In the second unofficial Test played in Melbourne, India A’s first innings was reduced to 161 runs. All 7 batsmen in the team couldn’t even reach double figures. Dhruv Jurel got the highest score of 80 points. Devdutt Padikkal contributed 26 points. Nitish Reddy also added 16 points. For Australia, Michael Neser took 4 wickets and Beau Webster 3 wickets.
Indian batsman KL Rahul failed at the opening position. He was sacked by Scott Boland for 4 points. After failing in the first match against New Zealand, KL Rahul was sent to Australia to play for India A. The Indian team is trailing 0-1 in the 2 match series.
In the first innings, Australia scored 53 runs after losing 2 wickets to the stumps. Mukesh Kumar and Khalil Ahmed secured a 1-1 wicket.
Wicketkeeper batsman Dhruv Jurel played an innings of 80 runs.
The top 4 Indian batsmen could only score 8 runs, 2 were missing. India A, batting after losing the toss, got off to a poor start. The team had lost 5 wickets with a score of 64 runs. The team lost 2 wickets to the score of nil. Openers Abhinyu Easwaran and Sai Sudarshan were out for nil.
Here, Michael Nisar took wickets on the third and fourth balls of the first over. He got Abhimanyu Easwaran caught by Rochiody. Then, on the next ball, Sai Sudarshan was caught by wicketkeeper Pearson.
KL Rahul and captain Ruturaj Gaikwad also could not perform well. Both scored only 4 points each. KL Rahul was sent to the pavilion by Boland and Gaikwad was sent to the pavilion by Nasir.
Neser took 2 wickets in the first over. Australia Fast bowler Michael Neser took 2 wickets from two consecutive balls in the first over. He showed the way to the pavilion to Abhimanyu Easwaran, Sai Sudarshan and Ruturaj Gaikwad.
Michael Nasir sent 4 Indian batsmen to the pavilion.
Australia A won the match by 7 wickets. Australia A won this match by 7 wickets. Captain Nathan McSweeney played an unbeaten innings of 88 runs and reached the target of 225 runs after losing 3 wickets. Earlier, India A scored 312 runs in the second innings. Sai Sudarshan played an innings century of 103 runs, while Devdutt Padikkal scored 88 runs.
Australia A took a 1–0 series lead by winning the first match.
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Warner said – controversy over unofficial first Test ball removed
Former Australia opener David Warner has accused Cricket Australia of suppressing the controversy over the unofficial Test ball. He was also asked to clarify what happened if the umpires changed the ball in the first match between India A and Australia A.