Published 16:50 IST, February 17th 2023

India vs Australia: R Ashwin warns Marnus Labuschagne, Aussie batsman avoids any risk

In the ongoing 2nd Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin warned Marnus Labuchagne while he was walking out of the crease.

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Team India are playing Australia in second Test of Border-Gavaskar Trophy at New Delhi. Ravichandran Ashwin is one of greatest bowlers of Test cricket and has one of sharpest brains in game. Ashwin's match awareness is often lauded by cricket experts as he always keeps an eye on batsmen's movement. 

Ashwin warns Labuschagne 

In ongoing second Test match in New Delhi Ashwin gave ar such example of his match awareness. Ashwin while bowling in 19th over of Australia innings suddenly stopped after completing his bowling action. Ashwin saw Marnus Labuschagne walking out of crease and warned him for same. To avoid running out at n-striker's end, Labuschagne quickly went back to his crease.

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After event, it didn't take much time for Ashwin to remove Labuschagne and dismissed both Marnus Labuschagne and Steve Smith in of three balls. 

Playing Indian spinners has always been a tough task for Australian batsmen and y have always struggled against Indian spinners. R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja both destroyed Australia batting lineup in ir respective innings which has once again put a question mark on ir technique to play spin. 

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Indian bowlers after this didn't take much time to wrap up Australia innings as y were bowled out for 263. 

Australia were handed over a humiliating innings and 132-run defeat in Nagpur and y are under a lot of pressure before second Test match. Australia's batting lineup was brutally exposed by Indian spinners in Nagpur Test as y were destroyed by Ravindra Jadeja in first innings and by R Ashwin in second innings. 

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Australia have never won a series in India since 2004 and have also lost to m in previous three instances of Border-Gavaskar Trophy. last time Team India met Australia y had defeated m in ir home den by a margin of 2-1. 

Team India's confidence would be high after defeating Australia convincingly in Nagpur Test. second Test of Border-Gavaskar Trophy is being played at Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi and Team India already are 1-0 ahead in series.

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16:51 IST, February 17th 2023