Usman Khawaja’s Breathtaking Catch Makes Shreyas Iyer’s Solid Knock Watch Video
It was not the best of days on the cricket field for Team India. Even though Australia started the second day of the ongoing third Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy at the Holkar Cricket Stadium in Indore on 156/4 and were eventually bowled out for 193, the big takeaways of the game and the way it ended For Hua, it was the Kangaroos who were the happiest team.
For starters, Ravichandran Ashwin and Umesh Yadav took three wickets each, which meant that India had an 88-run lead after being bowled out for 109 in the first innings on the first day. The break point of this Test match, in the end, saw the home side bowled out for 163, which meant Australia were set a winning target of 76 runs.
Even though it was Australian off-spinner Nathan Lyon who was in his prime, ending the innings with figures of 8 for 64, Usman Khawaja took a brilliant catch in one of the key turning points of the game. Get rid of Shreyas Iyer. The wicket was crucial for the visiting side as Shreyas started taking on the opposition spinners and it seemed like the right-hander hit a couple of fours in one of Lyon’s overs and followed it up with a six. A boundary in the subsequent over from Matthew Kuhnmann.
Not much later, Steve Smith handed the ball to his left-arm pacer Mitchell Starc and that seemed to do the trick to expose Iyer’s vulnerability against the short ball. However, Starc dismissed him on a full length delivery in his very first over of the spell. The batsman flicked the ball straight onto the stumps but failed to keep the shot on the ground as Khawaja dived to his left to take an excellent catch.
The video of the Australian opener’s effort has surfaced on social media.
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While Iyer’s 26 off 27 balls was India’s second-best score in the second innings, Cheteshwar Pujara played the best innings by an Indian batsman, scoring 59 off 142 balls to ensure that the hosts reached the final total . , The spinners are getting a lot of help from the pitch, so India will still get a chance but Australia will get the advantage after the second day’s play is over.
