India vs Australia

India vs Australia, 1st Test Live Score Updates: There is an indication that Suryakumar Yadav might find a place in the starting XI at Nagpur.

Australia: [David Warner](https://indianexpress.com/about/david-warner/), Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Matt Renshaw, Peter Handscomb, [Alex Carey](https://indianexpress.com/about/alex-carey/)(w), Pat Cummins(c), Nathan Lyon, Todd Murphy, Scott Boland India go with 3 spinners, Shubman Gill and Kuldeep Yadav not in playing XI. India vs Australia 1st Test Day 1 Live Score Updates: Australian skipper Pat Cummins won the toss and opted to bat first at Nagpur.

IND vs AUS Live Cricket Score, 1st Test Day 1 Latest Updates: India are looking to make a good start to the series as they look for a fourth consecutive win ...

As stated earlier, it's Test cricket time! It's Test cricket time! India and Australia have played each other in 12 series, 50 Test matches to be sure before the contest was given its current name in 1996/97. Ian Healy found an early way of absolving Australia of any wrongdoing incase they get pancaked in this series by stating that a defeat for the visitors will occur if India produce “unfair” pitches. Pat Cummins: "I think that's part of the challenge of playing away. There was the brain fade moment where Steve Smith looked towards the dressing room while contemplating whether to take a DRS or not, leading to Virat Kohli stepping just short of calling them cheats. Regardless of what the spinning wicket is like, it will always be one where Ashwin would be almost unplayable. Right, here are Rohit Sharma and Pat Cummins in their Test blazers. We feel we are really well placed. We have had a good prep for the last 5-6 days. - Catch live score and updates of India vs Australia 1st Test Match here.

13th over: Australia 29-2 (Smith 6, Labuschagne 14) Siraj gets a spell and Shami returns. Australians will recall the veteran India quick from the 2015 ...

“Sky” has become a people’s hero with his six-hitting in the white ball formats and after 79 first-class matches he will finally gets to pull on the Test shirt for India at the ripe old age of 32. That was a big toss to win and Pat Cummins’ run of luck with the coin has continued. There was much talk in the lead up to this series about Head’s disappointing record on the subcontinent and his plan to combat it with the all-out aggression so successful in the home summer. 3rd over: Australia 6-2 (Smith 0, Labuschagne 0) Even two wickets down after three overs, the names Smith and Labuschagne inspire confidence. His first ball of the series is wide and skids low. He pulls his head in on the last and lets it drop at his feet. He wants more of a look at the leftie and a single is sufficient from this 10th over. However Smith swipes at the fifth ball and pulls it just short of a fielder. 15th over: Australia 33-2 (Smith 6, Labuschagne 19) Shami returns and so does the Australian stalemate. 18th over: Australia 44-2 (Smith 10, Labuschagne 24) Here comes Patel, a slower action to Jadeja but all the venom comes from that final flick of the wrists. 11th over: Australia 27-2 (Smith 6, Labuschagne 14) Siraj steams in for a fifth over, this one to Labuschagne who has now faced twice as many balls as Smith. Australia have broken the deadlock now and the pace is quickening.

Australia meets India in the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Nagpur. Check out all the live scores and stats in our live scorecard.

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India vs Australia, Border-Gavaskar Trophy: As always, an India-Australia series is replete with multiple storylines, from questions around the pitch to ...

