IND v AUS: Big change in the timing of Boxing Day Test, what time will the match start on the fourth day, the weather will be like this
Melbourne Cricket Ground
IND vs AUS, 4th Test Day 4 Timing: The Boxing Day Test between India and Australia started on 26 December in Melbourne. Host Australia dominated the first two days due to their excellent batting. Australia team managed to score a big score of 474 runs in the first innings thanks to the brilliant century of Steve Smith. In response to this, Team India had a very bad start. Half of Team India returned to the pavilion with a score of 159 runs. However, on the third day, Nitish Reddy and Washington Sundar not only took charge of the Indian innings but also managed to take the score beyond 350. Washington Sundar was out after scoring a half-century while Nitish Reddy returned unbeaten after scoring his century in Test cricket.
rain caused disturbance
The third day’s play ended very quickly as the match was interrupted first due to bad lighting and then due to rain, about an hour before stumps were officially declared. Nitish Reddy was celebrating after scoring a century when the game was stopped due to bad light at 11.55 am IST. After about 10 minutes it also started raining. We were still waiting for the rain to stop when at around 12.20 it was announced that the day’s play would be over.
big change in time
The play on the third day could have gone till 1:15 PM but the play ended 1 hour before the scheduled time. In this way about 1 hour of play was wasted on the third day. Now this wasted time will be compensated on the fourth day. For this, the game will start half an hour earlier tomorrow. That means the game will start at 4:30 in the morning. That means fans will have to sacrifice their sleep once again. Let us tell you, on the first day of the Boxing Day Test, the toss took place at 4.30 pm while the game started at 5 pm. Now it will be interesting to see how much the Indian team is able to reduce the lead with the remaining 1 wicket.
the weather will be like this
Talking about the weather of the fourth day, according to Accuweather, there is no possibility of rain on Sunday, December 29. Although it is expected to remain cloudy, no rain is predicted throughout the day in Melbourne on Sunday. Apart from this, there is no hope of rain on Monday, the fifth day of the match.
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