Welcome to news.com.au’s reside protection of the opening Test between Australia and India from Nagpur.
Australia will probably be hoping for a change in fortune after an unpleasant opening day that noticed them bowled out for a bleak 177 after shedding the ultimate 5 wickets for simply 15 runs.
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India in the meantime seemed like they had been batting on a distinct pitch as captain Rohit Sharma slammed 56 off 69 balls on the day to guide India to 1/77 at stumps and a commanding place.
Debutant Todd Murphy supplied the one glimmer of hope on the day for the Aussies, choosing up his first Test wicket within the second final over of the day as he despatched KL Rahul on his approach.
India will look to place the vacationers additional to the sword once they resume on the crease at 3pm (AEDT).
Don’t miss any of the motion beneath.
6.25pm – Guess the pitch isn’t that unhealthy…
Rohit Sharma has introduced up his hundred, chipping Todd Murphy over cowl to convey up the milestone.
However, he’s needed to play a lone hand as the following greatest rating up to now has been 23 by Ravi Ashwin, who got here in as a nightwatchman.
The Aussies had a few 30s and Marnus Labuschagne rating 49 nevertheless it’s a outstanding innings from Sharma on a wicket which has seen spin take 13 of the 15 wickets within the match up to now.
6.10pm – Aussie spinner wreak havoc as Lyon joins social gathering
Nathan Lyon has joined Todd Murphy’s social gathering, taking his first wicket of the sequence, bamboozling Test debutant Suryakumar Yadav for 8.
It was a beautful ball from Lyon, going again by way of the gate to take India’s fifth wicket.
Rohit Sharma has performed a lone hand and is closing in on a century however the remainder of the batters seem to have struggled within the situation with the India nonetheless in need of Australia’s first innings rating.
5.40pm – Murphy delivering one thing particular right here
The first ball after lunch and Todd Murphy has executed it once more, this time eliminating the damaging Virat Kohli.
The ball slide down the leg aspect as Kohli stood up and seemed to whip it away solely to get the faintest of edges on the ball with Alex Carey taking a juggling catch.
It provides Murphy his fourth wicket of the innings, making him solely the third man in Australian Test historical past to take the primary 4 wickets on debut.
5pm – Lunch on day two
Two wickets for the Aussies, 74 runs for the Indians.
The indicators had been promising for Todd Murphy, however the remainder of the Australian bowling assault failed to fireplace a shot.
Indian stay in a commanding place with solely three wickets having fallen and Virat Kohli now becoming a member of Rohit Sharma on the crease.
4.30pm – Aussie freak’s 66-year Test first
Todd Murphy is carrying the Australian bowling assault on his again.
The debutant collected his second wicket of the innings after thumping a ball into the pads of Ravi Ashwin.
After initially being given not out, the Aussies fortunately despatched it upstairs with DRS in the end figuring out the ball was going to thunder into leg stump.
A handful of overs later Murphy was again within the thick of it after hitting the pads of Rohit Sharma. The ball looped up and was finally caught by a diving Steve Smith with the Aussies once more sending it upstairs.
On first view it seemed as if the ball might have caught the within edge just for ball monitoring to substantiate there was no edge earlier than DRS confirmed it has hit him outdoors the road.
In his very subsequent over within the assault nonetheless Murphy picked up his third wicket after luring Cheteshwar Pujara right into a unfastened shot.
A ball extensive outdoors leg stump noticed Pujara try a slog sweep just for the ball to balloon up and fall into the palms of Scott Boland.
Murphy joins an illustrious record of Test debutants to take the opening three wickets, turning into the primary Australian participant to attain the feat since 1957.
3.35pm – Aussie assault being bludgeoned
Rohit Sharma and Ravi Ashwin are retaining their foot on the gasoline early on in the course of the second day of the opening Test.
Nathan Lyon and Todd Murphy have had an in depth likelihood every, however apart from that it’s been all one-way visitors.
Sharma despatched Pat Cummins over the rope earlier than Ashwin adopted go well with solely a handful of deliveries later off the bowling of Nathan Lyon.
