Vinay Kumar-
The first match of the 4 match series between India and Australia (IND vs AUS 1st Test Match, Nagpur 2023) is being played in Nagpur. Today is the second day of the match. The second day’s match will start at 9.30 am. India captain Rohit Sharma and all-rounder dangerous spin bowler Ravichandran Ashwin are present at the crease. Rohit is on 56 and Ashwin has played 5 balls, but he did not open the account till the end of the first day’s play. Today both the batsmen will try to play till late in the direction of scoring better for Team India.
Significantly, before the end of the first day’s play on Thursday, February 9, India were 77 runs at the loss of 1 wicket and before that Australia won the toss and came out to bat first in front of the dangerous bowling edge of the Indian bowlers in their first innings. Was reduced to 177 runs at the loss of 10 wickets in batting. In reply to Australia’s 177 runs, India scored 77 runs, including captain Rohit Sharma’s explosive 56 runs. These 56 runs from his bat included 9 fours and 1 magnificent six.
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Significantly, this is the 15th half-century of Rohit Sharma’s Test career. Remind you that Indian team captain Rohit Sharma made his Test debut in the first match of IND vs WI Test Series, 2013-14 played at Eden Gardens Stadium, Kolkata. That series was the Farewell series of Sachin Tendulkar’s career, i.e., the last Test series. Rohit Sharma was the number six batsman in the playing XI of that match. He created history in the very first innings of his debut match. In the first innings of the first match of his career, he faced 301 balls and scored 177 runs with the help of 23 fours and 1 six.
After that he did not look back and today he is the captain of the team. He has so far scored a total of 3193 runs in 78 innings of 46 Test matches, including 8 centuries and 15 half-centuries. In the first innings of the latest match being played in Nagpur, he scored the 15th half-century of his Test career. If he can last for 25 to 30 overs today, he might get his 9th century in his Test career with the bat.
Playing-XI of both countries in AUS vs IND Nagpur Test
India
Rohit Sharma Captain, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Shrikar Bharat (Bharat Wicket-keeper), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Akshar Patel, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj.
Australia
David Warner Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Matt Renshaw, Peter Handscomb, Alex Carey Wicket-keeper, Pat Cummins Captain , Nathan Lyon, Todd Murphy, Scott Boland.