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India Floor Oz in Boxing Day Test, Grab 2-1 Lead 18 Monday, December 31, 2018 Sports NEW YEAR GIFT to THE NAtion All batsmen should be scared of lethal Bumrah: Kohli AFP MELBOURNE INDIAN skipper Virat Kohli hailed “outstanding” pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah on Sunday and declared batsmen around the world should be scared of the young hotshot fast bowler. The 25-year-old right-arm quick with an unorthodox rigid action took 9-86 in the Mel- bourne Test against Australia, Virat Kohli of India holds a match stump after winning the Boxing Day Test match against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in Melbourne on Sunday. (Right) An including a career-best 6-33 in excited Indian captain Kohli gestures after the victory. (AFP) the first innings. In his first year of Test crick- et he has claimed three five- wicket hauls overseas - in South Africa, England and now Aus- India floor Oz in Boxing tralia, where his exploits were “Bumrah looks at a pitch India’s paceman Jasprit Bumrah bowls during the third cricket and he doesn’t think it’s a Test match against Australia in hard toil, he thinks wick- Melbourne. (AFP) ets, he thinks how can I Day Test, grab 2-1 lead get a breakthrough for the one of the best batsmen of his team” generation and even he said he wouldn’t want to be facing Bumrah, Sharma share remaining two wickets and set up win in 27 balls on the fifth day Bumrah on surfaces like the central to India’s 137-run win. recent Perth Test, where the AFP a very capable all-rounder, widely believed that they will “Credit has to go to the cracked pitch caused variable MELBOURNE SCOREBOARD tipped by some as a future Aus- be reintegrated quickly into bowlers. I think they have been bounce and numerous blows to INDIA (1ST INNINGS): 443-7 DECL N. Lyon c Pant b Sharma 7 tralia captain, had kept his side the team. outstanding, especially Jasprit. the body. A clinical and “obsessed” India AUSTRALIA (1ST INNINGS): 151 J. Hazlewood not out 0 in the hunt with an impressive “India batted superbly in The way he bowled in this Test “In Test cricket, especially INDIA (2ND INNINGS): 106-8 DECL Extras (lb6, b2, w2) 10 mopped up Australia’s tail in AUSTRALIA (2ND INNINGS, OVERNIGHT 258-8): Total (all out, 89.3 overs) 261 61 not out on Saturday. the first innings and from that match was outstanding,” said on a pitch like Perth, I wouldn’t 27 balls to win the third Test in M. Harris c Agarwal b Jadeja 13 Fall of wickets: 1-6 (Finch), 2-33 (Harris), 3-63 He added just two runs and moment we were behind the Kohli after win gave India a 2-1 want to face him to be honest Melbourne on Sunday by 137 A. Finch c Kohli b Bumrah 3 (Khawaja), 4-114 (S. Marsh), 5-135 (M. Marsh), 6-157 was out for a Test-best 63 after game,” admitted Australian lead in the four-Test series. because once he is on a roll, he runs and take an unassailable U. Khawaja lbw b Shami 33 (Head), 7-176 (Paine), 8-215 (Starc), 9-261 taking a career-best 6-27 with skipper Tim Paine. “The mindset he has at the can really crank it up.” S. Marsh lbw b Bumrah 44 (Cummins), 10-261 (Lyon) 2-1 lead into the final clash at T. Head b Sharma 34 Bowling: Bumrah 19-3-53-3, Sharma 14.3-1-40-2, the ball to be one of the few “In this game we were no moment is what separates him It wasn’t just the bowlers Sydney. M. Marsh c Kohli b Jadeja 10 Jadeja 32-6-82-3, Shami 21-2-71-2, Vihari 3-1-7-0. successes for Australia. Lyon doubt a little bit disappoint- from anyone else in the world that were impeccable for India The home team resumed at T. Paine c Pant b Jadeja 26 Toss: India added one to his overnight to- ing, but that’s going to hap- right now. in Melbourne. The batsmen, 258 for eight after the morning P. Cummins c Pujara b Bumrah 63 Result: India won by 137 runs tal. pen from time to time and just “He looks at a pitch and he led by Kohli and Cheteshwar session was wiped out by rain M. Starc b Shami 18 Series: India lead 2-1 Bumrah finished withhave to make sure we are im- doesn’t think it’s a hard toil, he Pujara, were also top class. in their unlikely quest to hunt 3-53, following his six-wicket proving.” thinks wickets, he thinks how Kohli said he was most down a huge 399, which would India, the world’s top- this was very possible because first innings haul, and left-arm In contrast, India were dis- can I get a breakthrough for the proud of the way the team