Jasprit Bumrah and [Shreyas Iyer](https://indianexpress.com/about/shreyas-iyer/) are also set to miss the first test of the series. Swepson is a slow right-arm wrist spinner – the kind of bowler who has traditionally underperformed on subcontinental surfaces (think of Warne’s record in India). On the other hand, Murphy’s off-spin is quite similar to Lyon’s and might be targeted by a batting lineup full of right-handers. In fact, India will be missing arguably its strongest players of spin in Iyer and Pant. While Axar is definitely better with the bat and has impressed in the opportunities he has received in Jadeja’s absence, Kuldeep offers variety as a left-arm wrist spinner.There is a scenario where all four might play, but that will require India to play a batter less and Jadeja or Ashwin to bat at number six. Also, the benefit of playing four spinners is questionable as all four will ideally want to bowl long spells. With Ashwin and Jadeja being near certainties to start, Axar and Kuldeep will vie for the third spinner’s slot. The current Australian team has as many as five lefties in its top order: Usman Khawaja, David Warner, Travis Head, [Alex Carey](https://indianexpress.com/about/alex-carey/) and Matt Renshaw. [David Warner](https://indianexpress.com/about/david-warner/) today, Australia has a history of producing top-class left-handed batters. The India-Australia test match series for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy is set to begin today, with the two sides playing the first test at Nagpur’s VCA Stadium. One can be certain that the pitch will turn at some point in time. This is going to be Australia’s first test match tour to India since 2017, when the hosts beat the visiting side, 2-1.

The top two sides in Test cricket face off for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy before three one-day internationals ahead of the World Cup.

With India hosting the World Cup in October 2023, it is a vital series for both sides, who go into the tournament as hot favourites. The series then heads north to Delhi on Friday 17 February and on to Dharamsala for the third Test on Wednesday 1 March. Pat Cummins and Virat Kohli will face off in the blockbuster series on BT Sport

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The duo removed openers Usman Khwaja (1) and David Warner (1) within the first three overs as the ball swung. Mohammed Siraj from his first delivery of the match trapped Usman Khawaja in front of the wickets. So the post-lunch session is underway and Mohammed Shami bowled the first over of the second session. Pat Cummins did win a good toss and opted to bat as batting fourth would be an onerous task on a pitch which will deteriorate as the match progresses. Behind the stumps, debutant wicket-keeper KS Bharat collects the ball in a flash and removes the bails in no time. After Jadeja picking two quick wickets, Steve Smith counter-punching Axar Patel from the other end to keep the scoreboard moving and relive some pressure. The Indian players appeal and the umpire raises his finger. The rest of the Aussie batters Peter Handscomb, Alex Carey and captain Pat Cummins will have to play their part. Ravindra Jadeja is on fire as he has now accounted for the all-important wicket of Steve Smith. So the hard work done by Marnus Labuschagne and Steven Smith before the Lunch has been undone as Ravindra Jadeja has broken through and picked two wickets off successive deliveries to push Australia on back foot once more. Smith punished Axar for three boundaries in one over to stamp his authority. Bowling again a wicket-to-wicket line around off stump, Jadeja forces Smith to push forward and defend but the ball goes straight through the gap between the bat and the pad and hits the off stumps.

Aussie aggression and Indian mind games have become part of the new pitch mythology, giving the game that extra frisson on and off the field.

In the wake of India's 2004 series, no less than 3,000 Indians resident in India arrived in Australia to cheer their team, a first for Indian sport. With another chapter starting, made special by the 75th anniversary of India-Australia cricket, we can expect the highest quality of cricket to be played and consumed over the next one month. [Monkeygate](/topic/monkeygate)controversy - where a verbal altercation took place between Andrew Symonds and Harbhajan Singh in which the Indian had reportedly hurled a racist slur at the Australian - these figures witnessed a sharp rise. [India](/topic/india)toured Australia in the 1947-48 season to play a five-Test series, the first tour by a newly independent India. India's tour of Australia in 2003-04 assumed great significance here, interest stimulated by spectacular individual performances from India in the Test series. Even when bilateral relations were at a low (1950-70), cricket was seen as the bridge between the two.

Marnus Labuschagne and Steve Smith are at the crease for Australia, who lost Usman Khawaja and David Warner inside the first three overs of the series ...

