Lower-order deserve a credit for faring well against Indian attack: Labuschagne

Melbourne: Australia batter Marnus Labuschagne credited the late effort of the lower-order for extending their lead in the ongoing fourth Test against India despite a resilient attack from the visiting pacers led by Jasprit Bumrah on Sunday.

“The perfect outcome for us would have probably looked like having a bowl tonight and putting them under pressure. But the way the wicket played and the way India bowled and came out and put us under pressure in those first 40 to 50 overs, that wasn’t an option for us,” Labuschagne was quoted as saying by the ICC.

“It became, let’s get as many runs as we can and that’s obviously creeping into a nice total now, but there was a time there where it could have been 250 or 270 (run lead) or maybe even less there for a bit. So I think we navigated that really well and the lower-order deserve a lot of credit, for how they managed that last part,” he added. IANS

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