The first match of the Border Gavaskar Trophy series is being played today at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur. Seeing the pitch, Indian captain Rohit Sharma gave Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, and Ashwin a chance in the playing 11. This morning, Australia captain Pat Cummins won the toss and decided to bat first. In response, Australia’s opening batsmen, David Warner and Usman Khawaja, were both dismissed after only one run. Mohammad Siraj got the first success for the Indian team by getting David Warner out LBW on the first ball of the second over of the match. As of the writing of this article, the excellent bowling attack of the Indian team has made Australia all out for 177 runs.
The Australian team bowed down in front of Ravindra Jadeja
Ravindra Jadeja, returning to the team after a long time of injury, forced the Australian batsman to kneel with his spin bowling. The Indian team got the first 2 wickets quickly but an 82-run partnership was formed between Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne who came to bat on the pitch. Jadeja broke the partnership of both. Jadeja took a total of 5 wickets in this match.
Ravichandran Ashwin created history
Ravichandran Ashwin, an accomplished star spinner for the Indian side, has made Test cricket history. He has outdueled some of the greatest bowlers in history to take the fastest 450 Test wickets. Ashwin is currently the bowler to take 450 Tests for the second-fastest time. By getting his maiden wicket in the Nagpur Test against Australia, 36-year-old off-spinner Ashwin accomplished this achievement. Ashwin had an average of 24.30 wickets in 88 Tests prior to the Nagpur match. R Ashwin took 3/42 in today’s match in a total of 15.5 overs.
India|Playing XI: Rohit Sharma (c), KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Srikar Bharat (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj
Australia|Playing XI: David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Matt Renshaw, Peter Handscomb, Alex Carey (wk), Pat Cummins (c), Nathan Lyon, Todd Murphy, Scott Boland