-Vinay Kumar
In the Test match played between India and Australia in Nagpur, India defeated Australia (AUS vs IND Nagpur Test Match, 2023) by an innings and 132 runs. In this match, India scored 400 runs in their first innings in front of Australia’s first innings score of 177 runs. In this innings, Team India’s lower order batsman and basically lethal bowler Axar Patel batted brilliantly and scored an inning of 84 runs. With this innings, he added a new page in the history of Test cricket.
It is worth mentioning that Axar Patel came to bat at number 9 and while batting at number 9 for India, his name was registered in the elite club of scoring the most runs. There are names of great bowlers like Anil Kumble in this club.
Akshar Patel’s innings of 84 runs not only helped India reach the big score of 400 runs, Akshar Patel got included in the list of players who made big scores while batting at number 9.
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Let us know the names of the players included in this elite club and their individual scores-
104 runs: Jayant Yadav vs England (2016)
90 runs: Farokh Engineer vs New Zealand (1965)
88 runs: Anil Kumble vs South Africa (1996)
86 runs: Karsan Ghavri vs Australia Australia (1979)
84 runs: Axar Patel vs Australia (2023)
It is worth mentioning that in Australia’s first innings batting in Nagpur Test, Akshar Patel did not get any wicket in bowling, but gave 28 runs in 10 overs, scored 3 maiden overs. But, in the bowling of 3 overs of the second innings, he also took 1 wicket while giving 6 runs. On the other hand, talking about batting, Akshar and Ravindra Jadeja played an excellent 81 runs in the beginning of the second and third three of the match. After that, Akshar Patel also shared a 50-run partnership with Mohammed Shami. Akshar Patel scored this second half century in his Test career.