Team India’s batsmen had a disappointing performance in the first innings of the World Test Championship final match against Australia. In fact, in response to Australia’s 469 runs, the Indian innings was bowled out for just 296 runs. For Team India, only Ajinkya Rahane and Shardul Thakur could cross the mark of fifty runs. Ajinkya Rahane contributed the most with 89 runs. While Shardul Thakur was out after scoring 51 runs. Along with this, Shardul Thakur crossed the mark of fifty runs and made a big record in his name.
Shardul Thakur has scored his third consecutive Test half-century at the Oval. He became the third foreign batsman to do so. Earlier only Allan Border and Don Bradman could do this feat. Now Shardul Thakur has also joined this special list. In the final match of the World Test Championship against Australia, Shardul Thakur played an innings of 51 runs off 109 balls. He hit 6 fours in his innings. At that time, Shardul Thakur was dismissed by Cameron Green.
Let us tell you that before this, Team India captain Rohit Sharma had won the toss and decided to bowl. After losing the toss, Australia, who came to bat first, scored 469 runs. In response, India’s first innings was all out for 296 runs. In this way, Australia got a lead of 173 runs on the basis of the first innings. Ajinkya Rahane played the highest innings of 89 runs from India.