On Day 1 of the third Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Indore, the Indian all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja established a new record.
After winning the toss and deciding to bat first, India were dismissed for 109 runs. Ravindra Jadeja took the wickets of Travis Head, Marnus Labuschagne, Usman Khwaja, and Steve Smith during Australia’s first innings.
The spinner replicated World Champion Kapil Dev’s extraordinary achievement by delivering India’s first breakthrough in the second over. With the dismissal of Australian opener Travis Head on the fourth delivery of his first over, Ravindra Jadeja reached 500 international wickets. He is also the second Indian player to reach 5000 runs and 500 wickets in international cricket. The feat was accomplished in the 34-year-298th old’s outing for Team India.
Dev, the captain of the 1983 World Cup-winning team, accomplished this astounding feat throughout his international career. In 356 international appearances, he has accumulated a total of 9031 runs and 687 wickets.
Only eleven other cricketers have taken 500 wickets and scored 5,000 runs in international competition. The elite group also includes Jadeja and Kapil, as well as Wasim Akram, Jacques Kallis, Imran Khan, Shakib Al Hasan, Shahid Afridi, Daniel Vettori, Chaminda Vaas, Shaun Pollock, and Ian Botham.
Australia leads Day 1 by 47 runs.
Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bat first in the match. Even though India entered the game with a different lineup, things did not go smoothly for them. In the first innings, Australian bowlers dominated by dismissing the Indian top order without giving too many runs. Matthew Kuhnemann of Australia took his first five-wicket haul in the longest format of the game. Shubman Gill, who replaced KL Rahul, demonstrated promise by scoring 21 runs off of 18 balls.
In Australia’s second innings, Jadeja took the first four wickets as the day’s play came to a close with 156/4 after 54 overs. Australia’s opening batsman Khawaja scored 60 runs off 147 balls to assist the visitors in gaining a 47-run advantage in the first innings.
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