Shreyas Iyer stroked his way to an unbeaten half-century in an otherwise unimpressive batting display by India 'A' in reply to Australia's first-innings total of 469 for seven. The batsman unbeaten at the other end with Iyer, who has faced 93 balls in 147 minutes' stay, was another youngster - Rishabh Pant of Delhi - who was on 3. All the sixes were hit over long-on as Iyer, who is 15 runs short of his ninth first-class hundred in 38 games, danced down the track. Yesterday skipper Steve Smith and Shaun Marsh hit individual hundreds in impressive fashion to be followed. One-down Iyer started his innings with a first-ball six over long on off Lyon while Panchal grew in confidence after his early trouble against Bird.

Source: dna February 18, 2017 13:07 UTC