Junior Daniel Vettori of World cricket: Australian Young Off Spinner took Five wickets against India

Nagpur: Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023: Australia’s young off-spinner Todd Murphy made history in the first match of the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test cricket series against Team India. In the first test match of the series being held at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur, Murphy, who performed a great bowling performance for Australia, achieved the feat of taking five wickets in the first innings in the debut test match. Junior Daniel Vettori of World cricket: Australian Young Off Spinner took Five wickets against India.

Todd Murphy, the young off-spinner of the Australian team, 22 years old, who is already known as Junior Daniel Vettori in the world of cricket, has entered the record page in his debut Test match for the Australian team. The first match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test series is being held at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium here, and Murphy, who showed spin magic in the first innings for the Aussies, has achieved the feat of taking five wickets in one innings. Through this, he has entered the record page with the distinction of being the second Australian spinner to take 5 wickets against Team India in India.

The young spinner, who did not have much experience in first-class and List ‘A’ cricket, was selected by the Australian team for their Test team and allowed Murphy to play in the first Test by leaving out the experienced spinner Ashton Agar. The young player, who paid the price for the promise placed on him by the Aussie team management, took five wickets on the second day of the match and was named the best bowler of the Aussie team. Also, he is the youngest bowler to take 5 wickets in Test cricket for Aussies.

On the first day of the match, Murphy dismissed set batsman KL Rahul and gave the Kangaroos their first success, on the second day, the star batsmen of Team India like Cheteshwar Pujara (7), Virat Kohli (12) and R Ashwin ( 23) drew him out and drew attention. After the tea break on the second day, wicketkeeper batsman KS Bharath (8), who was playing his Test debut for India, was bowled for LLBW and achieved a five-wicket haul.

Despite having veteran off-spinner Nathan Lyon, who has taken more than 450 Test wickets, the young off-spinner who bowled for him made a special record. He became the second off-spinner to take 5 wickets against Team India in India. Even Nathan Lyon, who has played more than 100 Tests for Aussies, has not been able to do this so far. Jason Krezza is the first off-spinner to achieve this feat. Krejha achieved this feat in the Test match held in Nagpur during the 2008 tour of India.

Murphy is also the 37th bowler to take 5 wickets in his Test debut for the Australian team. Murphy earned a place in the Aussie senior squad based on his impressive performances for Australia’s junior team in under-19 cricket.

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Innings lead for the Indian team

At the end of the second day of the match, the Indian team has taken a huge lead of 144 runs in the first innings. Captain Rohit Sharma scored the 9th century of his Test career to give India the lead. After CDC Rohit was dismissed for 120 runs in 212 balls, Ravindra Jadeja (66*) and Axar Patel (52*) who have made a great partnership for the 8th wicket in the lower order have crossed the 300 mark with an unbroken partnership of 81 runs.

At the end of the second day’s play, the Indian team lost 7 wickets in the first innings and collected 321 runs in 114 overs. The total lead of the Indian team is to cross the 200 mark.

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