Sehwag fumes at Gill, gives his own and Rohit\u2019s example to criticise India opener despite century vs Australia<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cIt was a difficult batting wicket in the end,\u201d Abbott said. \u201cFacing their spinners, they were ragging it both ways. Ashwin and [Ravindra] Jadeja on that wicket, especially Ashwin … tremendous skills spinning it both ways as a finger spinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHe asked me if I was picking them and I said \u2018no chance mate\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ashwin (3-41) and Jadeja (3-42) were able to extract significant turn on a surface which looked benign earlier when Indian pair Shreyas Iyer (105) and Shubman Gill (104) put on 200 for the second wicket after being sent in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After raising his ton, Iyer survived a caught-and-bowled shout on video review when a diving Abbott, while plucking a right-handed screamer, scraped the ball on the ground, similar to Mitchell Starc\u2019s contentious non-catch at Lord\u2019s which earned England\u2019s Ben Duckett a reprieve in this year\u2019s Ashes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stand-in skipper KL Rahul belted 52, then came the \u2018SKY\u2019 show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dashing Suriyakumar Yadav (72no) crunched the first four balls of Green\u2019s eighth over for 6-6-6-6 and hit six maximums in total in his thrilling 37-ball cameo, leaving Australia stunned and India assured of entering the World Cup with the No 1 ranking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
India vs Australia: \u201cWe didn\u2019t execute greatly with the ball,\u201d Abbott said. \u201cAs soon as we missed the stumps, we were punished.\u201d After the early departures of Matt Short (9) and acting captain Steve Smith…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[71],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3890,"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887\/revisions\/3890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totalcric.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}