IND vs AUS: The 4-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy played between India and Australia started on February 9 at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground in Nagpur. Before the start of the Test series, the most discussion was seen about the two batsmen of the Kangaroo team, in which one was Steve Smith and the other was Marnus Labuschagne. However, both these batsmen could not do anything special in the first day’s play. Labushen also said about his batting after the end of the day’s play that he learned some of the shots he played during the innings by watching Virat Kohli.
The Australian team was reduced to 177 runs in their first innings on the very first day of the Nagpur Test. In which Maransh Labushen scored the maximum 49 runs. At the same time, Steve Smith also played an inning of 37 runs. From the Indian team, Ravindra Jadeja took 5 wickets while Ravichandran Ashwin played an important role in wrapping up the Kangaroo team quickly. At the end of the first day’s play, the Indian team had scored 77 runs in their first innings at the loss of 1 wicket.
A score of 220 to 240 on this pitch would have been much better in my view
Marnus Labuschen further said about the first day’s game that the ball is getting a lot of spin on this wicket and we were batting very well at one time but due to the sudden fall of the wicket, our innings ended soon. I think if we could get 220 to 240 in our first innings it would have been great.
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