India Vs Australia 2023

With the pitch still in favour of stroke play at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Rohit was pristine in his timing, flicking and cutting off Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon with relative ease. On the other hand, Gill sweetly played a short-arm jab on a short ball from Cameron Green, before dancing down the pitch to smash a six off Lyon at the stroke of stumps.

"It was a lot of emotion in that. I have been to India on two tours before this, and carried the drinks in all eight Test matches. It was a long journey, and to finally get a hundred in India, as an Australian, that's what you want to do, it's what you want to tick off, so it's very special," said Khawaja at the end of day's play to broadcasters.

"It's a very clear direction forward for me now to just work on it and improve. I harbour no ill will or ill feeling at all, I'm very well supported in that camp, and they've kept in constant communication with me so it's all in a good place," Agar was quoted by Cricket.com.au.

Having won the third match at Indore, Australia need to win this Test to level the series 2-2. They decided to go into this Test with an unchanged squad. "We are going to have a bat, playing with the same team. Looks like a nice surface, does look like a good wicket. The guys performed well last week," Smith said at the toss.

Bharat, who has filled in for Rishabh Pant after the latter's accident, has excelled behind the stumps, but has scored merely 57 runs at an average of 14.25 in the series. While Jharkhand's Ishan Kishan, who is also in the squad, might be considered a closer fit to Pant given his batting abilities, Rohit looked to back Bharat in the near future.

India are leading the series 2-1 and need to win the fourth Test to secure a place in the WTC final while Australia would like to win the match to finish the series 2-2 and return home with a lot of pride. With so much at stake for both teams, the pitch for the fourth Test at the Narendra Modi Stadium here was under focus when India head coach Rahul Dravid came in for a pre-match press conference.

Murphy had Kohli superbly caught down the leg side by Alex Carey during a dream Test debut that netted the 22-year-old seven wickets in India's first innings and further impressive performances during the second and third Tests have only further confirmed that the right-arm belongs at the top level.

ICC Match Referee Chris Broad submitted his report to the ICC expressing the concerns of the match officials and after consulting with captains of both teams. Following the assessment, the venue has received three demerit points. Following the assessment, the venue has received three demerit points. The report has been forwarded to the BCCI, who now have 14 days if they wish to appeal against the sanction.

Labuschagne was on zero on day one in Australia's first innings when he was cleaned up by Jadeja. But replays showed that he had overstepped and from there, Labuschagne joined forces with Usman Khawaja which gave Australia an 88-run lead, which proved decisive, leading to them winning the match by nine wickets.

For India, top-order batter Cheteshwar Pujara stood tall with a valiant 59 off 142 balls in the second innings, through his precise footwork and judicious shot selection on a difficult pitch. But rest of the batters, barring Shreyas Iyer and Ravichandran Ashwin to some extent, couldn't step up, as Lyon finished with 8/64 and giving a target of 76 for Australia to make the series scoreline 2-1 on day three.