IND vs AUS 4th Test Highlights: India got a big victory of 184 runs in the fourth test played in Melbourne. With this, Australia has taken a 2-1 lead in the five-match Test series and there is still one match left in the series, which will be played in Sydney from January 3. Team India had got the target of 340 runs in the fourth innings, chasing which the entire innings of India ended at 155 runs. Yashasvi Jaiswal scored the highest 84 runs for the Indian team in the second innings.
Australia had scored 474 runs in the first innings, in response to which India had scored 369 runs in the first innings. Thanks to Nitish Reddy’s century, India was successful in saving the follow-on. When the time came for the second innings, the Kangaroo team scored 234 runs, due to which India got a huge target of 340 runs in the fourth innings.
Yashasvi Jaiswal’s hard work went in vain
Yashasvi Jaiswal scored half-centuries in both the innings for India. He was run out on the score of 86 runs in the first innings. In the second innings, he alone played 208 balls, in which he scored 84 runs. His wicket also remained controversial because on one hand no spike was visible in the snickometer, on the other hand when the ball passed near Jaiswal’s bat and glove, it changed direction slightly. On this basis, the third umpire dismissed Jaiswal. Within 15 runs of Jaiswal’s dismissal, other Indian batsmen were also out.
Why did India lose?
Whether Yashasvi Jaiswal was out or not, nothing can be said but the third umpire gave the decision against him. The decision of the Snickometer and the third umpire once again came under question when Akashdeep was caught out. There was a spike in the snickometer after passing the bat, yet Akashdeep was declared out. At the same time, Rohit Sharma’s poor captaincy was criticized during the second, third and now fourth match of the series. Rohit’s individual performance was also useless as he scored only 12 runs in both the innings combined. On the other hand, Virat Kohli could also contribute only 41 runs with the bat in two innings.
