IND-A vs AUS-A: The Indian team will tour Australia this month. Before this, unofficial test matches are being played between India A and Australia A. Where India A team has suffered a big setback at the very beginning of the tour. Team India has been defeated by the same team Australia in the first unofficial test match. Australia A won this match on the fourth day of the game and defeated India A by 7 wickets. The captaincy of India A is in the hands of Ruturaj Gaikwad. Some players of India A have also been selected in Team India’s squad for the Test series against Australia starting from November 22.
How was the match?
Talking about this match played between the two teams, in this match Australia A captain Nathan McSweeney won the toss and decided to bowl. After this, India A team came out to bat first. Where they were all out for just 107 runs. Where Devdutt Padikkal played the highest innings of 36 runs for India. After all out India A, Australia A team came out to bat and they too could not do anything special. His team was all out after scoring 195 runs. Mukesh Kumar bowled brilliantly for India A in this innings and took 6 wickets for 46 runs in 18.4 overs. Apart from this, Prasidh Krishna also took three wickets in this innings.
Amazing work of Sai Sudarshan and Devdutt Padikkal
Now Team India again came out to bat in its second innings, but openers Ruturaj Gaikwad and Abhimanyu Easwaran could not do anything special and Team India lost two wickets at the score of 30 runs. After this, Sai Sudarshan and Devdutt Padikkal took over the innings of Team India and there was a partnership of 196 runs for the fourth wicket between the two batsmen. Due to which India A team could reach a very good position.
However, after the dismissal of these two, no other player handled the innings and India A team was all out for 312 runs. Sai Sudarshan played an inning of 103 runs in this match and Devdutt Padikkal scored 88 runs. He gave Australia A a target of 225 runs to win. Which Australia A chased by losing only 3 wickets.
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