🏏Australia vs India, 4th Test: Melbourne, 26 - 30 Dec 2024: Day 5 🏏- Page 40

Boland to Pant, OUT

Rishabh Pant c Lyon b Boland 28 (37b 3x4 0x6) SR: 75.67

Lyon to Jadeja, out Lbw!! Jadeja lbw b Lyon 17(51) [4s-3]

Lyon to Jadeja, THATS OUT!! Lbw!!

Jadeja has been trapped in front but after a discussion with Nitish Reddy, he takes the review. That looked adjacent to the naked eye. Was the slider on a length from Lyon. It came in with the arm from outside off, Jadeja with a closed bat-face tried

Pant's reckless shot was unpardonable. He knows the situation, still he played like a kid, what he wanted to prove, by playing that shot??

Cummins to Nitish Reddy, no run, this is exciting stuff! Cummins switches to round the wicket and hurls in a 139.1kph bouncer on off, Nitish Reddy has to sway away quickly and drop his wrists to evade it. Two maidens in a row for Cummins!

AUS 474

IND 230/7 (68.5)

CRR: 3.34

Day 3: 1st Session - India trail by 244 runs

Thankfully, we are crawling towards the magic mark--275, to avoid follow on!!!

Such a situation we are in! What to say?

That runout and this reckless shot by Pant put us in this situation. If Jaiswal was there for an hour or so, by now, we must be in 300+ runs.

Lunch break--

Session Highlights: 27 overs | 80 runs | 2 wickets. Australia will be pleased to get rid of Pant and Jadeja this morning, Cummins and Boland started off well and bowled in disciplined channels. The pitch played well - Jadeja adopted a circumspect approach while Pant kept the scoreboard ticking. It was looking good for the visitors but a poor shot from Pant resulted in his downfall to Boland. He attempted a scoop on the previous ball without any success and he tried it again but only to get a leading edge down to third man's throat.

Originally posted by: Viswasruti

Pant's reckless shot was unpardonable. He knows the situation, still he played like a kid, what he wanted to prove, by playing that shot??

Cheers..

This lengthy 5 test match series ia taking toll of India Players.

Jadeja, rohit, virat , bumrah all are 30 plus.

Except bumrah, all 3 lack the intent, determination to stay on the crease and play a sensible innings for the team.

Top order is not performing as per their caliber, hence the pressure automatically shifts to lower order batsmen to score runs and eventually avoid the follow on and save the match.

AUS 474

IND 253/7 (75)

CRR: 3.37

Day 3: 2nd Session - India trail by 221 runs

Reddy is on 41 runs.

Washington is on 13.... please cross that number as soon as possible boy!

First time in eight Tests India made the opposition take second new ball in their first innings. The last instance came against Bangladesh in Chennai in September.