India A vs Australia A: Ruturaj Gaikwad’s Poor Form Continues in Unofficial Test

Team India and Australia are on tour before the Border Gavaskar Trophy 2024-2025. Team India A is playing its first unofficial Test match under the leadership of Ruturaj Gaikwad. In this match, Australia bowled India out for 107 runs in the first innings and scored 195 runs in reply to take a decisive lead of 95 runs. After that, Team India got off to a disappointing start in the second innings.

Team India’s captain Ruturaj Gaikwad also failed in the second innings. Ruturaj could not even crack a pumpkin in the first innings. Ruturaj opened the account in the second innings, but he could not make a big innings.

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Disappointing Performance from Ruturaj

Duck in first innings
5 in the second innings

Ruturaj Gaikwad is good but there are dozens of better Test batters in India right nowpic.twitter.com/G1V6W54Lrm

— Dinda Academy (@academy_dinda) November 1, 2024

As Ruturaj got out for zero in the first innings, he was expected to have a big innings in the second innings. Also, being behind by 88 runs, there was pressure to play a big innings. But Ruturaj failed in that. India lost their first wicket in the second innings in the form of Ruturaj.

Fergus O’Neill caught Ruturaj Gaikwad off Cameron Bancroft for 5 to give Australia their first wicket. India then lost their second wicket for 30 runs. Abhimanyu Easwaran was dismissed for 12 runs.

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Team India’s Fightback

After that, Sai Sudarshan and Devdutt Padikkal shared an unbeaten century partnership to save Team India’s innings. India scored 146 runs in 43 overs with the loss of 2 wickets on the strength of unbeaten half-centuries by these two. Mumbai has taken a lead of 58 runs with this. Sai Sudarshan is not out on 62 runs with 4 fours in 122 balls. While Devdutt Padikkal has scored 55 runs off 104 balls with the help of 4 fours.

Team India A Playing XI: Ruturaj Gaikwad (captain), Abhimanyu Ishwavaran, Sai Sudarshan, Devdutt Padikkal, Baba Indrajith, Ishan Kishan (wicketkeeper), Nitish Reddy, Manav Suthar, Navdeep Saini, Prasidh Krishna and Mukesh Kumar.

Australia A Playing XI: Nathan McSweeney (captain), Sam Konstas, Marcus Harris, Cameron Bancroft, Beau Webster, Cooper Connolly, Josh Phillip (wicketkeeper), Fergus O’Neill, Todd Murphy, Brendan Doggett and Jordan Buckingham.

Fans are eager to see if Team India A can overcome this challenge and put up a strong total to pressure Australia A in this unofficial Test match.