Delhi: Marnus Labuschagne’s half-century in his second innings of the fourth Test being played between India and Australia in Melbourne created problems for Team India. Thanks to this brilliant innings of Labuschagne, the Kangaroo team was successful in taking its total lead beyond 300 runs. However, the Indian team had a golden opportunity to get him out early, but Yashasvi Jaiswal dropped an easy catch. On this occasion, captain Rohit Sharma shook his hand loudly in anger. Such reaction of Rohit shows how important that catch was for him.

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This incident happened in the 40th over of Australia’s second innings, when Akashdeep was bowling. His good length ball was hit by Labuschagne’s bat, and the ball went to Yashasvi in ​​the slip, but he dropped the catch. At that time Labuschagne was taking his team to a strong position, due to which Rohit got angry. After this mistake of Jaiswal, Labuschagne added 25 more runs in his innings and played an inning of 70 runs. Due to this inning, Australia was successful in gaining a lead of more than 300 runs.

It was not a good day for Yashasvi in ​​terms of fielding on the fourth day of the Melbourne Test. Dropping Labuschagne’s catch was not his first mistake. Earlier, he had also dropped an easy catch of Usman Khawaja at the beginning of the day. This incident happened during the bowling of Jasprit Bumrah, when Jaiswal was standing at the leg gully position. However, Khawaja was out early after scoring 21 runs, due to which there was not much damage.

It is noteworthy that on the fourth day, India’s first innings ended at 369 runs, due to which Australia took a lead of 105 runs in the first innings.

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