Australia vs India

2023 - 2 - 9

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India vs Australia Live Score, 1st Test Day 1: Titanic clash begins in ... (Hindustan Times)

IND vs AUS Live Cricket Score, 1st Test Day 1 Latest Updates: India are looking to make a good start to the series as they look for a fourth consecutive win ...

As stated earlier, it's Test cricket time! It's Test cricket time! India and Australia have played each other in 12 series, 50 Test matches to be sure before the contest was given its current name in 1996/97. Ian Healy found an early way of absolving Australia of any wrongdoing incase they get pancaked in this series by stating that a defeat for the visitors will occur if India produce “unfair” pitches. Pat Cummins: "I think that's part of the challenge of playing away. There was the brain fade moment where Steve Smith looked towards the dressing room while contemplating whether to take a DRS or not, leading to Virat Kohli stepping just short of calling them cheats. Regardless of what the spinning wicket is like, it will always be one where Ashwin would be almost unplayable. Right, here are Rohit Sharma and Pat Cummins in their Test blazers. We feel we are really well placed. We have had a good prep for the last 5-6 days. - Catch live score and updates of India vs Australia 1st Test Match here.

India v Australia: first Test, day one – live (The Guardian)

13th over: Australia 29-2 (Smith 6, Labuschagne 14) Siraj gets a spell and Shami returns. Australians will recall the veteran India quick from the 2015 ...

“Sky” has become a people’s hero with his six-hitting in the white ball formats and after 79 first-class matches he will finally gets to pull on the Test shirt for India at the ripe old age of 32. That was a big toss to win and Pat Cummins’ run of luck with the coin has continued. There was much talk in the lead up to this series about Head’s disappointing record on the subcontinent and his plan to combat it with the all-out aggression so successful in the home summer. 3rd over: Australia 6-2 (Smith 0, Labuschagne 0) Even two wickets down after three overs, the names Smith and Labuschagne inspire confidence. His first ball of the series is wide and skids low. He pulls his head in on the last and lets it drop at his feet. He wants more of a look at the leftie and a single is sufficient from this 10th over. However Smith swipes at the fifth ball and pulls it just short of a fielder. 15th over: Australia 33-2 (Smith 6, Labuschagne 19) Shami returns and so does the Australian stalemate. 18th over: Australia 44-2 (Smith 10, Labuschagne 24) Here comes Patel, a slower action to Jadeja but all the venom comes from that final flick of the wrists. 11th over: Australia 27-2 (Smith 6, Labuschagne 14) Siraj steams in for a fifth over, this one to Labuschagne who has now faced twice as many balls as Smith. Australia have broken the deadlock now and the pace is quickening.

Live Report - India vs Australia, 1st Test, Nagpur (ESPNcricinfo.com)

Smith 77% after 30 balls. I'm getting the feeling that's because Smith is actively trying to attack the spinners more than Labuschagne is. And at one of those ...

Mushfiqur Rahim and Litton Das are the only other pair to account for more than 10% of their team’s runs. No other pair has proved as prolific for their team in Tests in recent times than this one. All through this partnership, Smith and Labuschagne have been spectacularly decisive.

Great Aussie mystery a 'f***ing disgrace' amid Cummins' 'buffet ... (Fox Sports)

Great Aussie mystery a 'f***ing disgrace' amid Cummins' 'buffet' howler: Talking Pts.

It was reminiscent of what Travis Head achieved during the recent home summer against South Africa and the West Indies. Rather than relying on the pitch for variation on Thursday, Jadeja mixed up his pace, release angle and length to ensure the Australians never felt comfortable in the middle. Marnus Labuschagne, Smith, Matthew Renshaw and Pat Cummins were each dismissed by spinners while playing with a straight bat. You split the series up and my white-ball was really good, so maybe being a little bit more positive in red-ball cricket,” Head told foxsports.com.au. “He’s been way too full, and very uncharacteristic of Pat, who genuinely hits a very hard length. other than that, I think I worked really hard and had a sound game plan.” Playing with a horizontal bat negates the side spin on India’s raging turners. “And now he has been axed. The 31-year-old waltzed to the crease with Australia in a spot of bother at 5-109 - subcontinent maestro Steve Smith was back in the sheds and India was one wicket away from exposing the tail. He’s been too full. You wonder what this will do to his confidence. “Australia has always liked Head but he’s been a delicate manage and it’s taken the selectors six years of cursing and cajoling, dropping and recalling to get the man to meet his potential.

India vs Australia: After Ravindra Jadeja, Rohit Sharma ensures ... (The Indian Express)

Just after Rohit Sharma clumped Nathan Lyon over mid-wicket, the off-spinner stared suspiciously at the surface. The pitch might have stared back ...

[David Warner](https://indianexpress.com/about/david-warner/) in the space of six balls; Labuschagne and Renshaw in two. He would sweep and reverse sweep to glory for his 33-ball 36, and it was he who rattled India’s spinners more than Smith and Labuschagne, where the spinners knew that a killer ball was lurking and it was a matter of pressing and probing. In doing so, he might have laid the blueprint of batting on this surface, which would progressively get worse for batting as the surface wears on and the redness beneath turns the more prominent colour. [Steve Smith](https://indianexpress.com/about/steve-smith/) and Pat Cummins. [KL Rahul](https://indianexpress.com/about/kl-rahul/) where the ball gripped and turned and clouded his judgement, originated from the surface playing wicked. Labuschagne especially looked unalarmed — he drove [Ravichandran Ashwin](https://indianexpress.com/about/ravichandran-ashwin/), bowled from around the stumps he played inside out through extra cover for three before he paddle-swept him for a four, Smith gorgeously drove [Axar Patel](https://indianexpress.com/about/axar-patel/) through the covers. They get carried away and end up getting frustrated, lose control over their plan and mess up with the lengths. He was not often, rather he was hitting boundaries off even semi-loose balls and trusting his percentage strokes and defence. [Ravindra Jadeja](https://indianexpress.com/about/ravindra-jadeja/) would later say: “This wasn’t a rank turner. Maybe, India’s spinners simply bowled better, tighter and sharper, though without any doubt this was a challenging surface to bat. Maybe, Australia were a fraction overcautious in phases in the first session. Perhaps, this was a case of batsman’s skills providing the pitch a harmless makeover.

India vs Australia, 1st Test, Australia tour of India, 2023 (Cricbuzz)

CRR: 3.21. Batting, R(B), 4s, 6s, SR. Rohit Sharma*, 56(69), 9, 1, 81.16. Ravichandran Ashwin, 0(5), 0, 0, 0. Bowling, O, M, R, W.

Fired in full on middle and leg, Rohit works it to midwicket and turns down the single straightaway 49.3 Lyon to Kohli, no run, length ball on middle, Kohli defends to short leg 50.1 Murphy to Kohli, no run, full on off, Kohli smothers it on the front foot