India-A captain Shreyas Iyer made a shocking decision. (Photo-PTI)
India A vs Australia A, 1st Unofficial Test Match: Australia-A has started his tour of India in a strong way. His batsmen scored brilliant batting and more than 500 runs in their first innings in the first unofficial match. During this, two batsmen scored a brilliant century. After this, the India-A batsmen did a tremendous patrol and the visitors reached very close to their score while beating the bowlers of the team. During this, India-A captain Shreyas Iyer took a shocking decision. He declared his first innings behind 1 run behind Australia-A’s first innings score, while his three wickets were still left.
Shreyas Iyer surprised everyone
In the first unofficial Test match played in Lucknow, Australia-A declared his first innings for 6 wickets for 532 runs. After this, India-A batsmen did a brilliant batting in their first innings. From the team Devdutt Padikkal (150 runs) and Dhravu Jurlel (140 runs) scored a brilliant century. On the last day of the match, India-A had scored 531 runs for 7 wickets in its first innings.
During this time it started raining. After this the tea breaks. This did not show any result of the match. Meanwhile, captain Shreyas Iyer declared India-A for 531 runs for 7 wickets, while India-A could have taken the lead in this match, but forced Australia-A to bat for the second time. However, India-A did not get the benefit of this.
First Test match was drawn
Australia-A scored 56 runs in their second innings without losing wickets. After this, the match was declared a draw. Opener who scored a brilliant century in the first innings Sam Constuss Batted well in the second innings as well. He scored an unbeaten 27 in 49 balls. The second opener Campbell Kelaway scored an unbeaten 24 in 47 balls.
Opener Sam Custus scored an innings of 109 runs in the first innings. Apart from this, wicketkeeper batsman Josh Philip scored 123 not out. On the other hand, in addition to the centuries of Padikkal and Jurael from India-A, Narayan Jagadishan and Sai Sudarshan played a brilliant half-century innings. The second and last unofficial Test match between India-A and Australia-A will be played in Lucknow from 23 September.