Ajinkya Rahane turns the Disaster Stricken team into an Opportunity

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The match took an interesting turn after tea when India was chasing a target of 328 for victory on the final day of the fourth and final Test match against Australia in Brisbane.

By then 80 overs were over and India’s score was 228 for three wickets. Cheteshwar Pujara was facing 56 from 210 balls and Rishabh Pant was scoring 34 runs. There was a gap of 100 runs between India and victory.

Twenty overs game was still remaining in the match. It seemed that India can now play the match a little faster to name itself. This test match started to look like ODI cricket. Then Australia captain Tim Paine took the second new ball as per the rules and gave the fast bowler to Pat Cummins.

Cummins lbw Cheteshwar Pujara on the second ball and increased the beating of the Indian team’s dressing room. After that, Cummins also caught a new batsman Mayank Agarwal, caught by Matthew Wade and gave India a blow.

Mayank Agarwal could score only nine runs. Washington Sundar, playing his first Test match in such a difficult situation, suddenly changed the course of the match by hitting a six and then a four in one over for Cummins.

After that Rishabh Pant changed the match in T20 by putting two fours in Nathan Lyon’s over. India also got four-run byes in the same over. Now India’s score was 304 runs after losing five wickets.

By now the match had caught India and the Australian players had bowed, but when India was ten runs away from victory, Nathan Lyon bowled Washington Sundar. Sundar scored 22 runs off only 29 balls.

After this, Shardul Thakur also became a victim of Hazelwood by scoring two runs. Finally, Rishabh Pant hit a four off Hazelwood to give India a three-wicket win and gave the selected Indians in the field the opportunity to wave the tricolor gracefully at the same Gabba where Australia’s victory over the last 70 years was hoisted. having had.

Earlier in the year 1951, the West Indies defeated Australia and achieved the target of 236 runs for victory. Well, this is only the third victory in India’s Test cricket chasing a target of 300 or more runs.

Earlier in the year 1976, at the Port of Spain, in the fourth innings against the West Indies, they won 406 for four in the fourth innings by four wickets. After this, India won by six wickets in the first Test match played against England in Chennai in 2008, scoring 387 runs for four wickets in the fourth innings.

Who is the hero of the dramatic victory in Brisbane? Shubman Gill scored 91 runs, Pujara scored 56 runs and Rishabh Pant remained unbeaten on 89 runs. Rishabh Pant was also elected Man of the Match, who called his innings the best innings of his life. But Washington Sundar’s fiery 22-run innings was also very important in turning the match towards India in the true sense.

With this, India won the four-Test series 2-1 and retained their possession of the Gavaskar-Border Trophy for the second time in a row.

Former captain Sunil Gavaskar also did not get overwhelmed about the Indian team and in a conversation with a sports channel, he admitted that the struggle of this team will be remembered for years. He said that he himself has represented the team in Australia and knows how challenging it is to play there.

He also said that he had already predicted the Indian team’s 2–1 win. After this great success, team coach Ravi Shastri said that he has become accustomed to seeing everything like this.

He credited the victory to the combative character of the new players. Ravi Shastri also openly praised Rishabh Pant, Washington Sundar, and Shardul Thakur. Ravi Shastri also said that this series will be remembered for a long time. He said that whoever got the chance to play in place of injured players, performed with his full potential as soon as he stepped inside the field.

This series was different from the test series played before in many ways. Regular captain Virat Kohli returned to India after a historic and embarrassing defeat in Adelaide. Ajinkya Rahane got the captaincy under difficult circumstances. One player after another went on getting injured.

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