Australia defeated India by 9 wickets in third test match and made their place in the final of the ICC World Test Championship. With this victory, he also made a comeback in the series. For your information, let us tell you that India is still ahead 2-1 after winning the first two Tests.
Indian first innings-
In the first innings, Indian team captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and decided to bat first. Team India, who came out to bat, was reduced to just 109 runs. Captain Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill added 27 runs for the first wicket. Wickets kept falling as soon as captain Rohit Sharma was dismissed for a personal score of 12 runs, Shubman Gill 21 runs, Kohli 22 runs, For the last wicket, Umesh Yadav took India past 100 runs by playing innings of 17 runs, thus the Indian innings ended on 109 runs. Bharat had 17 runs and Akshar Patel played innings of 12 runs to put India in a slightly better position.
Australia’s first innings-
The pair of Usman Khawaja and Marnus Labuschagne of Australia gave Australia an excellent start in the first innings with a strong partnership of 96 runs. The entire Australian team scored 197 runs and took the lead of 88 runs. From India, Ravindra Jadeja took 4 wickets and Ashwin and Umesh Yadav took three wickets each.
Indian second innings-
Even in the second innings, India’s batsmen could not score many runs, only Cheteshwar Pujara got out by scoring 59 runs, Shreyas Iyer by 26 runs, and Virat Kohli and Ashwin by 13-13 runs. India’s second innings ended with just 163 runs. In this way, India had given Australia a total target of 76 runs. All the Indian batsmen collapsed in front of Australia’s Nathan Lyon’s spin. Nathan took 8 wickets.
Australia’s second-innings-
Australia’s Marnish Labushen and Travis Head batted brilliantly to quickly achieve the target of 76 runs given by India with 9 wickets in hand. They beat India by 9 wickets in the third Test match.
In the third Test match of the Border Gavaskar Trophy 2023 being held in the Indore city of Madhya Pradesh, Australia won by 9 wickets and made their place in the final of the World Test Championship. Australia is the first team that has reached the final of the World Test Championship, India will now have to win the fourth Test match at any cost to reach the World Test Championship. The fourth and final Test match between India and Australia will be held in the Ahmedabad city of Gujarat.
Australia win the Third Test by 9 wickets. #TeamIndia 🇮🇳 will aim to bounce back in the fourth and final #INDvAUS Test at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad 👍🏻👍🏻
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— BCCI (@BCCI) March 3, 2023
Indian Captain Rohit Sharma speaks at the presentation ceremony –
“When you are playing on challenging pitches you have to bowl. We allowed their bowlers to bowl in one spot. We had to try and be brave, which I think we were not, One odd game can happen like that where things don’t come together, but even then you need players to come together and chip in. We wanted a few guys to stand up but it didn’t happen. We were slightly behind and we did not apply ourselves the way we would have liked to, When you lose a Test match, there are a lot of things that didn’t go our way. To start with, we didn’t bat well in the first innings. We understand how important it is to put runs on the board in the first innings.”
“And obviously when they got an 80-90 run lead, we needed to put in a big performance with the bat but we couldn’t do that. Honestly, we haven’t thought about it yet. We just finished this Test now so we need to regroup and try. We need to understand that we need to improve as a team.”
Australia Captain Steve Smith said –
“Our bowlers did really well, especially Kuhnemann. All our bowlers contributed. With the bat, Usman was really good in the first innings. We had some good partnerships, India bowled really well in the back end, and we had a bit of a collapse. We had to toil hard yesterday, Pujara played a good knock, but all our bowlers did really well. It was a complete performance in the end. We are thinking of Patty back home, our thoughts are with him. But I really enjoyed this week. I like captaining this part of the world. I think I understand a lot of the intricacies.”
“It’s a place that I really enjoy and I think I did a reasonable job this week. The approach will be much the same. We have to see what the conditions are like. It’s good to be in the WTC final but it’s just about playing good cricket.”