Published: Feb 18, 2017, 08:30 AM (IST)
Edited: Feb 18, 2017, 04:41 PM (IST)
Hello, good morning and welcome to CricketCountry’s live cricket blog and updates’ post for the second day’s play in the tour match between Australia and India A. The three-day tour match is being played at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai, and this is the only tour game that Australia will be playing before starting the series against India, at Pune, from February 23. The Day One belonged to the visitors who made a strong start and were 327 for 5 at stumps.
Australian skipper Steven Smith and Shaun Marsh slammed centuries to put the visitors in a strong position against the Hardik Pandya-led India A side. Both the batsmen later retired out to give others a chance to bat. Haryana’s Navdeep Saini claimed two wickets in his first spell to send back David Warner and Matthew Renshaw. With the surface having more assistance for seamers, Pandya, who had opened the bowling, was clobbered early on by Warner but he came back and took the important wicket of Peter Handscomb. India A vs Australia tour match: Warner vs Nadeem, Pant vs Hazlewood and other key battles
At crease, Mitchell Marsh is joined by Matthew Wade and there is Glenn Maxwell to come in next. Out of the Indian bowlers, Saini picked two wickets and Pandya one, with Smith and Marsh retired out. India A will hope for a better show tomorrow.
Squads:
India A: Hardik Pandya (c), Akhil Herwadkar, Priyank Kirit Panchal, Shreyas Iyer, Ankit Bawne, Rishabh Pant, Ishan Kishan (wk), Shahbaz Nadeem, Krishnappa Gowtham, Kuldeep Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Ashok Dinda, Mohammed Siraj, Rahul Singh, Baba Indrajith
Australia: Steven Smith (c), David Warner, Matt Renshaw, Usman Khawaja, Shaun Marsh, Peter Handscomb, Mitchell Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Matt Wade (wk), Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Jackson Bird, Nathan Lyon, Stephen O’Keefe, Ashton Agar, Mitchell Swepson
