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Steve Smith will captain Australia in the fourth and final test against India starting on Thursday as regular captain Pat Cummins remains in Sydney with his family, Cricket Australia (CA) said on Monday.
Star batter Steve Smith will lead Australia in the fourth and final Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy as regular captain Pat Cummins has decided not to return to India. According to a report in cricket.com.au, Smith will captain Australia once again, having led the team a morale-boosting nine-wicket win in the third Test in Indore last week. Cummins, who departed the tour following the second Test in Delhi last month, will remain in Sydney where his mother Maria is ill with breast cancer and is in palliative care.
Former India batter Sanjay Manjrekar feels that the Indian team lost the third Test of the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia as it was in the hangover of its dominance in the series by then. It is worth noting that the Indian team outplayed the guests in the first two Tests of the four-match series. The Rohit Sharma-led side won the first game by an innings and 132 runs in Nagpur before it registered a 6-wicket victory in New Delhi. However, Australia bounced back in the third game and defeated India by 9 wickets in Indore.
Batting great Ricky Ponting says the cricket community has showed its empathetic nature with its reaction to the illness of Pat Cummins' mother and highlighted the "awesome" gesture by the Barmy Army, the famous supporter group of Australia's arch-rivals England. Australian captain Cummins flew back home from India after the conclusion of the second Test in Delhi to be by the side of his ailing mother, Maria, who is in palliative care. He missed the third Test in Indore, and his participation in the fourth Test in Ahmedabad remains uncertain.
The public fallout between Indian cricket team all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja and ex-cricket Sanjay Manjrekar is no secret. Following the ICC World Cup 2019, Manjrekar called Jadeja “bit and pieces” cricketer which prompted a reply from the all-rounder. While both cricketers have put the incident behind them, fans have not stopped bringing it up both in person and on social media. One such incident took place during the third Test match between India and Australia as a fan in Indore teased Manjrekar while he was talking to Matthew Hayden near the boundary line. In a video released on social media, the fan could be heard shouting Jadeja's name at Manjrekar who looked at him angrily.
INDORE, India : Steve Smith knows how difficult it is to win a test in India so Australia's stand-in captain was thrilled to bits after guiding his team to a nine-wicket victory in the third test in Indore on Friday.
INDORE, India :Travis Head smashed a breezy 49 not out as Australia quickly reeled in their small target to wrap up the third test against India well inside three days in Indore, ending the hosts' nine-match unbeaten run at home.
Nathan Lyon took a magnificent 8-64 to leave Australia with a modest victory target of 76 against India in the third Test on Thursday.