2.15pm – India reply to damning footage
Nothing to see right here people, only a participant person ache aid cream on his finger. Not the ball.
Damning footage led to eyebrows being raised in the course of the opening day’s play when Ravindra Jadeja gave the impression to be rubbing one thing on the ball earlier than one among his overs.
The TV broadcast captured Jadeja showing to both take one thing off the hand of one among his teammates, or from inside his hand, along with his proper hand.
He then rubbed his palms and finger close to and across the ball although it was unsure what precisely was occurring.
But Indian officers have tried to downplay the second, saying he was merely “applying pain-relief cream to the index finger of his bowling hand”, in keeping with ESPNcricinfo.
“While the incident triggered debates on social and mainstream media, it is learned that the Australia team had not brought the matter to the attention of the match referee,” the report mentioned.
“According to the playing conditions, the match referee can independently probe such incidents without needing a complaint to be lodged. And under the Laws of Cricket, the bowler needs the umpire’s permission to apply any sort of substance on their hands to ensure the condition of the ball remains unaffected.”
12.30pm – Clarke ‘bewildered’ by Head omission
Former Test skipper Michael Clarke couldn’t imagine his ears when news filtered out that Travis Head, the quantity 4 ranked batter on the planet, had been unnoticed of the Aussie group for the First Test.
The bombshell resolution to depart out the person who was arguably Australia’s greatest batter of the summer time despatched shockwaves across the cricket neighborhood.
Steve Waugh was flabbergasted, Matthew Hayden was equally perplexed as cricket followers blew up on the resolution.
Clarke weighed in and was simply as dumbfounded by what the Australian selectors had executed.
“The only thing I can’t get my head around is the selectors, Pat Cummins, Andrew McDonald … why they dropped Travis Head?” Clarke mentioned on Big Sports Breakfast.
While the previous skipper mentioned he may perceive placing Handscomb into the group at No. 5 forward of Head at No. 6, it was the inclusion of Renshaw that baffled him.
Renshaw has been opening the batting for Queensland in the course of the Sheffield Shield season, however Clarke says that in comparison with batting within the center order in India was “like speaking French compared to speaking English”.
“I can’t understand it. I can’t comprehend it,” he mentioned.
“The other thing, Travis Head bowls. He bowls right arm off spin. His bowling in India will be very, very handy. I’m so confused and bewildered by that decision.
“The other thing, if you’re not going to pick the No. 4 best batter in the world for the First Test match, what is he doing on the tour?
“With only four bowlers, Travis Head as an all-rounder is a no-brainer for me.”
Another former Australian Test skipper nonetheless wasn’t as shocked by the omission.
Ricky Ponting informed the ICC Review podcast that whereas he may perceive the dismay on the choice from some corners of Australian cricket, the writing had been on the wall for Head’s omission.
“The more I thought about it, the fact that they played Matt Renshaw in Sydney to me meant they probably had other plans in mind for him,” Ponting mentioned.
“Obviously, the most immediate plan was for him to bat in the middle order for Australia in this Test series against India.
“And when you look at that, if they’re going to keep him in, they couldn’t really afford to keep Travis Head in either because then they would have five left-handers in their top seven.”
Ponting mentioned retaining Head within the group at Peter Handscomb’s expense would have performed into the palms of India’s star off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin.
“The other side of it is that Travis’ record outside of Australia and on the subcontinent is nowhere near as good,” Ponting mentioned.
“So when you put all those pieces together, I actually wasn’t that surprised … there’s been a bit of an uproar here in Australia about ‘how could the selectors do this’?
“I know (Renshaw) was out first ball today, I’ll forgive him of that – the other thing to keep in mind is they’ve been over here for what is just about a week now, so they’ve done a lot of training, the coaches and selectors would’ve kept an eye on training and watched who was coping with the spin better than others.”
– with Ed Bourke, NCA Newswire
Originally printed as Australia vs India first Test reside: Todd Murphy information 66-year first in debut
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
