India may have improved the show with the bat in the second inning, but their performance in the first inning raised some questions. After Captain Ajinkya Rahane won the toss and opted to hit, the Indians were eliminated by 194. In fact, their top and middle order was destroyed by the Australian A bowlers, reducing the Indians to 123/9 before of Jasprit Bumrah scoring the first First Class title. fifty of his career to give his team a somewhat respectable total.
Regarding their top-order performance, in which the front-line hitter posted low scores: Mayank Agarwal 2, Hanuma Vihari 15, Rahane 4, and Rishabh Pant 5, despite Prithvi Shaw and Shubman Gill reaching 40, Former Australian player Brad Hogg expressed concern over India’s hitting.
“The Indian higher order needs to know where its stump is, learn to let the ball out of a good length and not chase the ball away from the stump,” Hogg tweeted.
Making an exception to the tweet, former India opening batsman Wasim Jaffer gave an epic response. With Australia struggling to find their first order with injuries to David Warner, Marcus Harris and Will Pucovski, Jaffer pointed to how the hosts are facing batting order problems. “Australia needs to know who their main request is,” Jaffer wrote, citing Hogg’s tweet.
In response to the Indians’ 194, Australia A was eliminated by 108 with pacers Mohammed Shami and Navdeep Saini picking up three wickets, while Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj claimed two and a scalp respectively. He gave the Indians an 86 lead in the first inning, which the visiting team managed to increase after a good hitting performance in the second inning. Half a century of Gill, Agarwal and Vihari brought the score to 222/3 at tea, a 303 run lead at tea on day 2.
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