india vs australia
IND vs AUS, 5th Test: India bowled out Australia for 181 runs in the first innings just before the tea break on the second day of the fifth and final Test cricket match in Sydney on January 4. With this, Team India managed to gain a lead of four runs over Australia on the basis of first innings. Earlier, on the first day of the Sydney Test, the Indian team collapsed for 185 runs in its first innings. After captain Jasprit Bumrah (two wickets for 33 runs) went for scanning as a precautionary measure, Prasidh Krishna (four wickets for 42 runs), Mohammed Siraj (three wickets for 51 runs) and Nitish Reddy (two wickets for 32 runs) Handled the responsibility well. Beau Webster, playing his first Test match for Australia, scored the highest score of 57 runs.
Both teams were all out within 2 days
The performance of fast bowlers was seen on both days in the Sydney Test. On the first day, Australian fast bowler Scott Boland took maximum 4 wickets in his bag, while on the second day, Mohammed Siraj and Prasidh Krishna took 3 wickets each. Nitish Reddy and Bumrah hunted 2-2 batsmen. Due to excellent bowling, the first innings of both the teams ended before 200 runs. In this way a big miracle happened at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Unique record made in Sydney
In the Sydney Test, both the teams could not touch the 200-run mark in their first innings. With this a new record was made in Sydney. This is the second time in the last 70 years of Test cricket history of Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) that both the teams have been all out before 200 runs in the first innings of the Test. 44 years ago, such a unique incident was witnessed in Sydney when both the teams could not cross the 200-run mark in the first innings. This happened in the test match played between England and Australia in the year 1979-80. In this test match, England’s first innings was reduced to 123 runs while Australia’s team was bundled out for 145 runs in the first innings.
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