India defeated Australia, Clean sweep of series by 4-0

Man of the Match: Ravindra Jadeja

Man of the Sereis: Ravindrachandra Ashwin .

India defeated Australia by 6 wickets in 4th test match and captured “Border Gavaskar Trophy”. This is clear sweep of 4-0. As I remember it never happened in the history of India Australia test series before. It is also a miraculous comeback of Indian team form bad form. Few months ago, England had badly beaten Indian at home and after that India also lost three matches series against Pakistan by 2-1 at home.

Specialty of this series was toss, Australia won toss in all four matches and lost all matches. Indian side, few new faces got chance in test match and all they proved their talent either talks about Murli Vijan, Cheteshwar Pujara,  Rohit Dhawan or Ravindra Jadeja, they played brilliantly. I would like to appreciate Ravindar Jadeja who got change to play test match first time. He proved himself as an all rounder, which India need, and emerged as 2nd highest wicket taker of the series.

Now talk about 4th Test match. Australia won the toss and elected to bat first, once again their decision proved wrong when entire team got all out at 262 runs in first inning. That time it seemed that once again Australia surrendered but they did brilliant bowing and did strong came back in game. Bowler got advantage of pitch which became dangerous and finished Indian inning at 272 with a small lead of 10 runs.

But the wicket was getting tough to play after each passing day and making a single run become very difficult consequently Australia batsmen failed to face Indian bowler on third day and entire team finished at 164 runs after lunch in 2nd inning. Condition would have been worse if Siddle had not made brilliant 51 runs in first inning and 50 runs in second inning. Australia set target of 155 runs to win.

This target was not easy to chase on this pitch. The pitch had great turn and irregular bounce. Sometimes bow kept low too, so this little target of 155 runs was tough to get, but Indian batsmen played brilliantly and chased target after losing 4 wickets. Once this target looked difficult when Sachin Tendulkar got out and Australia had made great pressure on Indian batsman and to make 25 runs looked difficult but Dhoni played some good shots and finished the game  by a boundary.  

  

India won the series by 4-0. Ravinder Chandra Ashwin declared Man of the series for stupendous performance in entire series with 29 wickest, Ravindra Jadeja declared Man of the match for brilliant bowling in last match as well as Murli Vijay emerged as highest scorer in the series with 460 runs.

Score Board:

Australia:

1st inning: 262 runs Siddle 51 runs

2nd inning: 144 runs, Siddle 50 runs

Jadeja 5 wickets

India:

1st inning: 172 runs,

2nd inning: 158 runs, Pujara 80 runs.