The bails were ripped off the stumps by Bharat, but Smith was home and there was no edge heard. Jadeja's pace is in the low 90's, that one was 93kph, then the next 89kph. What a delivery, 89kph, genuine turn and real class. Is there a plan afoot? Not sure the sweep is on just yet, if I'm being honest. Bottom edge as Marnus tries to sweep and if he hadn't got that, he'd be out. Another lovely shot from Labuschange, pushing the ball to the long on boundary. He's starting to read this pitch and this turn and is reaping the rewards before lunch. Marnus that's a wonderful shot! Apologies if you covered it earlier Simon, I've only just tuned in - India must be laughing loud and hard to themselves - definitely won the mind battles in Australia dropping Head, who has averaged >50 over last couple of summers. Surely the match referee would have something to say if that was the case? By Simon Smale

Smith 77% after 30 balls. I'm getting the feeling that's because Smith is actively trying to attack the spinners more than Labuschagne is. And at one of those ...

Mushfiqur Rahim and Litton Das are the only other pair to account for more than 10% of their team’s runs. No other pair has proved as prolific for their team in Tests in recent times than this one. All through this partnership, Smith and Labuschagne have been spectacularly decisive.

Just after Rohit Sharma clumped Nathan Lyon over mid-wicket, the off-spinner stared suspiciously at the surface. The pitch might have stared back ...

[David Warner](https://indianexpress.com/about/david-warner/) in the space of six balls; Labuschagne and Renshaw in two. He would sweep and reverse sweep to glory for his 33-ball 36, and it was he who rattled India’s spinners more than Smith and Labuschagne, where the spinners knew that a killer ball was lurking and it was a matter of pressing and probing. In doing so, he might have laid the blueprint of batting on this surface, which would progressively get worse for batting as the surface wears on and the redness beneath turns the more prominent colour. [Steve Smith](https://indianexpress.com/about/steve-smith/) and Pat Cummins. [KL Rahul](https://indianexpress.com/about/kl-rahul/) where the ball gripped and turned and clouded his judgement, originated from the surface playing wicked. Labuschagne especially looked unalarmed — he drove [Ravichandran Ashwin](https://indianexpress.com/about/ravichandran-ashwin/), bowled from around the stumps he played inside out through extra cover for three before he paddle-swept him for a four, Smith gorgeously drove [Axar Patel](https://indianexpress.com/about/axar-patel/) through the covers. They get carried away and end up getting frustrated, lose control over their plan and mess up with the lengths. He was not often, rather he was hitting boundaries off even semi-loose balls and trusting his percentage strokes and defence. [Ravindra Jadeja](https://indianexpress.com/about/ravindra-jadeja/) would later say: “This wasn’t a rank turner. Maybe, India’s spinners simply bowled better, tighter and sharper, though without any doubt this was a challenging surface to bat. Maybe, Australia were a fraction overcautious in phases in the first session. Perhaps, this was a case of batsman’s skills providing the pitch a harmless makeover.

Live IND vs AUS, 1st Test Match Day 2: Rohit Sharma is batting in 70s while Ravichandran Ashwin is equally soild at the other end.

- 07:55 (IST)IND vs AUS LIVE: Welcome guys!Hello everyone, welcome to the live blog of Day 2 of the first Test between India and Australia. - 09:31 (IST)IND vs AUS Live: Day 2 play starts!Todd Murphy will bowl the first over of the day. [#TeamIndia](https://twitter.com/hashtag/TeamIndia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)all-rounder [@imjadeja](https://twitter.com/imjadeja?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)reflects on his super five-wicket haul on Day of the first [#INDvAUS](https://twitter.com/hashtag/INDvAUS?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)Test. - 09:45 (IST)IND vs AUS Live: FOUR!It didn't come from the middle of the bat but Ashwin and India will take it without any complaint. - 10:04 (IST)IND vs AUS Live: SIX!Pat Cummins bowls a short ball to Rohit Sharma and the batter nonchalantly pulls it away for a six over deep square leg. Like us on [Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robo.ndtv.cricket&hl=en)or [iOS](https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/ndtv-cricket/id418320331?mt=8). - 10:56 (IST)IND vs AUS Live: FOUR!On the pads of Rohit Sharma and he flicks it away for a four. Rohit Sharma is batting in his 70s while Ashwin is in his 20s.IND 117/1 (39) - 10:45 (IST)IND vs AUS Live: WICKET!R Ashwin is gone! - 10:59 (IST)IND vs AUS Live: FOUR!Another four from Rohit Sharma. - 10:32 (IST)IND vs AUS Live: India in control!No real threat to Rohit Sharma and R Ashwin from the Australia bowlers so far. India vs Australia, 1st Test Day 2 Live Updates:Rohit Sharma is solid at the crease but India have lost the wickets of Cheteshwar Pujara and Ravichandran Ashwin in the first session to go three down.

