IND VS AUS: India will be gearing up for the fourth and last test match of the Border Gavaskar Trophy ( BGT) 2023, at Ahmedabad. The home side is leading the series by 2-1 against Australia, Men in Blue needs to win the last test match to qualify for the World Test Championship (WTC) final, whereas Aussies have reached WTC Final after avoiding the clean sweep in the series.
Australian spinner, Todd Murphy dismissed Virat Kohli three times out of five occasions in the Australia tour of India 2023. Murphy grabbed his Baggy Green cap in the first test match at Nagpur, he shares his experience while bowling to the ace Indian batter in his debut game-
Australian leg-spinner feels bowling to Kohli is very intimidating-
“It’s been awesome. When I look back to Nagpur when Kohli walked out to bat, I was sort of at the top of my mark thinking ‘this is as good as it gets’ getting to bowl to a guy like that,”
“To be able to have that for the first three Tests has been awesome, a really enjoyable battle and no different to bowling to a lot of their guys when they stand there, it is daunting at times,” expressed Murphy.
Murphy who hasn’t played much first-class cricket has been impressive for Australia in this series. In his debut for Australia in the opening game of the series and has picked up 11 wickets so far in this series.
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“It is always nice when plans come off, Nagpur wasn’t an ideal dismissal, but you take what you can get, so to have a couple of times the last few games has been really nice and validation that what we are thinking works,”
Indian ace batter Virat Kohli has struggled in the BGT 2023 series with 111 runs in five innings. In the second test match at Delhi, Kohli was stumped on Todd Murphy’s delivery in the second innings of the test match.
Australian spinner has now unleashed themselves after the third test match, with Nathan Lyon’s first 10-wicket haul in India in the last match, while Matthew Kuhnemann complimented the other two spinners in the series. It will tough road for Men in Blue in the series-deciding test match on 9th March at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
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