AUS-A vs IND-A: India A skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad's lean patch in Australia continued on Friday as he got out after scoring just five runs during the second innings of the first unofficial Test against Australia A. He got out for a first-ball duck during the first innings but not much changed during the second innings as well.

He had a flying start as he smashed a four during the third over. But while trying to score quick runs, he played a cover drive and mistimed it as Fergus O'Neill, who was standing at slips took a stunning catch.

The Indian batting lineup suffered another blow when Abhimanyu Easwaran was also dismissed by a runout, and the Men in Blue soon suffered a batting collapse during the ninth over.

But Sai Sudharsan and Devdutt Padikkal helped the team bounce back and handed the team a lead with some brilliant batting.

India A was skittled out for 107 runs during the first innings as the captain and the other batters failed to fire with the bat.

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India A's star fast bowler Mukesh Kumar rattled Australia A's batting lineup on the second day of the unofficial Test and thus played a huge role in helping the team bundle them out for 195 runs. Continuing his momentum from the first day, where the hosts had lost four wickets, and went on to register figures of 6/46.

Mukesh ran riot through Australia A's middle order, taking wickets at an important juncture. He took the wickets of batters like Beau Webster (33), Campbell Kellaway (37), Josh Phillippe and Brendan Doggett. Todd Murphy was his last victim. Prasidh Krishna assisted Mukesh by taking three wickets, whereas Nitish Kumar Reddy took one.

 


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