IND-A vs AUS-A: India team suffers major blow, starts Australia tour with loss

Published On: November 3, 2024 8:41 am

IND-A and AUS-A: The Indian team will visit Australia this month. Prior to this, an unofficial test match was ongoing between India A team and Australia A team. Among them, India A team suffered a big setback at the beginning of the tour. India were defeated by Australia in the first unofficial Test match. Australia A won this match on the fourth day and defeated India A by 7 wickets. The captaincy of India A team is in the hands of Ruturaj Gaikwad. Some players from the India A team have also been selected in the India squad for the Test match against Australia starting from November 22.

How was the game?

Talking about this match between the two teams, in this match the Australian team captain Nathan McSweeney won the toss and decided to bowl. After that, India A team took the lead. They were out at full strength after just 107 runs. Devdutt Padikkal scored India’s highest innings score of 36 runs. After all, India A and Australia A both came out to bat, and they didn’t do anything special. His team went all out after scoring 195 points. Mukesh Kumar bowled brilliantly for India A in this innings, taking 6 wickets and scoring 46 runs in 18.4 overs. Apart from this, Prasidh Krishna also took three wickets in this innings.

Great work by Sai Sudarshan and Devdutt Padikkal

Now, India struck again in the second innings but openers Ruturaj Gaikwad and Abhimanyu Iswaran could not do anything special and India were reduced to 30 runs Two wickets were lost. Thereafter, Sai Sudarshan and Devdutt Padikkal took over the Indian innings and the two batsmen combined for 196 runs for the fourth wicket. Therefore India A team was able to achieve a very good position.

However, after these two were dismissed, no other player handled the innings and India A were all out for 312 runs. Sai Sudarshan scored an innings of 103 runs in this match and Devdutt Padikkal scored 88 runs. He set a target of 225 runs for Australia A to win. Australia A were chasing after losing only 3 wickets.