Washington Sundar and Nitish Kumar Reddy’s outstanding collaboration gave Team India a kind of comeback. With Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul leaving early, the Indian squad had a poor start to the Boxing Day Test after Australia scored 474 runs in the first innings.
Yashasvi Jaiswal’s 82-run knock gave the team some hope, but he left before a well-earned century. Additionally, the remaining hitters were unable to contribute much, as Washington Sundar and Nitish Kumar Reddy excelled with the entire middle order back in the pavilion.
Washington Sundar added 50 runs in 162 deliveries, while Nitish Reddy remained undefeated with a total of 105* runs in 176 deliveries.
Because both the No. 8 and No. 9 hitters faced more than 150 balls each in an innings over the 147-year history of Test cricket, their partnership wrote history. In addition, Nitish Reddy became the third youngest Indian hitter to reach a first Test century in Australia, following Sachin Tendulkar and Rishabh Pant, with his century.
India is 116 runs down on day four.
Regarding the current match between Australia and India, the Indian team finished Day 3 of the match with a score of 358 runs and nine wickets lost. Even with Nitish Kumar Reddy and Washington Sundar’s outstanding combination, the Indian team is still 116 runs behind the Australians.
They’ll want to keep the trail as short as possible. After then, Team India will try to win the game by bundling the Australians on the lowest possible score. In the forthcoming second innings of the match, the Australians will be hoping to overwhelm the visitors with yet another outstanding performance, while the Indian team will be desperate to keep the BGT with the series on the line.
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