37th over: India 117-1 (Rohit 73, Ashwin 22) Will it be a sweet 16th for Nathan Lyon? He is 0-55, bowling to a Rohit Sharma in murderous form and wicketless ...

Bit of a muddle between the India batters on ball four as Rohit runs for a single despite it being Ashwin’s call. Eight runs from the over and India are in overdrive now. 36th over: India 115-1 (Rohit 72, Ashwin 21) As the partnership heads towards 40, Scott Boland barrels in to Ravi Ashwin who is into the twenties and growing in confidence. – Rohit hooks it off his eyebrows into the grandstand to uproar from the fans. Lyon tosses the fourth one up a little more and it worries Rohit and draws a yelp of excitement from wicketkeeper Alex Carey. What a bittersweet experience this must be for Agar, to be on the field but unable to bowl. As if Covid in his Test recall in January and that golden duck in the first dig didn’t batter Renshaw’s confidence enough now he’s heading to hospital for scans! Instead, Rohit flicks the final ball of the over past Boland at leg slip and all the way to the boundary. Pujara is quickly out of the blocks with six runs from his first five balls and Rohit Sharma has rocketed along to 73. So much so that Murphy completely flummoxed KL late in the day and he popped a return catch. First ball of the new Murphy over strays onto leg and it’s easy pickings for Rohit Sharma who clips it off his toes for a sweet boundary. Australia with their tail up and the dream debut for 22-year-old off spinner Todd Murphy continues.

IND vs AUS 1st Test: Get live cricket score updates of match between India and Australia. Check live scorecard, ball-by-ball commentary, cricket score ...

India 102/1 in 32 overs It's going to be spin, spin, spin and more spin. India are slowly moving forward in the game. Todd Murphy with the ball for Australia. Rohit Sharma (67*) brings up 100 for India with a six over deep square leg off Pat Cummins Only one leg bye in it. Skipper Rohit Sharma (73*) and Ravichandran Ashwin (22*) have put on 41 runs for the second wicket so far. Rohit Sharma (73*) and Ravichandran Ashwin (22*) are going strong in the middle for the hosts. India have added 40 runs today in 13 overs. Ashwin added a valuable 42 runs for the second wicket with skipper Rohit Sharma. Australia 177 Check live scorecard, ball-by-ball commentary, cricket score online on Times of India.

CRR: 2.92. Batting, R(B), 4s, 6s, SR. Rohit Sharma*, 85(142), 12, 2, 59.86. Suryakumar Yadav, 4(5), 1, 0, 80. Bowling, O, M, R, W.

98.2 Murphy to Axar, no run, ohh almost bowled! 97.2 Lyon to Axar, no run, full delivery, Axar defends to the left of the bowler 99.1 Lyon to Axar, FOUR, short and wide, cut away past backward point. He rushes back onto the field and we will resume again. Meanwhile the umps take drinks again. Jadeja runs off the field.

India vs Australia: Former India player Sanjay Bangar was mighty impressed with Rohit Sharma's batting in the first innings of the opening Test match ...

"The way Rohit started his innings yesterday was brilliant. Rahul was dismissed by Todd Murphy when he was at 20 off 71, while Rohit completed his half-century. [By India Today Web Desk](/author/india-today-web-desk): Former player Sanjay Bangar was highly impressed with [Rohit Sharma](https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/cricket/story/ind-vs-aus-mark-waugh-praises-rohit-sharma-border-gavaskar-trophy-nagpur-test-2332874-2023-02-10) for the way the India captain batted in the first innings in the Nagpur Test.