India are taking full benefit of excellent batting situations by transferring to lunch at 1-129 on day three of the fourth Test towards Australia in Ahmedabad.
Australia’s lead has been lower to 351 after they piled on 480 of their first innings due to Usman Khawaja’s marathon 180 and Cameron Green’s maiden Test century.
Exciting younger India opener Shubman Gill is unbeaten on 65 after captain Rohit Sharma was the one wicket to fall within the morning session on Saturday.
Sharma (35) scooped a drive straight to Marnus Labuschagne at quick cowl off left-arm spinner Matt Kuhnemann’s bowling.
Kuhnemann (1-20) and fellow spinner Nathan Lyon (0-30) have bowled tidily however Australia’s solely frontline fast, Mitchell Starc, has been taken down by Gill.
The veteran left-armer has figures of 0-49 off 9 overs, whereas allrounder Cameron Green has been solely sparingly used.
Young spinner Todd Murphy, who took seven wickets on debut in Nagpur final month, was not introduced on by performing captain Steve Smith till the thirty second over.
This match on the colossal Narendra Modi Stadium has been a dramatic turnaround after the primary three Tests of the sequence led to lower than three days on raging turners.
But the ultimate Test of the Border-Gavaskar battle is poised to go the complete 5 days on a pitch extra suited to batting.
If Australia may pull off a win in Ahmedabad, they’d degree the sequence 2-2 in what could be a big achievement within the notoriously robust Indian situations.
India are determined to win the sequence 3-1 and safe their place within the World Test Championship closing at The Oval in London in June, towards Australia.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
