Virat Kohli's long awaited century gives India upper hand
Kohli played one of the best innings of his career to reach Australia's mammoth 488 and give India lead.
Shahriar KabirEditor
Posted - 2023-03-12T21:22:45+06:00
Updated - 2023-03-13T23:44:39+06:00
India vs Australia
Narendra Modi Stadium
India
571/10 (178.5)
Australia
480/10 (167.2) 175/2d (78.1)
Match Drawn
Man of the match | Virat Kohli (India) |
Highlights
India started the day from a strong position. They'd settled Kohli, who scored a fifty after 16 innings also inform Jadeja.
In a road pitch, Kohli and Jadeja had a 64 run stand. Jadeja lost his grit and tried to take on Murphy but only managed to reach the ball to Khawaj's hands.
Kohli and KS Bharat had fantastic time together, the partnership minimized the deficit. Mostly for Bharat, who had a jamboree of boundaries. Who kept ticking the scorecard while Kohli played the second fiddle role. The former fell to Nathan Lyon after scoring 44.
But the latter, Virat Kohli didn't lose his concentration. Kohli who got his last test hundred 1205 days ago, scored a magnificent test hundred today. He batted out of his skin to reach the milestone. The innings was orchestratated by 15 boundaries. He scored 186 runs and was gone by a beauty from Murphy, only 14 away from his 8th double hundred in Test match Cricket.
There were some lusty blows from Axar Patel, who took each and every Australian bowler. Axar scored 79 off 113 deliveries. The innings consists 4 monstrous blows and 5 boundaries.
In the passage of Axar and Kohli partnership, India went for lead and a late collapse from session 3 enforced Australia to negotiate 6 overs.
India got pretty 91 runs lead. While Travis Head and nightwatchman Matt Kuhnemann came to see the evening's 30 minutes. Australia went for stumps when they were 3-0 and trailing by 88 runs.
If the pitch remains same, and no demons come with Australia too don't panic and collapse to India's spin trio this test heading to a draw.