Delhi: The Border-Gavaskar Trophy is to start from November 22, but before that the Indian team had to face defeat in two unofficial test matches played between India-A and Australia-A. The second match of the series took place in Melbourne, where Australia-A defeated India-A by 6 wickets. In the first match also, the Indian team lost by 7 wickets.
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The performance of India A batsmen was disappointing in both the matches. In this match, Australia A won the toss and chose to bowl, which proved to be a right decision. The visiting team was reduced to just 161 runs in the first innings. In response, Australia A scored 223 runs and took a lead of 62 runs. Even in the second innings, the Indian batsmen could not do anything special and the entire team could score only 229 runs, giving Australia A a target of 168 runs to win.
While defending the target, the Indian bowlers made a good start and gave Australia 2 wickets for 1 run. Australia had lost 4 wickets till 73 runs, but after this the Indian bowlers were seen struggling to take wickets and Australia-A achieved the target with 6 wickets remaining.
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For India, star wicketkeeper batsman Dhruv Jurel scored important half-centuries in both the innings (80 and 68), but he was unable to avoid defeat for his team.
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