Wriddhiman Saha showed his magic behind the stumps to send back Australia’s star batsman Marnus Labuschagne in the first s♋ession o𝔉f Day 4 in the ongoing third Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG).
The Indian wicketkeeper, who has been on the field as a substitute for injured Rishabh Pant, took a brilliant diving catch on his left side to remove the danger m💮an.
It all happened in the 47th over of Australia’s second innings bowled by India pacer Navdeep Saini. Labuschagne tried to push the ball moving down the leg towards the fine-leg boundary, but Saha’s brilliance towards his left cut-short the former’s innings. Labuschagne departed on 73 after facing 118 deliveries.
Here’s the video:
Brilliant
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Saha played the first match of the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Adelaide but was not picked for the next two games. Pant, who replaced Saha, coped a blow on his left-hand on Day 3 of the Sydney Test while batting and didn’t take the field during Australia’s second innings.
Pant was taken to a local hospital for scans, and there is no official update on his participation in the remaining game. All-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, who fractured his left-thumb faced while batting in India’s first innings, has been ruled out of the remainder of the series.
