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Batting first, the visitors were bowled out for 300 with Kuldeep Yadav taking 4-68. Australia skipper Steven Smith’s 111 turned out to be the only century of the match while David Warner (56) and Matthew Wade (57) got half-centuries. In response, India posted 332, thanks mainly to half-centuries by Ravindra Jadeja (63), KL Rahul (60) and Cheteshwar Pujara (57), but once again it was a spinner who dominated the show. Australian offie Nathan Lyon picked up an impressive fifer (5-92). The visitors then folded up for a mere 137 with India spinners Ravindra Jadeja (3-24) and Kuldeep (3-29) doing most of the damage. The Indians thereafter easily chased down the victory target of 106 with eight wickets to spare.

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Thirty-two wickets fell in this encounter, but considering there were two runs outs, out of 30 wickets picked by bowlers, as many as 18 went to spinners.
While Kuldeep will be looking to repeat his 2017 heroics, Ashwin and Jadeja, who are joint leaders in the wicket-taking charts in this series (17 scalps) along with two others bowlers—England’s left-arm spinner Tom Hartley and India pacer Jasprit Bumrah—will also be keen to pick up wickets galore.