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Mohammed Shami injury: Watch Pat Cummins’ short ball retires hurt Shami; 36 becomes India’s lowest Test score

Dixit Bhargav
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Mohammed Shami injury: Watch Pat Cummins' short ball retires hurt Shami; 36 becomes India's lowest Test score

Mohammed Shami injury: The Indian fast bowler got hit on his right elbow by a brutal bouncer from Pat Cummins in Adelaide.

During the third day of the first Test of the ongoing India’s tour of Australia in Adelaide, India fast bowler Mohammed Shami got retired hurt after getting hit on his right elbow by a brutal short delivery from Australia vice-captain Pat Cummins.

It all happened on the second delivery of the 22nd over when Shami couldn’t sway away from Cummins’ delivery directed at his body. Right after coping the blow, the right-hand batsman was visibly in a significant amount of pain.

Having received immediate medical attention, Shami once intended to continue batting but the discomfort was significant enough for him to call for the physio again. After the physio’s second examining, the 30-year old player eventually decided to walk-off.

With India scoring 36 in the second innings, the same has become their lowest-ever total in Test cricket breaking a 46-year old record of bundling out for 42 against England at the Lord’s in 1974.

Expected to build on their 62-run overnight lead, the visiting batsmen register a mammoth batting collapse in the first session at the Adelaide Oval to give Australia a 90-run target to win the match.

In what was his eighth Test five-wicket haul, Australia pacer Josh Hazlewood picking bowling figures of 5-3-8-5 not only made him the pick of the Australian bowlers but also saw him crossing the 200-wicket mark. Before Hazlewood started the assault, it was Cummins (10.2-4-21-4) who commenced the carnage.

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Dixit Bhargav

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Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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