The flamboyant Indian all-rounder, Ravindra Jadeja avoided “disaster” as he pulled a stunning running catch off Ravichandran Ashwin’s bowling to send back Matthew Wade in the ongoing second Boxing-day Test match on Saturday. In the 13th over of the game, Ashwin beat Wade in flight as the Australian opener mistimed a lofted shot. 

Shubman Gill and Jadeja both went charging for the catch and ended in a collision, but fortunately for India, Jadeja kept his eyes on the ball and managed to hold on to the catch. Cricket Australia took to Twitter to share the video of the catch and captioned it as “Almost disaster! But Jadeja held his ground and held the catch!”

Almost disaster! But Jadeja held his ground and held the catch! @hcltech | #AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/SUaRT7zQGx

— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) December 26, 2020

Earlier on Day 1, the Australian captain, Tim Paine won the toss and decided to bat first at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Indian bowlers found their line and length from the word go as Jasprit Bumrah drew the first ball for the visitors in his third over to send Joe Burns packing for a duck.

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Wade kept playing his shots but as soon as Ajinkya Rahane decided to hand the ball to Ashwin, the left-handed batsman looked a bit dodgy in his approach.

Ashwin managed to get the wicket of Wade and then in his next over he also managed to get teh prized wicket of the veteran batsman, Steve Smith, the number one ranked Test batsman, for a duck, who has a tendency of playing big knocks against India.

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India finished the second session on top, restricting the hosts to 136 for five at Tea. Australia, who lead the four-match series 1-0, have fielded an unchanged XI. On the other hand, India has made four changes in total.