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Follow UsThe biggest headline of the Gabba Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 has been rain. It has disturbed play on two out of the three days so far. But even after only 134.1 overs were bowled out of a possible 270 on the first three days, India are in danger of losing the game. The visitors trail by 394 runs with only six wickets in hand in the first innings.
There are chances of Australia enforcing a follow-on and then trying to get a result in the last two days. The Aussies, no doubt, will be in a race against time, but Marsh feels his side are in a pretty advantageous position.
“We hold a few more cards than they do. Tomorrow is going to dictate what happens if we can get the ball in the right areas and take a few early ones. That brings in the extra card of the follow-on,” Mitchell Starc told ABC Radio after the end of Day 3.
“When you score 450 and have a team four for 50, you hold all the cards. We've certainly got the options there. It's just going to see how it plays out in that first session (of day four), I'd say,” added the 34-year-old.
Mitchell Marsh, who has been a regular in the Test team since his comeback in the Ashes in England in 2023, feels that he is now nervous to field at his favourite position, gully, because of the man he's replaced there - Cameron Green, arguably the best gully fielder in the entire world. Notably, on day three, the Western Australian took a blinder at gully to dismiss Shubman Gill.
“Since I have come back to the side, I get the gully. Cameron Green is probably the best there. So I feel nervous because Greeny is so good, I like square leg too,” he said said in the press conference at the end of Day 3 in Brisbane.
Virat Kohli has not been able to get going in four out of his five innings Down Under. But according to Marsh, there is no extra planning that goes on separately for Kohli, although it always feels nice for the Aussies to see his back early in the game.
“He is a very big wicket, one of the greatest players ever,” Marsh said about the impact of Kohli’s dismissal on the team.
The Western Australian further opined that seeing matches get washed out is not at all a likeable scenario in such a big series. He hoped for the weather to hold up across the final two days of the ongoing Test.
“We were always asking about radar checking the weather. Hope it (rain) stays away for next two days,” he said about the rain, before adding, “Big series, also for spectators. I think there can be a result. Two days to go, I think there's still plenty of time for a result. There is always rain but I hope the sunshine comes. It can happen in Brisbane.”
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