'One way to get your opening spot back,' quips Hogg as Shaw nearly injures Hitman

With Team India's tour of Australia being marred with injuries, visitors were on brink of losing ar player on Friday morning at Gabba during final Test. After Navdeep Saini walked off with a niggle, Prithvi Shaw had been brought into field as a substitute. young opening batsman has faced a lot of backlash over his poor performances in first two Tests, after which he had been dropped. 

However, Shaw found himself at receiving end yet again despite being excluded from playing XI. During India's fielding on Day 1, as Matw Wade tried to sneak a single, Shaw rushed to run him out and fiercely threw ball at stumps, which instead hit India's prized batsman and vice-captain Rohit Sharma on his abdomen. While opener did t complain of an injury, Shaw invited netizens' wrath upon himself with his fierce but misaimed throw. Sharma continued to field after a brief pause.  incident also led to former Australian cricketer Brad Hogg quipping that Shaw was trying to get his opening spot back for next series. 

Taking to Twitter, Hogg shared a video of incident and wrote, "One way to get your opening spot back for next series!"

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Saini limps off field 

India could be dealt with ar major blow as pacer Navdeep Saini complained of pain in his groin area forcing him to limp off field on Day one of 4th Test against Australia at Brisbane. Playing Border-Gavaskar Trophy decider at hosts' fort Gabba, India are already faced with sufficient trouble by fielding an inexperienced side due to a series of injuries to experienced stars over last two games. Providing an update on Navdeep Saini, BCCI informed that pacer was being monitored by BCCI's medical team after he complained of pain in his groin. young gun has been taken for scans and an official comment is yet awaited on his injury. 

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Australia eye a mammoth total

coin once again landed in Australian Test skipper Tim Paine's favour and for third straight time, he elected to bat first. Aussies lost both ir openers David Warner & Marcus Harris early before ir famed top-order duo of Marnus Labuschagne and Steven Smith carried out rescue act with a 70-run stand for fourth wicket before latter was dismissed.

Labuschagne did get some support from middle-order batsman Matw Wade (45) but it was South African-born cricketer who took matters into his own hands and went after Indian bowlers. He got a reprieve when he was batting on 37 after he was dropped by India's stand-in-captain Ajinkya Rahane at gully. 26-year-old made visitors pay for and tched up his fifth Test century and just when it appeared that number three batsman was unstoppable, he was dismissed for 108 after mistiming a pull shot and was caught behind by Rishabh Pant off T Natarajan. Australia are 274/5 at stumps on Day 1. 

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