Australia-A were bowled out for 223 in the first innings of the second unofficial Test against India-A in Melbourne. After this the team got a lead of 62 runs. By the end of the second day's play on Friday, India-A had scored 73 runs in the second innings for the loss of 5 wickets.
Abhimanyu Iswaran scored 17 runs, Rituraj Gaikwad 11, KL Rahul 10, Sai Sudarshan 3 and Devdutt Padikal 1 were out for India-A. Dhruv Jurrell was unbeaten on 19 and Nitish Reddy returned unbeaten on 9. Beau Webster and Nathan McAndrew took 2 wickets each for Australia-A.
Marcus Harris scored the highest 74 runs Opener Marcus Harris scored 74 runs in the first innings of Australia-A. Wicketkeeper Jimmy Pietersen contributed 30 runs and Corey Rocchioli contributed 35 runs. Nathan Max Andrew was unbeaten on 26 runs.
The famous Krishna took 4 wickets from the Indian team. Mukesh Kumar got 3 wickets and Khalil Ahmed got 2 wickets. A batter was absent. On the second day of the match, the host team started with a score of 53/2. On the first day, India-A's first innings ended on 161 runs.
Jurel's fifty, Padikal scored 26 runs India-A were bowled out for 161 runs in the first innings on Thursday. Dhruv Jurel scored the highest 80 runs for the Indian team. Devdutt Padikal contributed 26 runs. Nitish Reddy also added 16 runs. In the first innings, 7 batters of the Indian team could not even reach double figures.
KL Rahul also failed in Australia After flopping in the first match against New Zealand, KL Rahul was sent to Australia to play for India-A. Indian batsman KL Rahul failed at the opening position. He was dismissed off the bowling of Scott Boland for 4 runs. Michael Nesser took 4 wickets and Beau Webster took 3 wickets from Australia.
Michael Nasir sent 4 Indian batters to the pavilion.
Australia-A won the match by 7 wickets Australia-A won this match by 7 wickets. Captain Nathan McSweeney played an unbeaten innings of 88 runs and achieved the target of 225 runs with the loss of 3 wickets. Earlier, India-A scored 312 runs in the second innings. Sai Sudarshan scored a century of 103 runs, while Devdutt Padikal scored 88 runs.
Australia-A has won the first match to take a 1-0 lead in the series.
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