Shubman Gill took advantage of this opportunity and hit the second century of his Test career. However, in the end it was Nathan Lyon who took his wicket.
Ahmedabad: The way Australia kept the Indian bowlers on the field for a long time on the first two days of the fourth Test, India Also troubled Australia a lot on the third day of the match and yearned for wickets. Australia, however, created a few chances as well and one such chance was created by off-spinner Nathan Lyon against Shubman Gill but a rule took away the chance of his wicket and Lion started questioning the umpire.
On Saturday, March 11, at the Narendra Modi Stadium, the Indian team started its first innings with a score of 36 runs. Captain Rohit Sharma returned to the pavilion in the first session itself after hitting some good shots. However, before Rohit’s dismissal, Australia got a chance against Shubman Gill and LBW was appealed. Still the umpire did not give out because Gill’s height saved him.
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DRS also could not help
This incident happened in the 18th over of the Indian innings. Defended on the front foot against the off break ball from Nathan Lyon but the ball hit the pad and LBW was appealed. The umpire gave it not out but Australia took DRS and here Gill got the benefit of his long legs.
In the replays, it was shown that the ball was on the line of off-stump and was hitting the stump as well. The bus impact was outside the off-stump but more importantly, Gill’s front foot was outside the radius of more than 3 metres.
This is where the rule of DRS is that if the impact is more than 3 meters away then the result of DRS ball tracking will not be accepted as its technology cannot track that distance accurately. In such a situation, it cannot be considered correctly. Therefore, despite the ball hitting the stump, the decision went in favor of Gill. Now this thing became exasperating to Nathan Lion and he started questioning the umpire for some time, but he had already got the answer.
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did a great job by scoring a century
However, in the last session of the day, Lion finally took the wicket of Gill, but before that he had scored an excellent century. Gill hit his first and second career century against Australia. Gill scored 128 runs in 235 balls and put Team India in a good position.