The World Test Championship remaining between India and Australia is underway on the Oval, London. It began with India skipper Rohit Sharma successful the toss and opting to bowl first. Helped by centuries from Travis Head (163) and Steve Smith (121), Australia posted 469 runs on the board of their first innings. Mohammed Siraj claimed a four-wicket haul whereas Mohammed Shami and Shardul Thakur picked two wickets apiece. In reply, India had a poor begin which ultimately noticed them dropping six wickets with solely 152 runs on the board.

Australia had been in a dominating place however the partnership between Ajinkya Rahane and Shardul Thakur for the seventh wicket introduced the Rohit Sharma-led facet again within the sport.

It was not a straightforward battle for the 2 batters as they needed to put their greatest foot ahead in opposition to the top-class Australian bowling line-up. The fielding errors from the Australian crew too helped the reason for the Indian duo.

Shardul was dropped twice by Australian fielders. A superb size ball from Scott Boland produced an edge from the bat of Shardul however Usman Khawaja failed to carry on to the robust probability. It occurred on the ultimate supply of the thirty ninth over of India’s innings.

Shardul received one other reprieve on the second ball of the forty fourth over when a Pat Cummins supply noticed him edging the ball to Cameron Green at slip. However, Green didn’t take the catch and Shardul survived.

The luck gave the impression to be on Shardul’s facet as he later survived one other scare. He was trapped in entrance of the stumps by Cummins within the sixtieth over, umpire too raised his finger however a evaluate from Shardul revealed that Cummins had bowled a no-ball.

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