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The last pair of Scott Boland and Nathan Lyon made a partnership of 55 runs. Both have played 110 balls.
In the fourth Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy being played in Melbourne, Australia has scored 228 runs for 9 wickets in the second innings. Australian team’s lead has reached 333 runs.
On Sunday, the fourth day of the Test, Indian bowlers had reduced Australia’s 9 wickets for 173 runs. Nath Lyon (41) and Scott Boland (10) made a partnership of 55 runs for the 10th wicket. Both are unbeaten. Apart from these, Marnus Labuschagne scored 70 runs and captain Pat Cummins played an inning of 41 runs.
Jasprit Bumrah took 4 more runs. Siraj took 3 wickets. The Indian team made mistakes in fielding. Yashasvi Jaiswal dropped 3 catches.
2 challenges before India on the 5th day
First- Dropping the last pair of Nathan Lyon and Boland as quickly as possible.
second- There is to be a game of 98 overs. To win, India will have to chase a big total of 300 plus.
Highlights of day four
- India was all out for 369 runs in the first innings, Nitish Reddy played an inning of 114 runs.
- Marnus Labuschagne scored 70 runs in Australia’s second innings. Cummins played an inning of 41 runs, Lyon remained unbeaten on 41.
- Nathan Lyon and Jasprit Bumrah scored 4 more runs. Siraj took 3 wickets. Bumrah has taken 200 wickets in Tests.
Scoreboard of India-Australia Melbourne Test
Melbourne Test third day- Nitish’s century, follow on saved
India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, Ravindra Jadeja, Nitish Reddy, Washington Sundar, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep.
Australia: Pat Cummins (captain), Usman Khawaja, Sam Konstans, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey (wk), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon and Scott Boland.
For every moment information about the fourth day’s play, go through the blog below…
Updates
08:05 AM29 December 2024
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Labuschagne said – We have achieved the targets we had set.
Marnus Labuschagne, who has completed his fifty for Australia, said-
The targets we set as a batting unit. Have achieved them. We are in a good position with a lead of 333 runs.
07:18 AM29 December 2024
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Fourth day’s play ends
07:17 AM29 December 2024
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Australia’s total lead is 333 runs, score at stumps is 228/9.
The fourth day’s play has ended. Till stumps, Australia scored 228 runs for 9 wickets in the second innings. Nathan Lyon returned unbeaten on 41 and Scott Boland on a personal score of 10 runs.
07:15 AM29 December 2024
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Lion-Boland’s Fifty Partnership
Nathan Lyon and Scott Boland have made a fifty partnership for the 10th wicket. The Australian team had lost the 9th wicket at the score of 173.
07:14 AM29 December 2024
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Australia crossed 200 runs in the second innings
The Australian team crossed the 200-run mark in the second innings. Nathan Lyon scored his 200th run on the 5th ball of Washington Sundar, who was bowling the 77th over.
06:33 AM29 December 2024
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Australia’s total lead crosses 300
The Australian team has taken a lead of more than 300 runs over India in the Melbourne Test. The team completed the lead of 300 runs by scoring 196th run in the 74th over. Australia had a lead of 105 runs in the first innings.
05:45 am29 December 2024
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Australia’s 9th wicket fell, Pat Cummins out
Australia lost the 9th wicket in the 65th over. Here Pat Cummins was out after scoring (41 runs). He was caught by Ravindra Jadeja at the hands of Rohit Sharma.
05:14 AM29 December 2024
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Australia’s 8th wicket fell, Starc runout
Australia lost the 8th wicket in the 59th over. Mitchell Starc was out after scoring 5 runs. Starc played Bumrah’s ball towards fine leg and completed the first run quickly. Rohit threw the ball to wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant. By then Starc had set out for the second run from the non-strike end. In such a situation, Pant ran out Starc by making a direct throw on non-strike.
05:03 AM29 December 2024
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Australia crossed 150 runs in the second innings
Australia has crossed the 150-run mark in the second innings. The team scored 150th run on the last ball of the 56th over.
05:02 AM29 December 2024
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Fifty partnership broken, Siraj out LBW to Labuschagne
Australia’s 7th wicket has fallen in the 56th over. Here Marnus Labuschagne was out after scoring 70 runs. He was LBW by Mohammad Siraj. This is Siraj’s third wicket in the innings. He also sent Steve Smith (13 runs) and Usman Khawaja (21 runs) to the pavilion.
05:00 AM29 December 2024
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Australia’s total lead crosses 250 runs
Australia has taken a lead of 250 runs over India. The team had a lead of 105 runs in the first innings. Then the team scored the 145th run in the second innings and took a total lead of 250 runs.
04:17 AM29 December 2024
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T-break: Indian pacers continue to dominate
Indian pacers dominated the second session of the fourth day. Till T-break, Australia has scored 135 runs for 6 wickets. The pair of Labuschagne and Cummins is unbeaten.
In this session of 24 overs, Australia lost 4 wickets in scoring 82 runs. Smith, Head, Marsh and Carey could not perform well.
04:14 AM29 December 2024
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Jaiswal dropped the third catch, giving life to Cummins
The third catch of the innings was dropped from Yashasvi Jaiswal in the 49th over. This time he dropped the catch of Pat Cummins.
Tried to stop Ravindra Jadeja’s fuller length ball, which went to Yashasvi Jaiswal standing at silly mid-off, but Jaiswal could not take the low-catch. He has missed 2 more catches.
