Ajinkya Rahane scored 89 and Shardul Thakur scored 51 runs to form a 109-run partnership for the seventh wicket in the final of the World Test Championship (WTC Final). Due to this, India was able to make a comeback to some extent on the third day on Friday.
But Australia strengthened their position by scoring 120 runs for four wickets in the second innings. Australia, who scored 469 runs in the first innings, took India’s first innings for 296 runs and took a lead of 173 runs, taking their overall lead to 296 runs at the end of the day’s play.
Shardul Thakur has equaled Australia’s great batsman Sir Don Bradman in this match. Shardul came to the crease after the dismissal of KS Bharat in the very first over on the third day. Many balls of Australian bowlers hit his body but Shardul did not give up and hit Fifty.
He scored 50+ in the third consecutive innings at the Oval ground. Among overseas batsmen, Sir Don Bradman and Allan Border of Australia were able to do this before him.
In 2021, the Indian team was on a tour of England for the Test series. The fourth Test of the series was played at the Oval ground. Shardul had scored fifty in both the innings of the match. In the first innings, he hit 57 runs in just 36 balls with the help of 7 fours and 3 sixes.
It was also the highest score by an Indian batsman in the innings. He had scored fifty in just 32 balls. No batsman on the soil of England has been able to score fifty in fewer balls than this. In the second innings of the match too, he hit 60 runs off 72 balls.