have been a record fourth-in- ranked nation, are now zero- of the talent we have in the spinner Ravindra Jadeja 3-82. ciplined with rock solid num- team. bounced back after losing in nings chase at the Melbourne ing in on a first-ever series win side and the mindset we have Cummins aside, no other ber three Cheteshwar Pujara “He’s as strong-headed as Perth. Cricket Ground. Down Under in Sydney later been carrying for the last 12 Australian passed 50 in Mel- scoring another century and I’ve seen anyone in the past and “I think that takes more No team before had made this week, where they need months,” Kohli said. bourne, exposing their lack of Kohli showing restraint and that’s the key to his success that mentally out of you than start- more than 332 to win, and that only a draw to smash the long- “If you want to win a series batting depth and reinforcing composure, while debutant I’ve seen in the last 12 months, ing a series well, so I think that’s was in 1928 by England. time jinx. away from home, it has to be how much they are missing the Mayank Agarwal impressed at the way he has matured as a why this victory is more special But they fell well short of It is a feat that skipper Vi- an obsession, so hats off to the banned Steve Smith and David the top of the order with 76 in Test cricketer.” for the bowlers,” he said. the target, with Jasprit Bum- rat Kohli has so publicly cov- whole team for sticking togeth- Warner. his first Test knock. He added that the way “They’ve been so tired and rah taking the key wicket of eted since his men arrived in er, believing in themselves and The bedrock for India’s vic- Bumrah was bowling so soon in bowled so many overs. Even dogged Pat Cummins and Is- Australia last month. being obsessed about getting ‘Bit disappointing’ tory was their 443 for seven his Test career “is a very scary in this game they had to put in hant Sharma snaring Nathan results.” The pair’s year-long sus- declared in the first innings, sign for batsmen around the more effort because of the na- Lyon to secure the emphatic ‘Always believed’ Tailender Cummins, who pensions for ball-tampering built on the back of Pujara’s world”. ture of the pitch. So outstand- win. “We always believed that is rapidly proving himself to run out in late March and it is 106 and Kohli’s 82. Kohli is widely seen as ing, hats off to them.” Kiwis crush Lanka to post record series victory We’re playing against AFP for 22 before Boult came back world’s best pace: Paine CHRISTCHURCH to finish the innings, trapping SCOREBOARD Dushmantha Chameera in his NEW ZEALAND (1ST INNINGS): .................... 178 IANS perienced batting line-up, you NEW Zealand completed second over for three. SRI LANKA (1ST INNINGS): .......................... 104 MELBOURNE are bound to have an innings their demolition of Sri Lanka Wagner, who had strug- NEW ZEALAND (2ND INNINGS): .......585-4 DECL like we did in the first innings. SRI LANKA (2ND INNINGS, OVERNIGHT 231-6): on day five of the second Test gled for wickets earlier in the D. Gunathilaka c Watling b Southee ......................4 AFTER suffering a 137-run de- We are going to learn from it,” in Christchurch on Sunday, series, found the Christchurch D. Karunaratne c Watling b Boult ..........................0 feat against India in the third he added. needing only 14 balls to take conditions to his liking and D. Chandimal c Nicholls b Wagner ..................... 56 cricket Test here on Sunday, “The guys are working re- the last three wickets for a co- took four for 48. K. Mendis c sub (Henry) b Wagner .................... 67 Australia skipper Tim Paine ally hard and we have a huge A. Mathews retired hurt ...................................... 22 lossal 423-run victory. Boult finished with three R. Silva c Watling b Wagner ................................ 18 praised the Indian pacers say- challenge ahead of us in Syd- The overwhelming victory for 77. N. Dickwella b Southee ...................................... 19 ing the current team has the ney. There is always little dis- gave New Zealand the series Sri Lanka held a slight edge D. Perera c Williamson b Wagner ........................ 22 best pace attack in the world. cussions around the batting 1-0 after the first Test in Wel- on day one of the second Test S. Lakmal b Boult ............................................... 18 Paine also rued Australia’s order.
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