Legspinner

Both Kohli and Rahul watchfully played out Maxwell, but specialist legspinner Adam Zampa leaked too many runs against both batters once they settled into a 165-run match-winning partnership.

Rashid Khan, the Afghanistan legspinner and bowling ace of the Sunrisers Hyderabad team in IPL 2020, has said that he will not think about marriage until his country does not win the ICC Cricket World Cup.

After Richie Benaud, the Australian legspinner, played West Indies in two series in that period, he said Butcher was the most difficult of all West Indian batsmen to dismiss.

Debutant legspinner Mason Crane thought he had his first Test wicket in the last over before lunch, but his review for an lbw on Khawaja showed the bowler had overstepped for a no-ball.

In his more than 200 ODIs, this was the first time Kohli had been clean-bowled by a legspinner, so unerring had been his reading of the rotations.

Legspinner Yasir Shah ran through the tailenders with 3-45, finishing off the match by having Jon Holland caught in the slips on 3. Looking to hold out for more than two days for a draw, Australia began the day on 47-1.

With just 40-odd needed, Root gave the ball to his legspinner Adil Rashid, whose inclusion had created quite a divide in this country.