The Indian team is not in good form. Recently, New Zealand defeated India 3-0 in three Test matches. Due to this defeat, the Indian team had to suffer a huge loss in the World Test standings. The Indian team had to lose its top spot in the points table. After the Test series against New Zealand, the Indian team now has to play the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia in Perth from November 22. The trophy will be played in a 5-match Test series. Although there is still some time left in the series, India A suffered a heavy defeat on the tour of Australia.
India A sweeps away rivals
In fact, in the second unofficial Test match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the MCG, the host Australia A defeated India A by 6 wickets. India’s first-innings score was reduced to 161 runs. Except for Dhruv Yurel, no batsman reached base. Jurel scored 80 points in an inning. After this, Australia A team scored 223 runs. In the second game, the Indian team performed slightly better, but it was still insufficient. This time, Dhruv Jurel was also the Indian batsman to score the highest score of 68 runs. India scored 229 runs in the second innings and Australia’s winning target was 168 runs. Australia started the second innings poorly but achieved the target with 6 wickets remaining thanks to Sam Constas’ unbeaten 73 and Beau Webster’s unbeaten 46 .
Indian batsmen disappointed
Just like that, the Australia A team whitewashed the Indian team 2-0 in the second unofficial Test series. Earlier, Australia defeated India by 7 wickets in the first unofficial Test match. India A’s defeat ahead of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy has put the Indian team on edge. For the second Test match of the series, KL Rahul and Dhruv Jurel were sent to Australia before BGT so that the duo could make some preparations. But KL Rahul was disappointing in both the innings while Jurel hit half-centuries in both the innings. In the first innings, he was just 20 runs short of his century.
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