IND Vs AUS Third day of the first test match: At the end of the second day, Team India took a lead of 218 runs, India was close to 300.
Today is the third day of the first Test match being played between Team India and Australia in Perth. Team India ended the second day with 172 runs without the loss of any wicket and took a lead of 218 runs over the host team. During this, Indian openers KL Rahul and Jaiswal gave India a strong position by playing brilliant half-centuries, but now KL Rahul is out on the last ball of the 63rd over. Starc got him caught behind the wicket by Alex Carey. Rahul was moving towards a century but could not complete it.
Let us tell you that in the second innings on the second day, Indian openers KL Rahul and Jaiswal played brilliant half-centuries and put India in a strong position while putting Australia on the back foot. Both of them helped the team get a lead of more than 200 runs in their innings. During this, Jaiswal played an unbeaten inning of 90 runs, while KL Rahul, who came to support him, also contributed an unbeaten 62 runs.
In the second innings, KL Rahul and Jaiswal showed a mixture of patience and temperament and adapted to the difficult conditions. The sharp bowling of the Kangaroos by both the batsmen was made so easy and a flurry of runs was scored. Currently KL Rahul is out. But the Indian team is close to achieving a lead of 300 runs.
Playing 11 of both teams
India: KL Rahul, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Devdutt Padikkal, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Dhruv Jurel, Nitish Reddy, Washington Sundar, Harshit Rana, Jasprit Bumrah (captain), Mohammed Siraj.
Australia: Usman Khawaja, Nathan McSweeney, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey (wk), Pat Cummins (c), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood.
