IND vs AUS: KS Bharat Under Fire After Dropping Easy Catch Of Travis Head
Ahmedabad: Australia are off to a great start in the final Border-Gavaskar Test with Aussie openers, Travis Head and Usman Khawaja adding 50 runs for the opening wicket. India were hoping for a good start but they didn’t get one as the Australian openers kept the Indian bowlers at bay. The Indian bowling was wayward but there were a few opportunities which the team didn’t cash on.
KS Bharat is going through an off day as he let go of a few easy byes. There was an easy chance of a caught behind when Travis Head edged one back to the keeper but he failed to latch onto that. The keeper is being brutally slammed on social media.
KS Bharat drops an Easy catch of Travis head….can prove to be costly ????#INDvAUS pic.twitter.com/VrTE8HEnFF
— Cricpedia (@_Cricpedia) March 9, 2023
Ks Bharat hai kyon squad mein ye apne aap mein ek mystery hai
— SK Rahul ???????? (@chwjqkqmqlmamjk) March 9, 2023
Earlier, Australia captain Steve Smith won the toss and elected to bat first in the fourth and final Test match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series at the Narendra Modi Stadium here on Thursday.
Having won the third match at Indore, Australia need to win this Test to level the series 2-2. They decided to go into this Test with an unchanged squad.
“We are going to have a bat, playing with the same team. Looks like a nice surface, does look like a good wicket. The guys performed well last week,” Smith said at the toss.
India skipper Rohit Sharma said he would have also batted first.
“We would have batted first. We know what needs to be done. We need to regroup as a team, you can reflect on so many things. Not the surface what we saw in the first three Tests, looks like a good pitch, I hope it stays the same for all five days,” said Rohit Sharma.
India made one change, bringing in Mohammad Shami in place of a rested Mohammed Siraj.
Playing XIs:
India: Rohit Sharma (capt), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Ravindra Jadeja, KS Bharat (wk), R Ashwin, Axar Patel, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Shami
Australia: Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith (capt), Peter Handscomb, Cameron Green, Alex Carey (wk), Mitchell Starc, Todd Murphy, Nathan Lyon, Matthew Kuhnemann.
(With inputs from IANS)