R Ashwin picks up six wickets, India beat Australia by 75 runs

Hazlewood took the prize wickets of Abhinav Mukund, skipper Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja yesterday and dismissed Pujara, Ravichandran Ashwin (4) and Umesh Yadav (1) in the fourth morning.

Australia’s chase started brightly enough and at 4-101 looked to have the upper hand.

It takes a special innings to be declared man of the match in a Test that was dominated by bowlers, but KL Rahul had two priceless innings which ensured India put up respectable totals on the board.

“It doesn’t matter, this is Bangalore, so I thought I must tell him that he got hit off me, in the first innings, on the helmet”, said Ashwin.

– Ashwin has registered 25 instances of five wickets or more in an innings in 47 Tests, emulating Harbhajan Singh’s feat of 25 instances in 103 Tests.

In addition, he stitched the first 100-run stand of the series with Ajinkya Rahane, leading India’s resurgence.

The off-spinner scalped the wickets of opener David Warner, Peter Handscomb, Mitchell Marsh, wicketkeeper-batsman Matthew Wade, Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon en route to victory. When Ashwin dismissed Mitchell Starc in the 2nd innings in Bengaluru Test, who caused some trouble to the Indian bowlers in the first innings.

Many pundits expected India to sweep the four-test series but its run of 20 unbeaten tests at home ended in the upset loss to Australia at Pune.

“I love challenging myself against the best“, Lyon said.

– Steven Smith’s captaincy record in Tests reads as – 12 wins and 6 losses apart from four drawn games out of 22 played – winning % 54.54. We have got the belief in the team, in that change-room, it is an unbelievable feeling at the moment. “We are confident that we will do well“, Pujara said after second day’s play.

Starc couldn’t land the hat-trick, but Hazlewood (6-67) followed up with the crucial wicket of Pujara, denied a century after the bowler landed the ball on a deviant patch of turf before it kicked up onto the corner of the bat, spooning up to Mitchell Marsh at gully. After an embarrassing loss against Australia in Pune, the Indian cricket team defeated the Aussies by 75 runs on a hard surface at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangaluru today.

India manages to win the match and level the series 1-1 with next match in Ranchi, let us see what transpires in this series with the upcoming match.