India beat Australia by an innings and 132 runs in the first Test match of ‘Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test Series, 2023’ played in Nagpur. Team India’s bowlers performed brilliantly in this match. The bowlers bundled out Australia for just 91 runs in the second innings to seal a massive victory by an innings and 132 runs.
Significantly, Australia won the toss and elected to bat first in this match. In which Australia scored 177 runs in the first innings. In response to that, the Indian team scored 400 runs in their first innings. Indian batsmen performed brilliantly in Nagpur against. India had taken a lead of 223 runs over Australia. Then, Australia were bowled out for just 91 runs on the third day of the match.
In this match, India’s deadly fast bowler and number 10 batsman Mohammad Shami also showed the power of the bat in India’s first innings batting. Mohammed Shami scored an excellent 37 runs in 47 balls with the help of 2 fours and 3 sixes. In this match, the maximum number of sixes came out of the bat of Mohammad Shami in India’s first innings batting. Apart from Shami, Team India captain Rohit Sharma Captain Team India’s wonderful century innings (120 runs in 212 balls) included 2 sixes.
Significantly, in this match (Border Gavaskar Trophy Test Series AUS vs IND 1st Test Match Nagpur, 2023) Mohammed Shami made a big record by hitting 3 sixes.
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The history of International Test cricket tells that in the case of hitting sixes in Test matches, Mohammad Shami has also defeated Virat Kohli. Records show that Virat Kohli, the world’s greatest batsman has hit 24 sixes in Test cricket so far, while lower order Indian fast bowler Mohammed Shami has hit 25 sixes. Not only this, Shami also broke the record of Test sixes of former Team India great Rahul Dravid and current Test player Cheteshwar Pujara and set a new example.
Significantly, Rahul Dravid had hit a total of 21 sixes during his international Test career. Cheteshwar Pujara has only 15 sixes to his name so far.
Mohammed Shami also took 3 wickets in both the innings of this match.
Vinay Kumar