Virat Kohli got here up with a superb plan with Mohammed Siraj to dismiss Steve Smith throughout Day 4 of the fourth Test match between India and Australia on Sunday. Kohli was caught on the stump mic instructing Siraj to bowl from the nook of the wicket as a way to draw the batter vast of the crease. “Kone se, kone se, har ball kone se. Usko pasand hai kone se (Bowl wide from the corner of the wicket. He likes it from there),” In the previous, Smith misplaced his wicket whereas chasing the deliveries outdoors the off stump and the plan labored for India as properly on Sunday. Smith ended up edging the vast supply straight to Rishabh Pant and the video of the whole incident has gone viral.
Meanwhile, Jasprit Bumrah on Sunday grew to become the second quickest Indian together with Ravindra Jadeja to finish 200 Test wickets and the primary bowler ever to achieve that milestone with a sub-20 common throughout the fourth day’s play of the fourth Test towards Australia.
Bumrah dismissed Travis Head (1) for his two hundredth sufferer within the post-lunch session, becoming a member of Jadeja within the listing of bowlers who’re quickest to 200 wickets in Tests.
Both Bumrah and Jadeja achieved the feat of their forty fourth Test, and total he’s twelfth Indian bowler within the format to finish the landmark.
SIRAJ KOHLI….!!!!
– Smith gone & recreation opened for India at MCG. pic.twitter.com/W1UcNaCWuv
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) December 29, 2024
The lately retired Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin was the quickest amongst Indians to have taken 200 wickets, a feat that he achieved in his thirty seventh Test.
Among all bowlers who’ve crossed the 200-wickets mark in Test cricket, Bumrah is the one bowler with a median of underneath 20 which incorporates a number of the fearsome quick bowlers from the West Indies reminiscent of Malcolm Marshall (376 wickets at 20.94), Joel Garner (259 wickets at 20), Curtly Ambrose (405 wickets at 20.99) in addition to England’s James Anderson (704 wickets at 26.45) and even Glenn McGrath (563 wickets at 21.64).
Ashwin is ranked third within the total listing of bowlers who have been quickest to 200 Test wickets, behind two leg-spinners — Pakistan’s Yasir Shah (33 Tests) and Australia’s Clarrie Grimmett (36 Tests).
The dismissal of Head adopted by that of Mitchell Marsh‘s (0), caught behind the wicket, as Bumrah took his wickets tally within the Border-Gavaskar Trophy to twenty-eight.
He had earlier dismissed opener Sam Konstas (8) for his first wicket in Australia’s second innings.
(With PTI inputs)
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