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India vs Australia: Fourth Test, Day 2, lunch scoreboard
Sydney: The following is the lunch scoreboard on Day 2 of the fourth and final cricket Test between India and Australia being played at the Sydney Cricket Ground here Wednesday:
Australia (first innings)
Chris Rogers b Mohammed Shami 95
David Warner c Vijay b Ashwin 101
Shane Watson c Ashwin b Mohammed Shami 81
Steven Smith c Saha b Yadav 117
Shaun Marsh batting 14
Joe Burns batting 0
Extras (lb 6, w 6) 12
Total (for four wickets in 120 overs) 420
Fall of wickets: 1-200 (Warner, 44.5 overs), 2-204 (Rogers, 45.5), 3-400 (Watson, 107.2), 4-415 (Smith, 113.3)
Bowling
Bhuvneshwar Kumar 26-4-78-0
Umesh Yadav 23-4-119-1
Mohammed Shami 23-3-80-2
Ravichandran Ashwin 37-7-98-1
Suresh Raina 11-2-39-0
Match details:
Toss: Australia chose to bat
Umpires: Kumar Dharmasena (Sri Lanka) and Richard Kettleborough (England)
TV umpire: Simon Fry (Australia)
Match referee: Roshan Mahanama (Sri Lanka)
Reserve umpire: Gerard Abood (Australia)
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Sunil Gavaskar gives his opinion of GT allrounder Rahul Tewatia
The left-handed batsman from Haryana is garnering praise from all quarters for the way he’s finishing games regularly in the most exciting IPL season.
Gavaskar reckons Tewatia’s whirlwind knock in Sharjah (in IPL 2020) where he smashed West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell for five sixes in an over, gave him the confidence that he belongs to the big stage.
Speaking on Cricket Live on Star Sports, Gavaskar said, “That assault on Sheldon Cottrell in Sharjah gave him the belief to do the impossible and the confidence that he belongs here. We saw the impossible (he did with the bat) the other day as well. There’s no twitching or touching the pads (which shows a batter’s nervousness) when he bats in the death overs. He just waits for the ball to be delivered and plays his shots. He’s got all the shots in the book, but most importantly his temperament to stay cool in a crisis is brilliant.”
Gavaskar has also nicknamed the 28-year-old cricketer the ‘ice-man’ and lauded Tewatia’s ability to remain unruffled during the tense moments.