Border- Gavaskar Trophy 1st Test Match ( 4th and Last Innings)

In the 2nd Innings of Indian team which is effectively the 4^th Innings of this match, India was required to target 441 runs to won the 1^st test match against Australia in the Border Gavaskar Trophy. This totally was quite hard to target as the pitch is assisting to both spin and pace bowlers and it’s a very big total to chase. India have their backs towards the walls to chase this target and draw is not a possibility as still many over’s left in the game.

India started with M Vijay and K L Rahul and Aussies with M Stark and Nathan L. India started poorly and lost both its openers at the team score of only 16 runs in 5.3 over’s. India kept losing wickets at regular intervals in the game and was bowled out for only 107 runs in 33.5 over’s at the loss of all 10 wickets and with top scores by C Pujara who made 31 runs in 58 balls with 2 fours and A Rahane who made18 runs in 21 balls with 3 fours. For Australia Spinner S O Kefee took 6 wickets by conceding only 35 runs in his 15 over’s and other spinner Nathan L took remaining 4 wickets by only conceding 53 runs in his 14.5 over’s.

The Bottom Line of the Match is Australia won the match by 333 runs and are now 1-0 ahead in this 4 Match Test series with 3 more games still to play. S O Kefee was the man of the match for his Great spin bowling.

Writers Analysis: Australia beat India by a very big margin of 333 runs to take lead of 1-0 in the series and it is always good for a visiting team to have a early lead in the series which can surely help Australia in winning the Test series here in India after many years. The main reason for Australia’s win here is that Australia came here fully prepared and have applied their plans very well.