 "What is the highest target successfully chased at MCG? Revisiting India’s 4th innings record at this venue")
Despite a heroic fightback spearheaded by pacers Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj, the former joining a pantheon of fast-bowling greats after joining the 200-wicket club in Tests , India were staring at a difficult chase in the fourth Test against Australia in Melbourne.
Australia suffered a mini-collapse in the afternoon session, going from 80/2 to 91/6 with Bumrah collecting three wickets in two overs and becoming the only bowler with 200 or more Test wickets with an average under 20.
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Marnus Labuschagne and skipper Pat Cummins, however, stood tall and stitched together a handy little seventh-wicket partnership that was worth 57. Cummins battled on even after the former was trapped LBW off Siraj’s bowling shortly after tea, with pace colleague Mitchell Starc getting run-out at the non-striker’s end just three overs later.
The Australian skipper was eventually caught by his Indian counterpart Rohit Sharma at slip off Ravindra Jadeja, but had added 41 crucial runs to his team’s second innings total till then, with Australia’s lead closing in on the 300-mark.
What is the highest target successfully chased down in Tests at the MCG?
England’s successful chase of a mammoth 332-run target during their 1928-29 tour Down Under remains the highest successful chase at this venue till date. It’s worth noting, however, that the next seven entries in the list of highest successful Test chases at the MCG happened in 1962 or earlier.
Impact Shorts
More ShortsWhen it comes to Tests since 2000, Australia’s successful chase of the 231-run target set by England in the 2013-14 Ashes is the highest. That, in fact, is the only successful 200-plus chase at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in the last six decades.
What is India’s highest fourth-innings score at the ‘G’?
India are yet to cross the 200-run mark when it comes to their fourth innings score at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, with their score of 195 in the second Test in 1999 being their highest till date. Their only successful chase at this venue was when they chased down a target of 70 with eight wickets to spare in 2020 to level the series 1-1.
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