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Josh Hazlewood turned the third afternoon of the pink-ball Test right into a nightmare for the Indian batsmen.© AFP
Australian pacer Josh Hazlewood not solely turned the third afternoon of the pink-ball Test right into a nightmare for the Indian batsmen on the Adelaide Oval on Saturday, but additionally picked his 200th Test wicket within the course of. After tempo spearhead Pat Cummins had set the right platform by dismissing nightwatchman Jasprit Bumrah and Cheteshwar Pujara, Hazlewood wreaked havoc as he despatched Mayank Agarwal and Ajinkya Rahane again in a single over. With the wickets of Wriddhiman Saha and Ravichandran Ashwin once more in a single over, Hazlewood grew to become the 18th Australian bowler to achieve 200 Test scalps.
In his subsequent over, the right-handed pacer dismissed Hanuma Vihari to surpass former Australian bowler Jeff Thomson within the wicket-taking tally.
Former spinner Shane Warne is the main wicket-taker for Australia within the longest format of the sport, with 708 scalps beneath his belt whereas pink-ball specialist Mitchell Starc is ninth on the record.
Hazlewood is now the 17th highest wicket-taker for Australia in Test cricket with 201 scalps beneath his belt.
Cummins and Hazlewood took 9 wickets amongst themselves within the second innings, whereas Mohammad Shami was retired harm after being hit on his proper arm as India was bundled out for 36 within the second innings and that specific session price India the Test.
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Australia registered an eight-wicket victory on Saturday to take a 1-Zero lead within the four-match Test collection. Joe Burns hit a career-saving unbeaten 51 whereas Matthew Wade hit 33 as the 2 placed on 70 for the opening wicket, to extinguish any hopes India had of staging a fightback.
This was India’s lowest-ever rating in Test historical past because the crew’s earlier lowest rating was the 42, that they had registered towards England in 1974.
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