The start of the Australia tour for the Indian A team has not been as expected, in which the first innings of Team India in the first unofficial test match against Australia A team started in Mackay was limited to a score of just 107 runs. In this match, there were only three players from the Indian A team who were able to cross the double-digit mark, while three players could not even open their accounts. Brendan Dodgett took the highest number of 6 wickets in bowling from Australia A team. Nitish Kumar Reddy and Abhimanyu Easwaran are also part of Team India’s playing 11 in this match, in which both the batsmen could not show any magic in the first innings.
9 wickets were lost till the score of 86
If we talk about the first innings of the Indian A team in this match, the team was losing wickets at regular intervals from the beginning, in which captain Ruturaj Gaikwad returned to the pavilion at a score of zero, while after this half the team had returned to the pavilion by the score of 77, which also included the wicket of Ishan Kishan, who returned to the pavilion after scoring just 4 runs after facing 11 balls. Sai Sudarshan scored 21 and Devdutt Paddikal definitely scored 36 runs, apart from this, Navdeep Saini, who came to bat at the end, played an innings of 23 runs facing 43 balls and played a very important role in taking the team’s score to 107 runs.
Team India’s batsmen could not understand Brendan Dodgett’s balls
Brendan Dodgett played a very important role with the ball in wrapping up the first innings of the Indian A team from Australia A team, in which he bowled 6 maidens in 11 overs and gave away only 15 runs while also taking 6 wickets. Apart from this, Jordan Buckingham took 2 wickets while Fergus O’Neill and Todd Murphy took 1 wicket each.