WTC Last India Vs Australia: Head and Smith Dominates Day 1

UNITED KINGDOM: India (IND) gained the toss and elected to bowl first within the WTC 23 ultimate between India and Australia (AUS) on the Oval.

The situations had been overcast, and that prompted preliminary hassle for Australian batsmen. Mohammed Siraj and Mohammed Shammi each bowled powerful lengths and confirmed an attacking method. 

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Usman Khawaja quickly misplaced a wicket to Siraj, and the rating was solely two runs, however David Warner confirmed some guts within the center and went on to play a useful knock of 43 runs earlier than getting out to Shardul Thakur.

David Warner and Marnus Labuschagne made a 50-run partnership to assist AUS get well from an early loss.

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Labuschagne appeared excellent early within the innings together with his strong drives and defence, however he utterly misplaced Shammi’s Inswinging supply and bought bowled on 26.

AUS was 76-3 in the beginning of the second session, and to date, the sport was in India’s grip. 

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After this state of affairs, Steve Smith and Travis Head completely took the sport away from IND on day 1.

Travis Head got here within the center and began scoring runs shortly, as he naturally performs. Steve Smith, alternatively, performed cautiously and took his time earlier than scoring runs. 

This combination of warning and aggression from Head and Smith turned out to be irritating for IND and useful for AUS.

Smith and Head made a humongous partnership of 200 runs. Head scored a superb century (146), his first towards IND, and Smith is near his century (95). Day 1 clearly belongs to Australia, extra particularly to Smith and Head, as they dominated Indian bowlers.

IND will search for a breakthrough as they will need to have to limit AUS from coming again into the sport.

Day 1: AUS:327/3 

S. Smith 95*: (227), T. Head: 146*(156), M. Shami: 1/77, M. Siraj: 1/67

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