{"id":307587,"date":"2018-12-30T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T07:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307587"},"modified":"2018-12-30T07:01:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T07:01:02","slug":"india-beat-australia-by-137-runs-in-melbourne-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-beat-australia-by-137-runs-in-melbourne-test\/","title":{"rendered":"India beat Australia by 137 runs in Melbourne test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-beat-australia-by-137-runs-in-melbourne-test\/india-australia\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-307588\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307588 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/india-australia-300x275.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"507\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/india-australia-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/india-australia-458x420.jpg 458w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/india-australia.jpg 491w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a>India took a\u00a02-1 lead in the four-match Test series\u00a0after beating Australia by 137 runs in the third test in Melbourne on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India will\u00a0retain the Border-Gavaskar trophy\u00a0even if the series is drawn level at Sydney as they have won the previous series at home in 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The first session of the fifth day was washed out and it took only 27 balls in the second session for India to take the final two Australian wickets. Jasprit Bumrah and Ishant Sharma completed the formalities in what turned out to be the\u00a0150th Test win for the Indian team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Australia was all out for 261 in 89.3 overs and India won the test match at MCG after 37 long years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Jasprit Bumrah was named the player of the match for his stupendous figures of 9-86. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India took a\u00a02-1 lead in the four-match Test series\u00a0after beating Australia by 137 runs in the third test in Melbourne on Sunday. India will\u00a0retain the Border-Gavaskar trophy\u00a0even if the series is drawn level at Sydney as they have won the previous series at home in 2017. The first session of the fifth day was washed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[2123,10457,574,10456],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307590,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307587\/revisions\/307590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}