03:47 AM29 December 2024
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Marnus Labuschagne’s Fifty
Marnus Labuschagne has completed his fifty in the 43rd over. He completed his fifty by taking one run on the first ball of Mohammad Siraj’s over.
Marnus Labuschagne completed the 23rd fifty of his Test career.
03:36 AM29 December 2024
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Labuschagne missed the catch from Yashasvi, Australia score 100 runs
Marnus Labuschagne got a lease of life in the 40th over. He dropped the catch from Yashasvi Jaiswal on the ball of Akash Deep at gully. Labuschagne took the team’s score to 100 runs with a single on the fourth ball of the same over.
03:15 AM29 December 2024
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Fourth wicket to Bumrah, Carry also out
The Australian team has lost the sixth wicket in the 36th over. Jasprit Bumrah bowled Alex Carey. Carey was out after scoring 2 runs.
03:09 AM29 December 2024
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Bumrah gets second wicket in the over.
Jasprit Bumrah, who was bowling the 34th over, took the second wicket in the over and the third wicket in the innings. He has sent Mitchell Marsh to the pavilion on zero. Marsh was caught by wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant.
03:06 AM29 December 2024
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Record: Bumrah’s 200 test wickets
03:01 AM29 December 2024
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Bumrah sent Travis Head to the pavilion, out for the sixth time
Australia lost the fourth wicket in the 34th over. Here Travis Head was out after scoring one run. He was caught by Jasprit Bumrah at the hands of Nitish Reddy. Bumrah has dismissed Head for the sixth time.
02:53 AM29 December 2024
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Siraj dismissed Steve Smith
The Australian team lost the third wicket in the 33rd over. Mohammad Siraj got Steve Smith caught by wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant on the third ball of the over.
01:35 AM29 December 2024
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Lunch break: Session named after Indian bowlers
The first session of the fourth day of the Melbourne Test was in the name of Indian bowlers. In this session, Australia lost 2 wickets in scoring 53 runs. While India added 11 runs for the last wicket. A total of 28.3 overs were bowled in this session. 3 wickets fell and 64 runs were scored.
01:30 am29 December 2024
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Australia’s score crosses 50 runs in the second innings
The Australian team has crossed the 50-run mark in the second innings. Steve Smith took the team score to 50 by taking 2 runs on the last ball of Akash Deep, who was bowling the 24th over.
01:14 AM29 December 2024
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Australia’s lead crosses 150 runs
The total lead of the Australian team has exceeded 150 runs. Labuschagne took the total lead to 152 runs by hitting a four off Bumrah in the 20th over.
01:08 AM29 December 2024
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Siraj bowled Khawaja, second blow to Australia
Australia got its second blow in the 19th over. Mohammad Siraj bowled Usman Khawaja on the 5th ball of the over. Khawaja was out after scoring 21 runs. Khawaja looked to flick a fuller length ball to the on side of the middle stump, but was beaten by the angle. And the ball scattered the stumps.
Siraj got the first wicket in the match.
01:02 AM29 December 2024
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Labuschagne survives umpire’s call
Marnus Labuschagne was saved from being dismissed in the 18th over due to the umpire’s call. Bumrah hit the third ball of the over on good length. The low-height ball hit Labuschagne’s pad. However, India’s appeal was rejected by the field umpire. In such a situation, the Indian captain took a review, in the replay the ball was seen hitting the upper part of the leg stump, but Labuschagne escaped the umpire’s call.
12:02 AM29 December 2024
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Bumrah bowled Kontas
Australia lost the first wicket on the third ball of the 7th over. Here Jasprit Bumrah bowled Sam Constas (8 runs).
Sam Constas was out after scoring 8 runs.
11:51 PM28 December 2024
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Khawaja’s catch was missed by Yashasvi
Usman Khawaja got a lease of life in the fourth over of the Australian innings. On the second ball of Akash Deep’s over, he was caught by Yashasvi Jaiswal in the gully.
Dropped catch from Yashasvi Jaiswal at leg gully.
11:42 PM28 December 2024
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Inning break- Kangaroos lead by 105 runs in the first innings
11:31 pm28 December 2024
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India all out on 369, Reddy scored 114 runs
India is all out for 369 runs in the first innings. Nathan Lyon got Nitish Reddy caught by Mitchell Starc on the third ball of the 119th over. Reddy was out after scoring 114 runs.
11:03 PM28 December 2024
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Reddy-Sundar saved India from follow-on on the third day
On the strength of Nitish Reddy’s century, India has made a comeback against Australia in the fourth match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. At one time he was in danger of playing follow on. At present, the team is behind by 116 runs. India scored 358 runs for 9 wickets in the first innings at stumps on the third day in Melbourne on Saturday. Reddy is unbeaten on 105 and Mohammed Siraj is unbeaten on 2 runs. Read full news
11:01 PM28 December 2024
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Melbourne Test- India in danger of follow-on on the second day
The Indian team is in danger of follow-on in the fourth test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. The team has lost 5 wickets in scoring 164 runs till stumps on Friday. Rishabh Pant returned unbeaten on 6 and Ravindra Jadeja on 4 runs. India has to score 111 more runs to save the follow-on. The follow-on mark of this match is 275 runs, because Australia has scored 474 runs in the first innings.
11:01 PM28 December 2024
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Australia’s score on the first day is 311/6; 3 wickets for Bumrah
Australia has scored 311 runs for 6 wickets against India on the first day of the fourth Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Till stumps on Thursday, Steve Smith returned unbeaten on 68 and captain Pat Cummins on 8 runs. Read full news