Australia A rallied with the ball but India A are in a strong position with one day to play<\/p>\n
A flurry of wickets to Todd Murphy and some tight bowling from a pair of South Australians have kept Australia A in the first four-day match against India A in Puducherry.<\/p>\n
Staring down a first-innings deficit of 163, Murphy’s four wickets and two apiece to Brendan Doggett and Liam Scott saw the hosts bowled out for 199.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Chasing 363 to win, Nathan McSweeney (23no) and Peter Handscomb (0no) got to stumps with the score at 2-55 to kept the Aussies in the hunt.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Aussies wickets to fall were that of Campbell Kellaway, who was out lbw to Tushar Deshpande for a second ball duck, and Sam Konstas (20), who was out lbw (umpire’s call) for the second time in the match.\u00a0<\/p>\n
India A threatened to bat the tourists out of the game as Sai Sudharsan (39) and captain Devdutt Padikkal (59) put on a 68-run partnership for the second wicket.<\/p>\n
But when Murphy trapped the Gujarat Titans superstar lbw, Australia regained the momentum.<\/p>\n
Todd Murphy has a smile as a dog invades the pitch \/\/ Cricket Association of Pondicherry media<\/p>\n
Jason Sangha took an excellent caught-and-bowled before Scott took back-to-back wickets, including that of Test player Padikkal, one of the five lbws in the innings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Murphy returned and took three wickets in as many overs as the Indians folded quickly. The final four wickets fell for 13 runs; the final nine wickets for 106 runs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brendan Doggett celebrates a breakthrough \/\/ Cricket Association of Pondicherry media<\/p>\n
Australia A men’s tour of India 2026<\/p>\n
1st four-day: Sep 22-25, Puducherry, 2pm AEST<\/a><\/p>\n 2nd four-day: Sep 29-Oct 2, Puducherry, 2pm AEST<\/a><\/p>\n Australia A four-day squad: Brendan Doggett, Jack Edwards, Peter Handscomb, Sam Harper, Liam Hatcher, Campbell Kellaway, Sam Konstas, Nathan McSweeney, Todd Murphy, Fergus O’Neill, Josh Philippe, Jhye Richardson, Corey Rocchiccioli, Jason Sangha, Liam Scott<\/p>\n India A four-day squad: Aman Mokhade, Ayush Pandey, Devdutt Padikkal (c), Sai Sudharsan (vc), Yash Rathod, Shaik Rasheed, Kumar Kushagra (wk), Shams Mulani, Tanush Kotian, Tushar Deshpande, Anshul Kamboj, Praful Hinge, Narayan Jagadeesan (wk), Nachiket Bhute, Vijaykumar Vyshak<\/p>\n 1st one-day: Oct 6, Puducherry, 3pm AEDT<\/a><\/p>\n 2nd one-day: Oct 9, Puducherry, 3pm AEDT<\/a><\/p>\n