The primary day of the third Take a look at is a close to washout as Australia and India are left annoyed by rain in Brisbane.
India’s bowlers had been left annoyed and wicketless as rain worn out a lot of the opening day’s play within the third Take a look at towards Australia in Brisbane on Saturday.
Australia had been 28-0 when play was deserted, with Usman Khawaja unbeaten on 19 and Nathan McSweeney on 4 after dealing with solely 13.2 overs at a rain-sodden Gabba.
India captain Rohit Sharma gained the toss and elected to area first however his hope of early wickets proved forlorn, with rain halting play within the sixth over for about half-hour and dashing his tempo bowlers’ hopes of discovering their rhythm.
The rain returned to convey an early lunch and persevered till play was deserted late within the afternoon, short-changing a crowd of 30,145.
The Gabba pitch had a inexperienced tinge on what had been a steamy, overcast morning, promising a stiff examination for Australia’s prime order, however the ball in the end did little off the spongy pitch.
Barring a probing, opening burst by Bumrah, who repeatedly beat Khawaja’s bat, the Indian pacers had been culpable of bowling too brief.
Khawaja capitalised, smashing Mohammed Siraj to the fence with a few sweetly struck pull pictures however the climate denied a wholesome crowd extra motion.
With the five-Take a look at sequence poised at 1-1, India made two adjustments to the aspect that misplaced by 10 wickets within the day-night Take a look at in Adelaide — Ravindra Jadeja changing spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and Akash Deep coming in for struggling paceman Harshit Rana.
Australia made just one change, with fast Josh Hazlewood changing Scott Boland after recovering from a aspect harm.
Rohit, whose poor kind with the bat has heaped strain on his captaincy, will proceed to bat at quantity six, with KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal retained because the opening mixture.
“There’s a whole lot of grass and it appears just a little gentle as properly so we need to attempt to make one of the best use of the situations and attempt to see what we will do with the ball up entrance,” Rohit had mentioned after successful the toss, including that the temper within the Indian dressing room was “completely buzzing”.
“The blokes are trying ahead to the Take a look at match. It’s been all the time good to return right here and play some actually good cricket and yeah, if you speak about how everybody’s feeling, they need to come out right here and showcase themselves.”
Because it was, India should wait till day two to point out their expertise and may have early wickets to pressure a 3rd consecutive outcome within the sequence.
