Befitting the contention among Australia and India, the most recent tussle for the Boundary Gavaskar Prize began in exciting design with wild energy swings and a DRS debate as speed bowlers from the two goes after completely ruled in positive circumstances at Optus Arena.
Toward the finish of a silly first day’s play, India had strikingly completed on top after substitute skipper Jasprit Bumrah tore through Australia’s top-request with fantastic crease bowling. He wrapped up with 4 for 17 from 10 overs.
He guaranteed debutant Nathan McSweeney for 10 in the third over prior to excusing Usman Khawaja and Steven Smith with successive balls in the seventh over to turn a quick first Test on its head.
In his subsequent red-ball match opening the batting, McSweeney confronted a rite of passage and at first made a decision about the length a long time before Bumrah acclimated to a more full length and caught him on the cushions. Smith’s shift back to his leaned toward No.4 didn’t begin well after he rearranged across his stumps and was plumb lbw by an insidious Bumrah conveyance that decked back a mile.
Australia plunged further when Travis Head was bowled by a saltine of a conveyance from debutant fast Harshit Rana, while Mitchell Bog and Marnus Labuschagne tumbled to Mohammed Siraj.
