With a combined experience of 10 deliveries in Test cricket before this match, T Natarajan, Washington Sundar and Shardul Thakur picked up ...
With a combined experience of 10 deliveries in Test cricket before this match, T Natarajan, Washington Sundar and Shardul Thakur picked up a total of nine wickets between them. India took five wickets in the second day’s first session to bowl Australia out for 369 on the stroke of lunch in the series-deciding fourth Test in Brisbane on Saturday.
After resuming at 274/5 at the Gabba, the Australians lost quick wickets in the morning session including the overnight batsmen Tim Paine and Cameron Green.
Paine and Green had started aggressively on a flat batting wicket and looked to push the score beyond 400.
But shortly after reaching his half-century, Paine chased a wide ball from Thakur (3/94) and edged to Rohit Sharma at third slip to leave Australia 311/6.
Green survived a sharp chance on 45 off Washington Sundar but two runs later, the off-spinner got his revenge when he bowled the Australian number six for 47.
Thakur, playing only his second Test, took his third wicket when he trapped Pat Cummins leg-before for two to leave the hosts struggling at 315/7.
However, Nathan Lyon and Mitchell Starc went on the attack and the score raced to 354 before Sundar bowled Lyon around his legs after his quickfire 24 off 22 deliveries.
When T...
