0, 4, 0, 4: India A suffer horror collapse at MCG; Rahul, Easwaran fail opening test; Jurel impresses

While Rahul was listed for a middle-order spot, skipper Rohit Sharma’s imaginable lack successful the archetypal Border Gavaskar Trophy Test successful Perth meant the Karnataka batter was moved up to the opening spot, up of India A skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad.

Rahul fell for 4 disconnected arsenic galore deliveries aft helium was lured into a guardant propulsion by Boland, who extracted outside-edge to the wicket-keeper. Boland had earlier marked Rahul arsenic 1 of the targetted Indian batters for the summer. “I was fortunate to vessel to him successful a Test implicit successful India a mates of years agone but it’ll beryllium bully to play against him successful our backyard. He’s a world-class subordinate but idiosyncratic I deliberation we tin get connected apical of beauteous aboriginal and hopefully enactment connected apical of him for astir of the summer,” Boland was quoted arsenic saying by ESPNcricinfo up of the game.

Contending with Rahul for an opening spot successful the Perth Test is Abhimanyu Easwaran, who fell for a three-ball duck successful the opening implicit to Neser. Neser was successful enactment for a first-over hat-trick erstwhile helium bumped retired Sai Sudharsan archetypal shot and astir clipped Ruturaj Gaikwad disconnected the adjacent delivery.

Jurel cracks fifty

Though Devdutt Padikkal and Dhruv Jurel batted India to Lunch, the erstwhile fell aboriginal successful the 2nd sesson arsenic Neser bagged his 4th wicket. Only Wicket-keeper Jurel, who replaced Ishan Kishan successful the XI, stood gangly against the probing seam and bounce from the Australia A quicks.

India were reduced to 103 for 7 earlier Jurel brought up his half-century disconnected 118 deliveries with a six successful his maiden First Class innings successful Australia.