IND vs AUS: A five-match Test series is being played between India and Australia. Team India scored 150 runs in the first innings of the first match of this series. After which, while bowling brilliantly, the Indian team all out Australia on the score of 104 runs. Due to which the Indian team got a lead of 46 runs. Although Team India could have made its lead even bigger, but Mitchell Starc prevented this from happening.
Mitchell Starc’s wonder
Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc is known for his brilliant bowling, but against India he also did wonders with the bat. Actually, Team India had dropped 9 wickets of Australia on the score of 79 runs. After this, Team India hoped that they would easily restrict Australia to within 100 runs, but this could not happen and Mitchell Starc played an inning of 26 runs in 112 balls. On the basis of this inning, Australia scored 100+ runs.
Starc is the only player to do so
Starc is the only player to face more than 100 balls in this entire match. In the first innings, no batsman from India had faced more than 100 balls, whereas in the second innings, Starc was the only player to do so. Starc, along with Hazlewood for the last wicket, added a crucial 25 runs in 110 balls and reduced the team’s trail to a great extent. Starc likes batting against India very much. This is the second time that Starc has faced 100+ balls against India. Earlier in the year 2013, he had faced India on 144 balls.
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