Ind vs Aus, 1st Test: Pat Cummins bowls a jaffa to send Rohit's off stump cartwheeling - Watch
Rohit Sharma
At the start of the third session on day two of the first test against Australia, India were sitting pretty with a lead of 52 runs and skipper Rohit Sharma batting at 120, alongside Ravindra Jadeja. The pairhad added 61 runs by then and we set for more with Australialooking wary of the partnership.
The last session started with the visitors taking the new ball to start off the things and it was Rohit's visiting counterpart Patrick Cummins who decided to have a go with the ball.
The over started with a no-ball as Cummins overstepped but then got back in his groove quickly to produce an edge of the third ball of the over. But alas, Steve Smith at slip had a day to forget as he dropped the chance, albeit a tad difficult one. Rohit, who was batting at 120 at the time, took a couple of the dropped chance.
Patrick Cummins, however, had a different plan as he clean-bowled Rohit the very next ball with an absolute peach off a delivery. Have a look at the dismissal:
Cummins sent down a full and straight ball on the middle-off line and the new cherry moved everso slightly to go past Rohit's defence and sent his off stump rolling.
Australia looked to peg India back with the wicket of Srikar Bharat, who fellshortly after Rohit and India were 240/7. Axar Patel, however, stood by Ravindra Jadeja as both southpaws completed their fifties to take India to 321/7 at the end of day's play with the total lead of 144 runs.
Earlier, Todd Murphy, the 22-year-old debutant offie from Australia took three more wickets after dismissing KL Rahul on Day 1. Murphy eventually completed his five-wicket haul with the wicket of Bharat. Apart from that, he took wicketsof Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli and nightwatchman Ravichandran Ashwin.
Suryakumar Yadav, the debutant from India's side, could not mirror his white-ball form in the test and was dismissed for eight runs off 20 balls by Nathan Lyon off a classic off-spinner's delivery.
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