1st Test: India vs Australia at Adelaide, Dec 06, 2018
India won by 31 runs
India 250/10 (88) & 307/10 (106.5)
Australia 235/10 (98.4) & 291/10 (119.5)
RR: 2.43
Last 12 Balls: . 1 1 1 4 1 | . . . . W
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Current Partnership: 7 runs, 5.3 overs, RR: 1.27 (Travis Head, Tim Paine )
Last Wicket: Josh Hazlewood 13(43)
Pujara is the Man of the Match
Virat Kohli (IND): These things happen in Tests, ups, and downs through a game. You need to just stay calm. Odds were stacked against them. They fought really well but we executed our plans well and got that last wicket which was intending to get. I wouldn't say I was cool as ice but you just don't try to show it. Jasprit was getting worked up in his last over but I just told him to relax. Super proud, to have four bowlers and take 20 wickets is a great achievement. Something that we haven't done in the past. Shows us batsmen that if we step up, we will be gunning for a win in every Test match. Collectively we were the better team and deserved to win. Priceless from Pujara, we were down and out at lunch on day 1. His grit and determination brought us back in it. We always knew that runs on the board would make a home side tentative. Any lead was gold and we got 15. In the second innings again, he and Rahane batted well. I think our lower middle order and lower order could have done better. We could have added another 30-35 runs more which could have taken the game totally beyond Australia. So these are things that we have to think about going to Perth but if someone had told me before the series that I would be 1-0 up as soon we started the series, I would have taken it with both hands.
Tim Paine (AUS): It's pretty shattering really. Proud of the fight from the lower order. A well-deserved win for India. We thought we could win, no doubt about that, we saw how the pitch is playing and told ourselves we are gonna dig deep, but unfortunately, myself, Travis and Shaun couldn't bat long as long as we should have. That's (Pujara's innings) the difference between the two sides. Really hard to get him (Pujara) out. We gotta cope with the belief that we are going to win this Test series, we just need someone in our top six to go big. My finger is fine.
India won by 31 runs and lead the series with 1-0
119.5
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Over 119.5 Ravichandran Ashwin bowls a quicker arm ball to J Hazlewood, out Caught by Lokesh Rahul! Hazlewood just couldn't resist. Thrown up in the air for the drive, he takes the bait and then gets floored by the turn. Rahul takes a superb at second slip.
119.4
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Over 119.4 Ravichandran Ashwin bowls it flat in the air to J Hazlewood, no run, stays inside the crease and defends it to point.
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Over 119.3 Ravichandran Ashwin bowls it flat in the air to J Hazlewood, no run, gets forward and defends it to silly-point.
