Nitish Reddy and Washington Sundar have joined the list of highest partnership scores for 8th wicket during the first innings of the fourth test of the Border Gavaskar Trophy at Melbourne.
They have gone past Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh Pair who smashed 107 runs in 2008 at Adelaide and are below the Sachin-Harbhajan duo who scored 129 runs in 2008 at Sydney.
Resuming the match on day 03, Rishabh Pant was dismissed early with 28 runs while Nathan Lyon dismissed Jadeja on 17 runs.
Nitish Reddy and Washington Sundar have formed a solid partnership after top and middle order failures to avoid follow-on and cross the 300-run mark.
Highest partnership for 8th wicket or lower for India in Australia
- 129 S Tendulkar – Harbhajan Sydney 2008
- 127 N Reddy – W Sundar Melbourne 2024
- 107 A Kumble – Harbhajan Adelaide 2008
Australia batted first and made scores of 311/6 by the end of day 01. Earlier on day 02, Australia went on to score 474 runs with Steven Smith scoring 140. They were able to post a huge total with half-centuries from Sam Konstas, Usman Khawaja and Labuschagne.
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Washington and Reddy are both nearing milestones and could reach them in this session. #AUSvIND
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Pat Cummins scored 49 runs at the low order to strengthen their score. Indian bowlers worked on a challenging surface, with Bumrah picking 4/99, Jadeja had a return of 3/78 and Akash Deep picking 2/94 runs.
After KL Rahul’s dismissal for 24 runs by cummins, India struggled once again with top order woes. However, Kohli-Jaiswal Partnership recovered India, but did not last long.
Virat Kohli and Yashasvi Jaiswal stitched a solid partnership to recover India after the loss of Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul.
They made a 100 run partnership before being dismissed for 82 and 36 runs respectively. After their dismissal Akash Deep sent out on a duck with Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja at crease by the end of day 02.
Washington Sundar smashed a half century before being dismissed by Lyon while Nitish Kumar smashed his maiden Test century and also become one of the youngest at the time of maiden Test century for India in Australia.
With Bumrah’s dismissal by Cummins on a duck, India is down to last one wicket with Nitish Reddy and Mohammed Siraj at crease.
