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Boland takes six fa before Bumrah-less India makes life difficult for chasing Australians
Jordan Moll • January 5th, 2025 2:44 pm
Before play on day 3, the SCG was united, turning into a sea of pink to support the McGrath Foundation on Jane McGrath Day.
Before play began, the status of Indian star Jasprit Bumrah was still unknown, and only time would tell if he would be able to play a role with the ball or the bat.
India resumed on 6/141, leading Australia by 145 runs, but the Aussies were dealt a double blow with Pat Cummins edging off Ravindra Jadeja and bowling Washington Sundar in quick succession, making India eight down with a lead of 160.
Then, despite the injury concerns, Bumrah came out to bat in an attempt to manufacture a defendable total.
Mohammed Siraj was the next to fall with the cult hero Scott Boland finding the edge to get his second career five-wicket haul.
Just as quickly as he got his fifth wicket, Boland got his sixth, and for the first time in his test career, he had 10 wickets in a match with figures of 10/76.
India was dismissed for 157, losing 4-16 this morning, leaving a target of 162 for Australia to win the Border-Gavaskar trophy for the first time in 10 years.
India took the field without captain Jasprit Bumrah and started extremely poorly with the ball, with Australia being 0/26 off just two overs with 12 extras.
Australia’s flying start was halted when Sam Konstas hit a wild slog straight up in the air, gone for 22 and Australia 1/39.
Then India started to roar, picking up the wicket of Marnus Labuschagne and making it 2/52. Australia still required 110 to win.
Steve Smith came to the crease needing only five runs to reach 10,000 milestone.
Sitting on 9,999 runs, Prasidh Krishna got one to bounce on Smith, he edged it to Gully, leaving him agonisingly one run short of the milestone and leaving Australia still needing 104 runs to win.
Travis Head and Usman Khawaja were able to get the Aussies through to lunch only three down, requiring 91 runs to win.
Play will resume at 1:10 pm local time, where Australia will look to chase down the remaining runs to win the Border-Gavaskar trophy.
Listen to the rest of day 3 action of the SCG live on the SEN app.
