IND vs AUS A 2nd Practice Match Day 1 Highlights: How India decimated AUS at SCG

An eventful day comes to a close, with 20 wickets and 302 runs. Day 1: Stumps - Australia A - 108 (32.2), trail by 86 runs. The Indian seamers have been top-notch in the warmup game. Shami and Bumrah have been brilliant as usual. There is going to be selection headaches regarding the 3rd pacer slot with Saini's performance. A clear message from Indian fast bowlers to Indian batsmen that if you put decent first innings score on the board we will win you games.

Harry Conway also batting with a stomach guard.

Swepson is gone for 1 and Saini making a case for himself to be included in the first Test as the third seamer. Score after 31 overs,
AUSA- 104/9

Last season Australia A were 57/9 vs Pakistan in Perth in the pink-ball game

Now Australia A are 99/9 vs India

Another one bites the dust! Saini strikes again and gets the big wicket of Alex Carey! Pant gleefully accepts the outside edge and AUS- 97/8, trail by 97 runs.

Saini gets into the act to send back Sutherland. Another catch taken in the slips. Score after 25 overs, AUSA 84-7, trail by 110 runs

WICKET! Bumrah strikes to take his second wicket. Australia A lose their sixth wicket. Short and faster. Wildermuth walking back. Score after 24 overs, AUSA- 83/6

Another wicket for Shami! Second-innings Shami has shown up early today. Brilliant bowling this. Almost unplayable. Score after 19 overs, AUSA- 56/5, Australia A trail by 134 runs

WICKET! Brilliant catch by Saha, who had to run back a fair bit, to send back Maddinson. A wicket for Siraj. Score after 16 overs, AUSA- 56/4

Marcus Harris departs for 26(47) caught by Shubman Gill!! Four balls later, Ben McDermott is out for a duck. Mohammad Shami's second wicket of the over. Score after 13 overs, AUSA- 46/3

No overs lost. Mohammed Siraj, right-arm fast medium, comes into the attack. Score after 11 overs, AUSA- 40/1

Australia A - 36/1 (10.4), trail by 158 runs. Good start for both the teams. India got a wicket while aus kept the score moving. 

Cameron Green has been SUBBED OUT of the Australia A tour match against India. Score after 9 overs, AUSA- 31-1

Bumrah strikes first!

Joe Burns not out on 0 and giving him company is Marcus Harris on 4 (7). Score after 1 over, AUSA 6-0, trail by 188 runs

India have been bowled out for 194 against Australia A at the SCG. The last-wicket stand between Bumrah and Siraj was worth 71 runs.

J Bumrah - 55*
S Gill - 43
P Shaw - 40

J Wildermuth 3/13 
S Abbott 3/46

And he gets there with a six over fine-leg. Maiden first-class fifty for Jasprit Bumrah and this is also his first 50 in any format! He gets to his half-century in 54 balls in a pink-ball game against Australia A! Score after 48 overs, IND- 193/9

Another injury scare for Australia: Cameron Green takes one on the side of the head from a Jasprit Bumrah drive. Struck firmly. He was back on his feet fairly quickly but leaves the field for further assessment

Jasprit Bumrah is having a ball - with the bat - in the middle at the SCG - 40* off 45 balls with six fours and a six !!!

Another boundary from the bat of Bumrah. Jasprit Bumrah is the 3rd highest run-scorer in this innings with 25 from 36 deliveries. Score after 42 overs, IND- 145/9

Jasprit Bumrah whose first-class cricket high score was 16, reached 25* off 36 here at SCG against Australia. India 142/9

Australia have not tried any spinner here against Indian batting line up. Sean Abbott and Jack Wildermuth have been exceptional with 3 wickets each. Harry Conway, Will Sutherland and Cameron Green have also managed to scalp one each. This is simply not a good signal for Indians facing Aussies in the first Test from November 17 at Adelaide Oval.

India 131/9 in 38.2 overs

With the Indian tail has been exposed to the fiery bowling attack of the Australians, India lost their ninth wicket in form of Navdeep Saini. India lost four for 14 in last 10 overs. Mohd Siraj is the new man in.India 123/9

India lost their 8th wicket with Mohammed Shami's wicket. Fast, outside off, and he has a flay at it from the crease. Big nick through to the keeper, and Abbott joins Wildermuth on three wickets apiece.
India 116/8

Wridhhiman Saha who was the last nail in the coffin of the Indian batting line up before the Australian bowling attack. Sean Abbott's good length ball took an edge of Saha's bat and a low catch was taken at the third slip. Saha gone for a duck.
India 111/7

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India 111/6 after 28 overs, Saha 0* (10), Saini 0* (7)

With Prithvi Shaw and Shubman Gill's batting spark, Indians looked aggressive in the first hour of the day but the Aussies bowlers crept back into the game and gained the upper hand by claiming 6 wickets in the first session. Green was impressive in his 4-over spell and so was Wildermuth. Wriddhiman Saha and Navdeep Saini will proceed ahead into the second session now. 

111/6 (18/4 in last 10 overs)

What a disastrous end of the first session for India. The visitors lost their last four wickets in just five overs. Rishabh Pant (5 off 11 balls), Ajinkya Rahane (4 off 10 balls), Shubman Gill (43 off 58 balls) and Hanuma Vihari (15 off 39 balls) are the latest casualties.

India 111/6

Skipper Ajinkya Rahane goes for 4 runs after Wildermuth got better of him. And that's the fifth wicket this session! Back of a length outside the off stump. Rahane goes after it and gets an outside edge back to the keeper.
India 106/5

Cameron Green bowls an unplayable delivery to in-for Shubman Gill and the ball carried to wicketkeeper Alex Carey after a nick from the bat. India lost the fourth of the session. Rishabh Pant is the new man in.
India 102/4

Hanuma Vihari, who seemed to be taking sufficient time at the middle, had no reply to Jack Wildermuth's swinger which kissed the top of the off-side bail. Vihari out for 15 off 39

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India 93/2 in 17 overs with Gill 42*, Vihari 8*

Indian innings first drinks break is here and India are 87/2 in 14 overs. Shubman Gill has scored 36 off 34 balls with 5 fours and one six. Hanuma Vihari on the other hand is taking his time at the SCG. Sean Abbott and Will Sutherland are holding the attack.

Four members of Australia's Test squad are playing in the tour game- opening batsman Joe Burns, all-rounder Cameron Green, pace bowler Sean Abbott and leg-spinner Mitchell Swepson.India 85/2 in 13 overs (Gill 35*, Vihari 7*)

Prithvi Shaw, who was looking in great touch, departed for 40 off just 29 balls. Will Sutherland got the wicket in his first over and the 63-run partnership ended here. Hanuma Vihari is the new man in. India 72/2 in 8.5 overs

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