Ranchi, March 16: Ravindra Jadeja took a brilliant reflex catch off his own ball to give India their first breakthrough in the third Test match against Australia here on Thursday (March 16).
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Jadeja, who also happens to be the No.1 Test bowler (joint with Ravichandran Ashwin), removed opener David Warner (19) in the very first over he bowled.
It was a full toss delivery which Warner attempted hitting for a boundary, but the ball landed in Jadeja's safe pair of hands.
Jadeja earned the wicket as the reflex time for the catch was very quick. It all happened within a fraction of seconds as Warner stared in surprised after getting dismissed in such a fashion.
Watch the brilliant catch here:
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Matt Renshaw (44) was going well and looked set to complete a hat-trick of half-centuries before falling six runs short with Umesh Yadav dismissing the opener in his second spell after a smart change of ends by Virat Kohli.
India's in-form off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin then dismissed Shaun Marsh (2) after India brilliantly used the DRS in their favour.
At lunch, skipper Steve Smith was batting on 34 and Peter Handscomb gave him company at six.
Earlier India made one change, bringing back a fit-again Murali Vijay in place of Abhinav Mukund.
The Aussie made the two forced changes with Glenn Maxwell and Pat Cummins figuring in the playing XI in place of the injured Mitch Marsh and Mitchell Starc.
The four-Test series is locked 1-1 with the last match in Dharmasala from March 25-29.
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