Mukesh Kumar took 6 wickets in the match against Australia A.
Indian A team is currently on the tour of Australia in which Team India under the captaincy of Ruturaj Gaikwad is playing the first match of the 2-match unofficial test match series against Australia A team in Mackay. While the first day of the match was almost in favor of the host Australia A team, in the second day of play, Team India managed to make a comeback and the biggest reason for this is fast bowler Mukesh Kumar, who defeated Australia A team in the first innings by 195 runs. Played an important role in tying up the score due to which they were not able to take much lead in the first innings. In the first day’s play, the Indian A team was limited to 107 runs in its first innings.
Mukesh Kumar took 6 wickets while Prasidh Krishna also took 3 wickets.
In this match, Indian A team came to bat first after losing the toss against Australia A team, but the entire team was limited to scoring only 107 runs. After this, the Indian bowlers also left no stone unturned to wrap up the host team’s first innings quickly. The biggest role in this was played by fast bowler Mukesh Kumar, who had made his debut in international cricket, who bowled 18.4 overs and gave only 46 runs and showed the way to the pavilion to 6 Australian team players. Apart from Mukesh, Prasidh Krishna, who was part of Team India’s squad in the 5-match Test series against Australia starting from November 22, also managed to take 3 wickets, while Nitish Reddy took one wicket.
Ruturaj Gaikwad disappointed in the second innings also
Due to the excellent performance of Team India’s fast bowlers, Australia A team was able to take a lead of 88 runs in the first innings. In the second innings, a better start was expected from the opening batsmen of the Indian team, but captain Ruturaj Gaikwad, who returned to the pavilion on a golden duck in the first innings, was out after scoring only 5 runs in the second innings also. Apart from this, Abhimanyu Easwaran was run out after scoring 12 runs. Till the time of writing the news, Team India had scored 64 runs at the loss of 2 wickets.
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