The second match of Border-Gavaskar Trophy is to be played in Adelaide from 6th December. This will be a day-night match which will be played with pink ball. Before this match, a 2-day warm-up match is being played between Team India and Prime Minister X1, which is being played with pink ball at Manuka Oval, Canberra. Let us tell you, the first day of this match was washed away in the rain. In such a situation, it was decided to play a 50-50 over match on the second day of the game. During this period, very lethal bowling was seen from Team India’s young fast bowler Harshit Rana.
Harshit Rana wreaked havoc with pink ball
Indian captain Rohit Sharma won the toss in this match and decided to bowl first. But after 4 overs of Prime Minister X1’s innings, the match had to be stopped due to rain. In such a situation, when the game started again, the overs were also reduced. Mohammad Siraj and Akash Deep started the bowling for Team India. After this Harshit Rana was used. Prime Minister X1 lost its first two wickets for 22 runs only. But Indian bowlers were seen struggling for the third wicket. But Harshit Rana made Team India’s comeback in just 6 balls.
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Harshit Rana brought the 23rd over of Prime Minister X1’s innings. At that time the score of Prime Minister X1 was 124 runs at the loss of 2 wickets. After this, Harshit Rana gave the third blow to Prime Minister X1 on the fourth ball of this over and achieved his first success. After this, Harshit Rana took his second wicket on the last ball of the over. Harshit did not stop even after this. He again took command of the bowling in the 25th over of the innings and took 2 wickets in the first 3 balls, that is, Harshit took 4 wickets in his 6 balls. Due to which the score of Prime Minister X1 increased from 131 for 2 wickets to 133 for 6 wickets.
Got a chance to debut in Perth Test
Harshit Rana made his international debut during the first match of the series itself. In the first innings of Perth Test, Harshit Rana had made a total of 3 batsmen his victims. At the same time, Harshit Rana had 1 wicket in his name in the second innings. In such a situation, Harshit has now strengthened his claim for the Adelaide Test as well.