The idea that the Nagpur pitch had been prepared to target Australia’s left-handers went untested as they found other, swifter ways to get out
fter the prelude came the test. Nagpur’s strange chessboard of a pitch, watered and prepared in different sections that may or may not have been related to the relevant strengths and vulnerabilities of the Australian and Indian teams, eventually had to reveal how it was going to play. On the first day of the Border-Gavaskar Test series, the possibility that the dry patches were going to specifically ruin Australia’s left-handed batters didn’t come to pass.
Shami used the area back of a length, angling a ball in at Warner from around the wicket and carving it away off the seam to beat the bat, into a searing deflection from Warner’s back thigh and rocketing his off-stump into backward-spinning oblivion. Within the first 13 balls of the match, Australia were 2 for 2, a score that means the same thing no matter what country you read it in.
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