary.
However, carrying left a fusillade of brief stuff, his patience finally gave divided and a untimely pull-shot was a result of relapse in concentration.
With India personification a batsman short, a sauce room must not have been a really happy place for Rahul for the indiscretion that he showed.
India began solemnly during a initial hour yet courtesy Rahul picked adult a dash during a second hour as they ran well between a wickets and also punished a loose deliveries. The initial range was an inside out cover drive off Lyon. He did tarry a nasty Cummins smoothness that flew past a trip cordon.
After initial duration of caution, he did take some risks — uppishly unconditional Lyon for a range as run upsurge was stopped by a Australian bowlers. When Cummins bowled one into his ribs, he easily tucked one off his hips to excellent leg boundary. The shot off a day was an on-drive off Cummins that raced to a fence.
Pujara was plain as ever during a other finish not holding any undue risks. He teed off with a cover driven range off Hazlewood and holding singles during will. When O’Keefe was brought into a attack, he came down a lane to strike a cover drive.
Hazlewood (1/31 in 14 overs) and Cummins (1/45 in 15 overs) bowled an exquisite line in a initial hour. Especially Hazlewood, who bowled a ideal length on a off-stump getting it pierce a shade away.
Vijay strike a issuing cover expostulate off Hazlewood and got another off a bowler even yet it wasn’t a tranquil shot. But Hazlewood had found his channel by afterwards and was able to strike a few manifest cracks from that a deliveries were deviating away. A gloomy scrape was gobbled adult by Matthew Wade with Hazlewood removing his initial wicket.