Новости за 26.12.2020

India vs Australia 2nd Test: Be it the angle of delivery, the bounce or the fielder’s placement, leg-side traps can’t be pulled off without accurate coordination. On Saturday, India did exactly that thrice.

Australia were bowled out for 195 on the opening day of the Test with pacer Jasprit Bumrah and off-spinner R Ashwin sharing seven wickets between them. At stumps, India were 36/1.

Impressed by Gill’s batting show on debut, former Indian pacer Ajit Agarkar reckoned that the 21-year-old should have got the opportunity a couple of years back.

Doctors have advised Khan to take a six-week rest following MRI scans in New Zealand which revealed the all-rounder has a teared muscle.

Williamson, who missed the last test against West Indies as he awaited the birth of his first child, was on 94 at Bay Oval with Henry Nichols on 42 as New Zealand battled for much of the day against Pakistan’s disciplined and accurate bowling attack.

Gautam Gambhir cautioned India’s batsmen from aiming huge totals, and in fact, felt given the bowling attack India have, the first aim should be to get to somewhere around 275 and then aim forward.

Dinesh Chandimal and Dhananjaya de Silva scored fluent half-centuries as Sri Lanka took advantage of some lacklustre South Africa bowling to post 340 for six at the close of day one of the first Test.

Flamboyant batsman Suryakumar Yadav will lead a 20-member Mumbai squad at the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy starting next month.

India vs Australia: If Mohammed Siraj had been patient with the ball and execution of India’s plans, the other debutant Shubman Gill was alert to the situation as he dived towards his right to take a good catch at backward short leg.

India vs Australia: While Jasprit Bumrah emerged India’s best bowler of the day, fellow pacer and Test debutant Mohammed Siraj impressed with his figures of 2/40, including the key wicket of Marnus Labuschagne and all-rounder Cameron Green.

The fast bowler’s brother Ismail said it was his late father’s dream to see Siraj play for the country in Tests and finally the dream was fulfilled on Saturday at the MCG.

IND vs AUS Live Cricket Score, 2nd Test, Day 1 Latest Updates: Indian bolwers Jasprit Bumrah and R Ashwin reduced Australia to 65 for 3 at lunch after the hosts opted to bat first. Follow live score of India vs Australia Boxing Day Test Day 1 in Melbourne today.

India vs Australia: Ashwin told Mohammed Siraj that he has earned his Test debut before the young man took the cap from him and wore it before the start of the second Test against Australia even as the rest of the Indian players were cheering and clapping.

India vs Australia: Ravichandran Ashwin removed Australia’s Steve Smith for a duck by setting up a leg-side trap on ay 1 of the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne. Sunil Gavaskar said it was a plan to restrict Smith.

Leicester City came back twice to end Manchester United’s away winning streak in the Premier League with a 2-2 draw.

“Our game has to come back because the goals don’t come as a present from Santa Claus. They come from our performances,” said Pep Guardiola.

The Gunners have lost five of those seven games and are languishing in 15th place, and they were also dumped out of the League Cup by Manchester City in a 4-1 home loss on Tuesday.

India vs Australia: Ashwin dismisses Smith for nought, his first since 2016, as he teams up with Bumrah and Siraj to hand India the Day 1 honours in the MCG Test.

The batting legend went on to praise Rahane’s sense of setting up the field for his bowler, which turned out to be accurate in Melbourne.

“Everyone at the club wishes our colleagues a speedy recovery over the Christmas period ahead of their return to work, training and competition,” City said in a statement

India vs Australia: After getting him out for 1 in Adelaide, this is the second time in the series that R Ashwin has dismissed Steve Smith for a low score.

India vs Australia: It wasn’t until the 28th over that Mohammed Siraj wasn’t handed the ball and the fast bowler revealed how all that while he was itching to get his hands on the ball.

The game has changed. Like the modern-day goalkeeper -- who often joins the last-minute goalmouth scrum to score or steps up for a penalty-kick -- wicketkeepers have to bat out of their skin more often these days.

India vs Australia 2nd Test: In the way their fathers backed them, Siraj and Gill’s stories are similar but their paths to the Test cap have been very different. Gill’s father Lakhwinder Singh had the means to support his son who has played youth cricket for India. Ghaus drove an autorickshaw for a living.

Ravindra Jadeja and Shubman Gill both charged towards the ball despite the former calling for the catch. The experienced all-rounder kept his composure despite the debutant charging and diving across him to hold on to a sharp catch.