Journalism of Courage
India started off slowly on Day 4 as Australia kept close-in fielders for the batsmen. Rohit Sharma soon succumbed to the pressure when he handed over a catch to Nathan Lyon off his own bowling. A collapse followed soon after. (Source: AP)
The mastermind behind India's collapse was Australia's Nathan Lyon. He kept on extracting the bounce from the pitch and got rid of Rohit Sharma with a beautiful return catch. (Source: AP)
India's Karn Sharma was foxed as Australia pacer Peter Siddle bolwed an in-swinging yorker to the debutant. (Source: AP)
Once India folded, Australia's David Warner took things into his hands. With a lead of 73 runs, Warner tried to put it beyond the visiting Indians. (Source: AP)
Karn Sharma took the first wicket of the Australian innings as he removed Chris Rogers. (Source: AP)
David Warner lost his middle-stump to Varun Aaron but his dismissal was ruled out as it was a no-ball by the Jharkhand pacer. (Source: AP)
In the heat of the moment some of the players exchanged words on the field. India captain had to intervene to keep things under check. (Source: AP)
David Warner hugs his partner Steve Smith as he entered the exclusive club of scoring century in both the innings. (Source: AP)
scored his second century of the match. (Source: AP)
Trying to hoick a Varun Aaron delivery over midwicket Warner was clean bowled, but replays revealed that Aaron had overstepped, this resulted in some unpleasant verbal exchanges and Virat Kohli eventually intervened to calm things down. (Source: AP)
Kohli displayed a more mature and responsible side of himself both while intervening to settle the Warner-Aaron run-in and generally on the field too. Virat is sharpening his captaincy skills at just the right time. (Source: AP)
Steven Smith has become the new Mr.Dependable for Australia, maybe its way too premature to compare him to the likes of Michael Hussey or Michael Bevan but the New South Wales lad is showing signs of being a solid player with both technique and temperament. Who knows maybe we're looking at Australia's future captain in the making. (Source: AP)
David Warner repeated his dear mate Phil Hughes' feat of scoring a ton in both innings of the same match, Phil did it against South Africa. Warner has really fired up his teammates and the Indian players. (Source: AP)
