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IND vs AUS: India 188 and 141 for 6 (Pant 61, Boland 4-42 and Starc 3-39), leading Australia 181 (Webster 57, Prasidh 3-42, Siraj 3 -51) by 145 runs. After the Indian bowlers, Rishabh Pant’s passion has made the Sydney Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy exciting. Pant did get out after scoring a half-century but the way this pitch is behaving, anything can happen on the third day of the match. The Indian team has scored 141 runs for six wickets till the end of the day’s play, in which they have a lead of 145 runs.
IND vs AUS, Day 2 Overview
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India had a bad start in the second innings as well. Scott Boland maintained his dominance in this innings as well and took the first wicket by bowling KL Rahul. After some time, he also showed Yashasvi Jaiswal the way to the pavilion. After some time, he also increased India’s troubles by getting Virat Kohli caught behind the wicket. Bo Webster also got his first Test wicket in the form of Shubman Gill.
India had lost four wickets for 78 runs and now it was time for Rishabh Pant. Pant expressed his intentions by hitting a six on the very first ball of Boland. Pant sent the balls wherever he wanted. To break the rhythm of Boland, who was looking in rhythm, he came forward and attacked him.
He completed his half-century in his own style by hitting two consecutive sixes on Mitchell Starc. On the other hand, Ravindra Jadeja was fully supporting him. However, he lost his wicket to Cummins due to running the bat on a fifth stump ball. After some time, Nitish Kumar Reddy also missed the time while trying to play a chip shot and got caught at mid-off.
Bowler’s dominance in Sydney IND vs AUS Test
Earlier, at the start of the day’s play, the Indian bowlers continued their amazing performance. The first victim of the day was Marnus Labuschagne, who was caught behind the wicket by Jasprit Bumrah. Mohammad Siraj, who has not been in form in this series so far, gave the Indian team two successes in the same over when first he got Sam Constaas caught in the gully, and then in the same over he got Travis Head caught behind the wicket.
Meanwhile, Prasidh Krishna, who was playing his first match, also got into form soon and got Steve Smith caught out with an excellent ball. After some time, he also dismissed Alex Carey. This was a time when captain Bumrah had gone out of the stadium for a scan due to injury and everyone was eagerly waiting for his report.
On the other hand, debutant Bo Webster had already settled down at the crease and captain Pat Cummins was also standing with him to support him. But the trio of Siraj, Prasidh, and Nitish Kumar Reddy took charge.
Nitish sent Cummins and Mitchell Starc to the pavilion in his two overs. After this, Prasidh also sent Webster, who had scored a half-century, to the pavilion. Siraj took the last wicket and Australia’s innings was reduced to just 181 runs.
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