After being bundled out for 109 of their first innings of the ongoing 3rd Test at Indore’s Holkar Stadium, India returned to bowl and limited Australia to 197 on Day 2 of the event.
Resuming their play on Thursday (March 2), Australia controlled to protected handiest 88 runs lead over India. It used to be Ravindra Jadeja who shined with the ball for the hosts and collected 4 wickets. Ravichandran Ashwin and Umesh Yadav additionally grabbed 3 scalps each and every for their staff. However, Ashwin used to be purchased very late into the attack by means of Rohit Sharma.
At the get started of Day 2, Rohit went with Mohammed Siraj and Ravindra Jadeja and later changed Siraj with Axar Patel., whilst Ashwin used to be stored ready by means of the Indian skipper. The Tamil Nadu off-spinner used to be given the ball just a few mins sooner than the beverages wreck. Soon after coming into the attack, he broke the dangerous-looking partnership of Peter Handscomb and Cameron Green in his very subsequent over.
India legend Sunil Gavaskar didn’t appear to love Rohit’s determination and wondered why a high quality bowler like Ashwin used to be presented so late. He additionally criticised the match-up ploy of Rohit.
“I don’t understand this too much focus on the match-up thing. Because there were two right-handers in the crease, Ashwin wasn’t brought on till the last over before the drinks break. Because of those match-ups, the two left-armers bowled, then what happened? Who gets the breakthrough? Ravichandran Ashwin. He gets the wicket of Handscomb. He is a top player, he is going to get wickets, doesn’t matter if it’s a right-hander or a left-hander. He is a great bowler. Ashwin has 450-plus wickets and he should have been given the ball a lot earlier,” Gavaskar stated on Star Sports in the post-lunch consultation,” stated Gavaskar on Star Sports.
Notably, Ashwin is the second-highest wicket-taker for India in the ongoing BGT 2023 and is these days the international’s no. 1 ranked Test bowler.