Dominant Australia A complete series victory

Australia A 349 (Bancroft 150, Ferguson 54, Aparajith 5-86, Ojha 4-107) and 62 for 0 (Khawaja 41*) beat India A 135 (Nair 50, Sandhu 3-25) and 274 (Mukund 59, Iyer 49, Sandhu 4-76, O'Keefe 4-88) by 10 wickets
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The senior Australian team faltered against England in the third Investec Test at Edgbaston but the Australia A team romped to a ten-wicket win to complete a 1-0 series victory at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. Chasing 61, openers Cameron Bancroft and Usman Khawaja ran down the target in 6.1 overs.

At the end of the third day, Australia A captain Usman Khawaja had said: "It is pretty simple from my point of view." It turned out to be simple, so much so that the visitors needed only 51 minutes to wrap the game up with over two sessions to spare.

India A, who had begun the day at 267 for 6, added only seven runs to their overnight total before being wiped out for 274 in 88.3 overs. Gurinder Sandhu, who opened the attack on the final day, bowled three overs of offspin and took as many wickets to run through the tail.

Shreyas Gopal was the first to depart as Sandhu generated alarming bounce with his fifth ball, having the batsman lob the ball to Bancroft at forward short leg for a duck. Varun Aaron raced down the track and was stumped for 1 before Baba Aparajith was also foxed by the extra bounce.

Aparajith had received a lifeline when he was dropped on 29 at forward short leg off left-arm spinner Steve O'Keefe but could not convert his start into a substantial contribution. He was caught by Khawaja at backward short leg after adding one more run.

India A's innings ended when O'Keefe had Shardul Thakur tamely chipping to mid-off. Each of Sandhu's wickets in the second innings came through offspin while O'Keefe finished with four of his own.

Khawaja and Bancroft batted with purpose and intent, again. Khawaja laid down the marker when he ventured down the track and whipped Pragyan Ojha's fifth ball over mid-on for six. The next ball was firmly reverse-swept to the third-man boundary. Khawaja also banished Pragyan Ojha to deep midwicket with a powerful slog-sweep while Bancroft showed off his adept footwork like he did during his 150 in the first innings, which had set the game up.

Bancroft put the seal on a thumping win when he came down and launched Pragyan Ojha over long-off, which summed up Australia A's domination throughout the second unofficial Test.