Border Gavaskar Trophy: Axar Patel, R Ashwin develop into fourth No.8 Indian pair with century plus stand vs Australia

Border Gavaskar Trophy: Axar Patel and Ravi Ashwin placed on 114 runs for the eighth wicket within the Delhi Test in opposition to Australia at Arun Jaitley Stadium.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Feb 18, 2023 16:24 IST

Axar, Ashwin develop into fourth No.8 pair with century plus stand vs Australia. Courtesy: AP

By India Today Web Desk: Axar Patel and Ravi Ashwin grew to become the fourth No.8 pair to placed on a century partnership stand for India in opposition to Australia in Test cricket. The duo placed on 114 runs within the second sport of the four-match Test sequence on the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi.

The batters got here collectively when India have been trailing by 124 runs with solely three wickets left of their first innings. When Aussie skipper Pat Cummins dismissed Ashwin to separate the duo, the path was all the way down to 10 runs.

Even as Ashwin scored 37 runs off 71 balls with 5 fours, Axar scored 74 runs with 9 fours and three sixes earlier than Todd Murphy dismissed him. But their efforts couldn’t take India’s rating previous their opponents’ as Australia took a 1-run lead.

Axar and Ashwin’s partnership is the third-highest eighth-wicket stand for India in Tests in opposition to Australia. Harbhajan Singh and Sachin Tendulkar maintain the report after they placed on 129 runs on the Sydney Cricket Ground again in January 2008.

Karsan Ghavri and Syed Kirmani stitched collectively a 127-run stand in opposition to the Aussies again in November 1979 on the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.

Harbhajan Singh and Anil Kumble placed on 107 runs for the eighth wicket in opposition to Australia again in January 2008 on the Adelaide Oval.

As far as Axar and Ashwin are involved, they’ve been in first rate kind with the bat of late. Axar scored 84 within the Nagpur Test and broke into the highest 10 of the ICC Test rankings all-rounder’s listing for the primary time in his profession.

Apart from performing with the bat, Ashwin additionally grew to become the quickest Indian to 450 wickets in Tests.

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sabyasachi chowdhury

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Feb 18, 2023