Indian National Cricket Team young player Ravi Bishnoi rattled the stumps of Australian National Cricket Team opening batsman Josh Philippe in the fourth T20I of the five-match series at the Shaheed Veer Narayan International Stadium Singh in Raipur on Friday, December 1.
Ravi Bishnoi has performed quite well in the ongoing series against the Australians. Before today’s match, he picked up 6 wickets and did not bowl any costly spells in the second and third T20Is.
In the 4th T20I, he began his dominance by dismissing Phillippe in the first delivery of his spell. He bowled a very long ball and Josh Philippe tried to sweep but missed completely and saw his stumps break.
Josh Philippe was forced to walk back to the dugout after scoring 8 runs off 7 balls, including 2 fours, and leaving Australia reeling at 40/1.
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First ball of his spell and Ravi Bishnoi attacks ⚡️😎
Eliminate Josh Philippe for 8.
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Earlier, Australia won the toss and opted to bowl first in the match. A total of 9 changes were made to the teams for the match: the hosts made 4 and the visitors made 5.
India dropped Tilak Varma, Prasidh Krishna, Arshdeep Singh and Ishan Kishan and replaced them with Shreyas Iyer, Mukesh Kumar, Deepak Chahar and Jitesh Sharma. Elsewhere, Chris Green, Ben Dwarshuis, Josh Philippe, Ben McDermott and Matthew Short replaced Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Nathan Ellis, Kane Richardson and Josh Inglis in the Australian team.
Batting first, Indian openers Yashasvi Jaiswal and Ruturaj Gaikwad gave the team a good start. However, after his dismissal, India lost quick wickets before Rinku Singh and Jitesh Sharma played absolutely outstanding innings to help India put a good total on the board.
The Men in Blue scored 174 runs for the loss of 9 wickets. For Australia, Ben Dwarshuis was the pick of the bowlers as he took a three-wicket haul. Jason Behrendorff and Tanveer Sangha got two wickets each, while Aaron Hardie got one wicket.
Australia (playing XI): Josh Philippe, Travis Head, Ben McDermott, Aaron Hardie, Tim David, Matthew Short, Matthew Wade (w/c), Ben Dwarshuis, Chris Green, Jason Behrendorff, Tanveer Sangha
India (playing XI): Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Jitesh Sharma(w), Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Deepak Chahar, Avesh Khan, Mukesh Kumar.