Australia beat India by 48 runs in first Test thriller

December 13, 2014

Australia beatAdelaide, Dec 13: Spinner Nathan Lyon took seven second-innings wickets and 12 for the match as Australia pulled off a stunning 48-run win over India on Saturday in the first test at the Adelaide Oval.

India looked set to achieve a record run chase after stand-in captain Virat Kohli (141) and opener Murali Vijay (99) led India through a second session without loss.

But Australia took eight wickets in the final session, the match ended by Lyon on a stumping for the final wicket, prompting emotional celebrations by an Australia team playing its first match since the death of teammate Phillip Hughes two weeks ago in a domestic match.

Australia captain Michael Clarke suffered yet another hamstring injury and is doubtful for the second test beginning Wednesday in Brisbane.

Scoreboard

Australia (first Innings): 517/7 declared

India (first Innings): 444 all out

Australia (second Innings):

Chris Rogers c R Sharma b K Sharma 21

David Warner b K Sharma 102

Shane Watson b Mohammed Shami 33

Michael Clarke c Saha b Aaron 7

Steven Smith batting 52

Mitchell Marsh c Vijay b RG Sharma 40

Brad Haddin batting 14

Extras (b 1, lb 6, w 5, nb 9) 21

Total (for five wickets in 69 overs; dec) 290

Fall of wickets: 1—38 (Rogers, 12.1 overs), 2—140 (Watson, 38.5), 3—168 (Clarke, 45.6), 4—213 (Warner, 59.1), 5—266 (Marsh, 64.4)

Bowling:

Mohammed Shami 11—2—42—1

Ishant Sharma 14—3—41—0

Karn Sharma 16—2—95—2

Murali Vijay 6—0—27—0

Varun Aaron 10—0—43—1

Rohit Sharma 12—2—35—1

India (second innings):

Shikhar Dhawan c Haddin b Johnson 9

Murali Vijay batting 85

Cheteshwar Pujara c Haddin b Lyon 21

Virat Kohli c Marsh b Lyon 141

Ajinkya Rahane c Rogers b Lyon 0

Rohit Sharma c Warner b Lyon 6

Wriddhiman Saha b Lyon 13

Karn Sharma not out 4

Mohammed Shami c Johnson b Harris 5

Varun Aaron lbw b Johnson 1

Ishant Sharma st Haddin b Lyon 1

Extras (b 5, lb 8, w 2) 15

Total (all out in 87.1 overs) 315

Fall of wickets: 1—16 (Dhawan, 4.1), 2—57 (Pujara, 19.2), 3—242 (Vijay, 69.1), 4—242 (Rahane, 69.6), 5—277 (RG Sharma, 77.4), 6—299 (Saha, 79.6), 7—304 (Kohli, 81.4), 8—309 (Mohammed Shami, 84.2), 9—314 (Aaron, 86.1), 10—315 (I Sharma, 87.1)

Bowling:

Mitchell Johnson 16—2—45—2

Ryan Harris 19—6—49—1

Nathan Lyon 34.1—5—152—7

Peter Siddle 9—3—21—0

Shane Watson 2—0—6—0

Steven Smith 3—0—18—0

Mitchell Marsh 4—1—11—0

Match Details:

Umpires: Marais Erasmus (South Africa) and Ian Gould (England)

Test debut: Karn Sharma (India)

TV umpire: Mick Martell

Match referee: Jeff Crowe (New Zealand)

Reserve umpire: Geoff Joshua

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February 5,2020

Aukland, Feb 5: Striker Navneet Kaur scored a brace to guide the Indian women's hockey team to a convincing 3-0 win over New Zealand in the last game of its five-match tour here on Wednesday.

Navneet found the net in the 45th and 58th minutes, while Sharmila scored a field goal in the 54th minute as India drew curtains on the New Zealand tour on a bright note.

After a goalless opening two quarters, Navneet finally broke the deadlock for India in the 45th minute.

Sharmila then doubled the lead when she struck a powerful shot past the New Zealand goalkeeper in the 54th minute. Navneet found the net again just two minutes from the final hooter with a beautiful field strike.

