Jasprit Bumrah remained unbeaten on 55 in the practice game against Australia A.© Indian Cricket Team/Instagram
Jasprit Bumrah was the star with the bat for India in the pink ball practice match against Australia A at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday. The rapidly-bowler smashed his maiden initial-class half-century to aid India post a initial-innings total of 194 after becoming decreased to 123 for nine at 1 stage. After his batting blitz, Bumrah took to Twitter to share a image from the practice match and captioned it as “Try one new thing per day, they said” along with a laughing emoji.
Try 1 new issue per day, they mentioned. pic.twitter.com/Yozpazpoak
— Jasprit Bumrah (@Jaspritbumrah93) December 11, 2020
India captain Virat Kohli opted to sit out of the 3-day game in Sydney.
Stand-in skipper for the visitors Ajinkya Rahane won the toss and opted to bat.
India got off to a poor commence, losing Mayank Agarwal in the third more than. Prithvi Shaw and Shubman Gill then steadied the ship for the guests.
The duo place on 63 runs just before an in-swinging ball from Will Sutherland rattled Shaw’s stumps. He scored 40 runs off just 29 deliveries.
Gill fell seven runs brief of his half-century as he edged 1 to the wicket-keeper off Cameron Green.
The Indian middle-order failed to click as Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant and Wriddhiman Saha all fell cheaply.
Late fireworks from Mohammed Siraj (22) and unbeaten 55 from Bumrah took India to 194.
With the ball, Bumrah struck in his initial more than and sent Joe Burns packing for a duck.
Mohammed Shami and Navdeep Saini then ran via the Australia A batting line-up by choosing up 3 wickets apiece to bowl them out for 108.
Bumrah picked up two wickets. India will start the second day with a 86-run lead on Saturday.