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A six-wicket haul from pacer Mukesh Kumar helped India A keep within the hunt throughout their first unofficial Check towards Australia A at Mackay on Friday. Australia A began the day two at 99/4, with their captain Nathan Mcsweeney (29*) and Cooper Connolly (14*) unbeaten. Earlier, that they had misplaced Border-Gavaskar Trophy opening spot contenders Sam Konstas (0), Cameron Bancroft (0), Marcus Harris (17) and Beau Webster (39), with Mukesh getting two of those scalps. Mukesh eliminated Connolly for 37, ending a 51-run partnership with McSweeney. Josh Philippe was additionally dismissed by Mukesh for 4 runs. Nitish Kumar Reddy bought McSweeney for 39 in 131 balls, with 4 boundaries.
Australian batting couldn’t put up a lot of a combat towards Indian tempo they usually had been bundled out for 195 runs.
Mukesh took six wickets for 46 runs in 18.4 overs. Prasidh Krishna took 3/59 in his 18 overs whereas Nitish bought one wicket.
Australia A gained an 88 run lead over India A, who had been bundled out for simply 107 runs of their first innings. Devdutt Padikkal (36 in 77 balls, with two fours) and Sai Sudharsan (21 in 35 balls, with a boundary) and Navdeep Saini (23 in 42 balls, with two fours and a six) performed some essential knocks for India.
Brendan Doggett (6/15) was the choose of the bowlers for Australia A in 11 overs. Jordan Buckingham bought two wickets whereas Todd Murphy and Fergus O’Neill bought one wicket every.
India A is in the meantime enjoying their second innings and can be aiming to get an enormous lead.
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