India began the tour by thrashing New Zealand Development squad 4-0 before suffering close 1-2 and 0-1 defeats to the home senior team.

In penultimate game of the tour, skipper Rani's lone strike handed India a 1-0 win over Great Britain.

"...I am happy we produced three goals against New Zealand in the last match. This tour gave us a good insight about where we need to improve and one of the things is to create faster play than we do now," said India's chief Coach Sjoerd Marijne.

Commenting on his side's performance during the tour, Marijne said, "Sometimes we tend to keep the ball too long on the stick and then we create pressure. We need to avoid that by passing faster.

"On the defence side, we need to be a bit more calmer and need to improve our tackling. We will have a four week camp after a short break when we return home and we will be working on these points."

The Indian team will return home on February 7.

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April 21,2020

New Delhi, Apr 21: India skipper Virat Kohli on Tuesday said people seem to have become more compassionate while coping with the COVID-19 pandemic and hoped the sense of gratitude towards frontline workers like doctors and police personnel remains even after the crisis is over.

Speaking in an online class organised by "Unacademy", Kohli and his actor wife Anushka Sharma spoke at length about the challenges they faced before tasting success.

"The one positive out of this crisis that we as a society have become more compassionate. We are showing more gratitude to the frontline workers in this war, be it police personnel, doctors or nurses.

"I hope it stays this way even after we overcome this crisis," said Kohli with Sharma seated next to her.

Kohli said the pandemic has taught the world a very important lesson.

"Life is unpredictable. So, do what makes you happy and not get into comparisons all the time. People have a choice now how to come out of this phase. Life is going to be different after this," said the skipper.

For Sharma, the pandemic has forced people to care about the basics in life.

"There is a learning in all of this. Nothing happens without a reason. If the frontline workers were not there, we would not have access to basics," she said..

"This has taught us that no one is special than the other. Health is everything. We are more connected as a society now," she added.

During the session, Kohli was asked about the moment when he felt most helpless.

"I felt nothing was working for me when I was not picked for the state team initially. I cried the whole night and asked my coach 'why did I not get selected'?" he responded.

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April 14,2020

Melbourne, Apr 14: As all sporting action across the world has come to a halt due to the coronavirus pandemic, Australian bowlers are pondering as to how Indian skipper Virat Kohli might play in front of no spectators.

India and Australia are scheduled to play a four-match Test series later this year, and it is being speculated that the series might end up taking place without any crowds due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Australian spinner Nathan Lyon on Tuesday said that it would be interesting to see how Kohli goes about it if he does not get a chance to get the audience behind him.

"He is probably good enough to adapt to any scenario. But I was talking to Mitch Starc the other day and we actually said that if we are playing with no crowd, it'll be quite amazing to see Virat trying to rev up the empty seats," cricket.com.au quoted Lyon as saying.

"It is going to be a little bit different, but Virat is a superstar. He will be able to adapt to any climate that we are able to play in," he added.
During the 2018-19 series, India managed to defeat Australia in Australia for the first time in a Test series.

Australia, at that time were without the services of David Warner and Steve Smith. However, the series later this year promises to be a mouth-watering prospect.

"I am excited about the prospect of India coming out to Australia, it's up there with the biggest series alongside the Ashes. They are an absolute powerhouse of the cricket world, and to have those guys out here is going to be fantastic. Playing in front of crowds or no crowds is out of our control, we have got to follow the advice of all the amazing medical people around the world," Lyon said.

"I have not thought about no crowds or massive crowds, it is just about the opportunity of playing against India again. They had the wood over us last time they came over here but we are a much stronger Australian cricket side at the moment, and I am just unbelievably excited about playing them here at home," he added.

Lyon was slated to represent Hampshire in County Championship this year, however, his stint was called off last week due to COVID-19.
He is Australia's third-highest wicket-taker in the longest format of the game as he has total of 390 wickets in Test cricket.

Lyon was last seen in action in the Big Bash League for Sydney Sixers.

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