Team India Lose By 184 Runs in Melbourne Against Australia

• By Thetripurapost Sports Desk, Melbourne
• Dec 30, 2024
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Team India, which toured Australia, had to face defeat in the Melbourne Test by 184 runs due to poor batting. On the fifth and last day of the match, Australia had set a huge target of 340 runs for India to win. The Indian team had to struggle to draw this Test, but it collapsed at 155 runs. Except Yashasvi Jaiswal (84), no batsman could score runs in the second innings here. Only two batsmen of India were able to touch the double digit mark here.

Team India is now trailing 1-2 in the 5 Test series and has also missed a hat-trick of series wins in Australia for the first time. Now it will have a chance to avoid defeat in the series by winning the Sydney Test. Australia scored 474 runs in the first innings of the match. After this, India was able to score 369 runs in its first innings. Nitish Kumar Reddy (114) scored a century from India's side. After this, Australia finished their second innings at 234 runs, giving India a target of 340 runs. But the Indian team lost all its wickets before adding 155 runs.

After losing 3 wickets in the first session on the 5th and last day of the match, India was in danger of losing. But in the second session of the day, Rishabh Pant and Yashasvi Jaiswal raised the confidence of handling the innings and taking the match towards a draw. Both the batsmen did not give Australia any chance to take wickets in the entire session.

But in the third and final session of the day, Rishabh Pant lost his wicket by playing a bad shot on Travis Head's ball and from here Australia found their way to victory. The Kangaroos won the match by taking all the remaining 7 wickets before the end of the final session.

In this innings, apart from Jaiswal and Pant, no batsman from India could touch the double digit mark. Pat Cummins and Scott Boland took 3-3 wickets, while Nathan Lyon took 2 wickets. Mitchell Starc and Travis Head also took 1-1 important wickets.