WATCH: Marnus Labuschagne and Ravichandran Ashwin involve in a intense banter in first session of Nagpur Test

It’s almost near impossible that there would be no intense moments in either of the edition of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. A similar has been seen only in the first session of the ongoing Nagpur Test. The moment came when Ashwin bowled the last ball of his first over and the ball bounced high onto the pad for Labuschagne.

Subsequently, both players had some hand movements for each other and the visuals of this moment were immediately noticed. The commentators also started a banter on this reaction-sharing between Ashwin and Labuschagne and the video of this moment is now making rounds on social just as soon as a Twitter user shared it.

Here’s the video:

This moment 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/oGgJa6VCJc

— Rohit Sharma (@rohitsharma2503) February 9, 2023

Speaking of the ongoing match Test series opener in Nagpur so far, the pair of Marnus Labuschagne and Steve Smith has provided stability to the visitors after two early blows. Notably, the Indian pace duo of Mohammed Siraj and Mohammed Shami sent both the openers back to the pavilion only on the score of 2 runs in 2.1 overs.

At the time of filling this copy, Australia have scored 84 runs for the loss of two wickets having Smith and Labuschagne there in the middle. The latter is just one run away from his half-century and is on 49 runs with eight boundaries alongside the former skipper who is currently batting on the individual score of 25 runs.

Here’s a look at the playing XI of Australia for the Nagpur Test:

David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Matt Renshaw, Peter Handscomb, Alex Carey (WK), Pat Cummins (C), Scott Boland, Nathan Lyon,  Todd Murphy.

India playing XI for the first Test against Australia:

Rohit Sharma (c), KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Srikar Bharat (WK), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj.