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India captain Jasprit Bumrah led the attack with a brillaint spell yielding four wickets leaving wife Sanjana Ganesan impressed.
Sanjana Ganesan’s instagram post for Jasprit Bumrah
Jasprit Bumrah led from the front as he helped India fight back against Australia on the first day of the opening Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy at the Optus Stadium in Perth on Friday.
After the end of the day’s play, Sanjana Ganesan took to social media to celebrate his husband’s good performance by praising Bumrah. She decided to do it in a unique way.
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As for the game, stand-in captain Bumrah rose to the occasion, leading his team back from the brink by exploiting the seam-friendly conditions to register 4/17 to leave Australia rattled.
Bumrah earlier won the toss and boldly elected to bat but India ended up being bowled out for just 150 as Tea was called. It was debutant Nitish Reddy’s gutsy 41 and Rishabh Pant’s 37, including an unbelievable sixer, that got India to 150 in 49.4 overs with Josh Hazlewood (4/29), Mitchell Starc (2/14 in 11 overs), Pat Cummins (2/67 in 15.4 overs) and Mitchell Marsh (2/12 in 5 overs) sharing the spoils.
In the third session, Bumrah ended Nathan McSweeney’s 10-ball debut by trapping the opener leg before wicket. He then returned two overs later to claim opener Usman Khawaja (8) and Steve Smith for nought off successive balls. Khawaja was caught by Virat Kohli at second slip and then Smith was trapped lbw.
Left-hander Travis Head thwarted Bumrah’s hopes of a hit trick but on 11 he played down the wrong line and was bowled off stump to give debutant fast bowler Harshit Rana his maiden test wicket.
Mitchell Marsh fell to a catch by KL Rahul at third slip off Siraj to leave Australia in a similar predicament to India in the morning when it won the toss and batted.
Labuschagne was dropped off the second ball when Kohli spilled a simple catch at second slip and then struggled to put bat to ball and made two runs off 52 balls before Siraj trapped him in front.
As the shadows lengthened Bumrah returned for his second spell and immediately removed his counterpart Cummins caught behind by wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant.
(With inputs from Agencies)
- Location :
Perth
