IND vs AUS, Day 3 morning bulletin: Yashasvi Jaiswal nears steely Perth hundred | Cricket News
IND vs AUS Day 3 morning bulletin: Yashasvi Jaiswal’s 90* in Perth on Saturday was a masterclass in tactical batting. He deliberately slowed down his scoring rate while carving his slowest Test fifty, emphasizing a patient and controlled approach with a patient KL Rahul for company.
India’s opening pair rendered the Australian pace attack ineffective across an unbroken 172-run stand on Saturday. Can the openers wear out Pat Cummins and Co. or will the reigning WTC champions fight back in style from the brink?
Revisit Sriram Veera’s account from the Optus Stadium on how KL Rahul guided young Jaiswal in a superb partnership
It’s not likely to stick in memory, it might not even have been noticed in the first place, but the Indian takeaway from Perth on a sumptuous second day was served KL Rahul. It was his carefully-curated walks half-way down the pitch to chat with Yashasvi Jaiswal.
Nearly every time his younger partner had a little dalliance with danger – a flashy drive, an ambitious cut, predetermined sashay down the track, Rahul would begin his walk. Head down, the bat tapping the turf, he would say something until he reached mid-way. Often, Jaiswal would walk to join him, nod his head, and retreat to cut out any unnecessary frills from his game for the next phase. Small little things, but Tests are often lost, if not won, due to those lapses. (READ MORE)
Australia coach grilled local media
The first two sessions of the Perth Test in the Border Gavaskar Trophy were owned Australia. But the game would turnaround so stunningly in the next couple of hours on Friday evening and a couple of sessions on Saturday, which has seemingly made the local Australian media almost turn hostile against its team.
It’s not sure what Australia’s head coach Andrew McDonald anticipated when he walked in for the media interaction, but he had to face up to a barrage of questions criticising the team. (READ MORE)
