![]() Ravindra Jadeja marked his comeback in India's whites for the first time since July 2022 by picking a fifer that included the all-important wickets of Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne, both of whom he dismissed after Lunch on day one. Captain Rohit Sharma led the proceedings with the bat as he scored a 15th Test fifty, an innings laden with nine boundaries and one maximum. Earlier, the hosts had managed to bundle Australia out for 177. India finished day one of the Nagpur Test at 77/1 after 24 overs of batting. Ravindra Jadeja on the left (AP) and Rohit Sharma on the right. India vs Australia 1st Test, Day 2 highlights Read Matthew Hayden and Graham Gooch’s masterclass on how to play the sweep shot in Indian turners. Pujara’s was a weak effort really, and too horizontal to be playing to that ball on the rough. ![]() So, all these decisions you have to take in the semi-premeditative shot and based on what comes out of the hand. “The bat also comes out differently for a lap or when you want to keep it along the ground and where do you want to hit it – behind square or front of square. “If you want to hit the ball for a six, then you go from low to high with the bat flow,” Gooch says. You can access the areas safely,” Gooch says. It helps keep the ball down somewhat and this top-to-bottom sweep also allows a batsman to rotate strike. “You can handle the extra bounce with this movement – swooping down from the top. Second: The bat-smashing-the-top-of-the-ball sweep that Gooch and Hayden would often play. There are two ways to sweep: The bat-parallel-to-the-ground sweep, as played often by Root who sweeps the entire arc from wide mid-on to backward square-leg after crouching really low with the bat coming from the side of the ball, almost ![]() Joe Root had got out to a sweep and Gooch had held court. Graham Gooch explained why in a chat during England’s last Test series in India. The ball was well outside the leg stump on the rough and Cheteshwar Pujara went for a horizontal sweep shot.
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