David Warner retires from Test cricket after playing his final match in Sydney against Pakistan. He helped his team beat the visitors on Day 4 of the Test match and signed off in style with a fifty. Warner scored a fifty in his final innings at the SCG.
Pant said he himself was aiming for a win and hence the aggressive approach and it was his failure at SCG which propelled him to correct his mistake in Brisbane.
Both Tim Paine and Steve Smith were panned by fans and experts alike for their unsportsman-like conduct during Tuesday's drawn Sydney Test.
The Oz skipper says he had a really poor game as a leader and wanted to say sorry for the way he behaved on the field during the final day of the third Test, which ended in a morale-boosting draw for the Indians.
Vihari (23* off 161) bats out the day with hamstring as he forged an unbeaten 250-ball 62 partnership with Ashwin (39 off 128) to earn Team India a morale-boosting draw at the SCG.
In a hot pursuit to chase down a record 407-run target in Sydney Test, the Indian batting mainstay breached the milestone while hitting his first half-century in the second innings in six years.
Harbhajan stated that he himself heard many things on the field while playing in Australia about him, his religion and his colour.
Play was halted for a few minutes on the fourth day of the match after India pacer Mohammed Siraj complained of abuse from a section of the crowd here, leading to expulsion of some spectators and an unreserved apology from the host board.
Play stopped Sunday while umpires and local police responded to complaints by India’s cricketers of crowd abuse on day four of the third test against Australia.
In the two incidents that occurred during the third and fourth day of the Test, Indian pacers Mohammed Siraj was subject to racial abuse on two consecutive days of the SCG Test.
Warner is still not hundred percent fit but Paine's eulogies bore testimony to team's desperation to get their opener back in the wake of their batting unit's flop show in three of the four innings so far.
Rahane, while sidestepping on unconfirmed series pull-out threats, made it clear that the focus is on the Test match starting tomorrow at the SCG.
The stand-in skipper also added that the call on future of fourth Test in Brisbane will be taken by BCCI and team management.
Curator Adam Lewis said hosting a Test is the biggest stage for them and considering the fickle weather this year, they have rolled out a pretty good wicket for the match.
Cricket Australia interim chief executive Nick Hockley says two and a half weeks time before the third Test keeps them hopeful despite closure of New South Wales border recently due to COVID-19.
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