Vikrant Shekhawat : Feb 28, 2024, 06:00 AM
IND vs ENG: In the coming few days, the eyes of cricket fans all over the world are going to be on Dharamshala. After all, why not, the last match of the series being played between India and England is to be held here, which will start from March 7. However, there is still about 10 days left, so the teams have not reached there yet nor have the preparations started. But in the meantime you must know one thing about Dharamshala. That is, till now only one player has scored a Test century here and that too is not an Indian batsman.Only one test match has been played in Dharamshala so farOnly one Test match has been played so far at the Dharamshala Stadium of Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association. The only Test between India and Australia was played here in March 2017. Which the Indian team had managed to win by 8 wickets. Before and after this, not a single Test has been played here. But now from March 7 again an exciting cricket match will be played here. Well, this is a later matter, but you will be surprised to know that even though India defeated Australia, no batsman from India was able to score a century. Australia's Steve Smith had played a century innings. It is another matter that he was not able to make his team win.Australia's Steve Smith played an inning of 111 runs.In the match, Australia batted first and touched the mark of 300 runs in the first innings. This included Steve Smith's 111 runs. Which he made on 173 balls. During this period, 14 fours came from his bat. David Warner and Matthew Wade also scored half-centuries. After this, when Team India came out to bat, it scored 332 runs in its first innings. No one may have scored a century in this, but KL Rahul gave the lead to the Indian team by playing useful innings of 60 runs, Cheteshwar Pujara 57 runs and Ravindra Jadeja 63 runs.Ravindra Jadeja became player of the matchAfter this, when the second innings started, the entire Australian team collapsed for only 137 runs and no half-century came from the team. Team India achieved the target of 106 runs by losing only 2 wickets. KL Rahul once again played a match-winning inning and returned unbeaten on 51 runs. Whereas Rahane scored 38 runs. Ravindra Jadeja took one wicket in the first innings and three wickets in the second and also scored 63 runs for Australia, hence he was adjudged the best player of the match.