Special achievement achieved in the test match
Virat Kohli New Record (Aaj Samaj), Sports Desk: The first match of the Border-Gavaskar Test series is played in Perth. Team India achieved many records in this match. On the one hand, any Indian opening pair formed the best partnership in Australia, while the team’s experienced batsman Virat Kohli, coming out of his poor form, scored a brilliant unbeaten century. Along with this, Virat Kohli also made a special record to his name in this test match. Virat Kohli took 116 catches in Test cricket. With this he broke master batsman Sachin Tendulkar’s record of 115 catches. Now, among Indian players, he is surpassed by VVS Laxman (135 catches) and Rahul Dravid (205 catches).
Team India was close to victory
Team India is close to victory in the first Test being played in Perth. By the end of the third day’s play, Australia had scored 12 runs for the loss of three wickets. He still needs 522 runs to win. When the fourth day’s play begins tomorrow, team India would like to complete the formalities of victory by eliminating Australia at the earliest. It may be noted that this is the first match of the Border-Gavaskar series and the team that wins the first match of the five-match series will get a psychological advantage.
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Yashasvi Jaiswal and Virat Kohli centuries for India
After failing in the first innings, the Indian batsmen showed tremendous batting in the second innings and gave an almost impossible target to Australia. India declared the second innings with 487 runs for six wickets. Thus, with a lead of 46 runs in the first innings, the team’s total lead became 533 runs. In the second innings for team India, Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 161 runs, Virat Kohli scored 100* and KL Rahul scored 77 runs.
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