The second match of Border-Gavaskar Trophy between India and Australia is to be played in Adelaide from 6th December. Before this match, Team India played a 2-day warm-up match against Prime Minister XI at Manuka Oval, Canberra. Team India won easily in this day-night match played with pink ball. The young players of the Indian team showed a very strong performance in this match and strengthened their preparations before the important match. Harshit Rana shone in bowling, while Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Nitish Kumar Reddy left their mark in batting. However, the competition continued even after Team India’s victory. Actually, this was a warm-up match, so after chasing the target, Team India’s batsmen continued batting and played their entire 46 overs.
India’s easy win over Prime Minister’s XI
The first day of this match played between the teams of Team India and Prime Minister XI was washed away in rain. In such a situation, it was decided to have a 50-50 over match on the second day of the game, but on the second day also the game was disrupted by rain, after which the match was reduced to 46-46 overs. Indian captain Rohit Sharma had won the toss in this match and decided to bowl first. Batting first, Prime Minister XI played only 43.2 runs and was all out after scoring 240 runs.
19 year old Australian batsman Sam Constants played a brilliant century innings during this period. He scored 107 runs in 97 balls with the help of 14 fours and 1 six. Whereas, Harshit Rana was the most successful bowler of Team India. He spent 44 runs in 6 overs and took 4 wickets. During this, Harshit Rana took these 4 wickets in a span of 6 balls. Apart from them, Akash Deep got 2 successes. Mohammad Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Washington Sundar and Ravindra Jadeja also managed to take 1 wicket each.
India chased the target easily
Team India had a target of 241 runs to win this match. Yashasvi Jaiswal and KL Rahul started the innings for Team India, a good game was seen from both the players. Rahul retired after scoring 27 runs on 44 balls and Yashasvi Jaiswal played an inning of 45 runs on 59 balls. After this, Shubman Gill also recovered from injury and showed a strong performance, he scored 50 runs on 62 balls. At the same time, quick innings of 42-42 runs were also seen from Nitish Kumar Reddy and Washington Sundar. Apart from these, Ravindra Jadeja also contributed in the run chase, due to which Team India achieved the target at the loss of 4 wickets.