Australia 'A', replying to 301 that India 'A' posted in their first innings, folded up for 268, adding a mere 63 on the day and losing their remaining six wickets. Karnataka speedster Abhimanyu Mithun
Recalled Test leg-spinner Amit Mishra picked up three of the six Australia 'A' wickets on Friday to give India 'A' a handy first-innings lead on the third and penultimate day of the first 'Test' in Chennai on Friday.
On a MA Chidambaram Stadium pitch, where the spinners have called the shots so far, Mishra, who was on Thursday named in the Test squad after four years for the tour of Sri Lanka, finished with 3/55 while left-arm spinner Pragyan added two to his overnight three scalps to end with 5/85.
Australia 'A', replying to 301 that India 'A' posted in their first innings, folded up for 268, adding a mere 63 on the day and losing their remaining six wickets. Karnataka speedster Abhimanyu Mithun
At stumps, India 'A' were on 121/3, enjoying an overall lead of 154.
Australia 'A' overnight not out batsmen Peter Handscomb and Marcus Stoinis seemed set to take their side past the India 'A' score and looked good for individual centuries. Handscomb, 24 and right-handed batsman, moved from his overnight 75 to 91, missing his fifth first-class century by nine runs when he was dragged out by Mishra and was duly stumped by Naman Ojha. Discarded Australia senior team wicketkeeper Mathew Wade made only two before being Mishra's second victim.
On Stoinis rested Australians' last hopes of overhauling the home team total but he fell victim to Ojha. The tail folded up without any resistance.
In their second essay, India 'A' were served well by Abhinav Mukund (40) and skipper Cheteshwar Pujara (42). Test batsman KL Rahul shared 39 for the first wicket with Mukund, the former scoring 29 of them with four fours and a six.
Mukund and Pujara hit four and five boundaries, respectively, before getting out towards the fag end of the day's play. Both the wickets were taken by fast medium bowler Gurinder Sandhu (2/13), who was part of Delhi Daredevils in the 2015 IPL. Karnataka's Karun Nair (4) and Mumbai's Shreyas Iyer (4) were at the crease when stumps were drawn.
(With PTI inputs)
Scoreboard
India 'A' (1st innings): 301
Australia 'A' (1st innings, o/n 185/4): P Handscomb st N Ojha b Mishra 91, M Stoinis c Shankar b P Ojha 77, M Wade c Mukund b Mishra 2, S Abbott run out 7, S O'Keefe not out 10, G Sandhu b P Ojha 0, A Fekete c Rahul b Mishra 12
Extras (B8, LB2, NB1) 11
Total (all out, 99.3 overs) 268
Fall of wickets: 4-75 (Maddinson), 5-229 (Handscomb), 6-233 (Wade), 7-246 (Stoinis), 8-248 (Abbott), 9-248 (Sandhu)
Bowling: U Yadav 17-5-44-0, A Mithun 13-3-32-1, V Shankar 11-4-24-0, P Ojha 31-3-85-5, A Mishra 24.3-7-55-3, K Nair 3-0-18-0
India 'A' (2nd innings): KL Rahul c Maddinson b Head 29, A Mukund c Bancroft b Sandhu 40, C Pujara c Handscomb b Sandhu 42, K Nair batting 4, S Iyer batting 4
Extras (LB2) 2
Total (for 3 wkts, 46 overs) 121
Fall of wickets: 1-39 (Rahul), 2-110 (Mukund), 3-117 (Pujara)
Bowling: G Sandhu 11-5-13-2, A Fekete 4-1-18-0, S O'Keefe 17-3-54-0, T Head 7-3-20-1, S Abbott 5-1-13-0, M Stoinis 2-1-1-0
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