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Adelaide, 7 December (HS). Australia has strengthened its hold in the second Test (day-night) match being played here against India under the Border Gavaskar Trophy. The Australian team scored 337 runs in its first innings on the second day. Australia’s total lead on the basis of first innings is now 157 runs. Head scored 140 runs in 141 balls with the help of 17 fours and 4 sixes. Apart from Head, Marnus Labuschagne also played a brilliant half-century of 64 runs. India had scored 180 runs in its first innings.
The Australian team, which came to bat after bowling out India for 180 runs, also had a bad start and Jasprit Bumrah gave India its first success by dismissing Usman Khawaja on a total score of only 24 runs. Khawaja scored 13 runs.
From here, Labuschagne and Nathan McSweeney played cautiously and made a partnership of 67 runs for the second wicket. On the total score of 91, Bumrah gave India its second success by dismissing McSweeney. Steve Smith could not do anything special and became the victim of Bumrah after scoring 2 runs on the total score of 103. From here Labuschagne and Head added 65 runs for the fourth wicket.
Nitish Reddy broke this partnership by dismissing Labuschagne on the total score of 168. Labuschagne scored 64 runs.
Mitchell Morsh became Ashwin’s victim by scoring 9 runs on the total score of 208. Siraj sent Alex Carey (15) to the pavilion with a total score of 282. Siraj gave a big success to India as he headed the total of 310 runs. Siraj bowled his best yorker to the head. Head played a brilliant century inning of 140 runs. During this, he faced 141 balls and hit 17 fours and 4 sixes. On the total score of 332, Bumrah gave India its eighth success by bowling Pat Cummins. Cummins scored 12 runs. Siraj then gave the ninth blow to Australia by dismissing Mitchell Starc. Siraj ended the Australian innings by bowling Scott Boland on the total score of 337. Nathan Lyon remained unbeaten after scoring 4 runs.
For India, Mohammed Siraj and Jasprit Bumrah took 4-4 wickets and Nitish Reddy and Ravichandran Ashwin took 1-1 wicket.
India’s first innings was limited to 180, Nitish was the top scorer.
Earlier, India scored 180 runs in its first innings. Nitish Reddy was the top scorer for India, scoring 42 runs. Apart from Nitish, KL Rahul scored 37, Shubhman Gill scored 31, Ravichandran Ashwin scored 22 and Rishabh Pant scored 21 runs. Mitchell Starc took 6 wickets for Australia.
Indian captain Rohit Sharma won the toss in this match and decided to bat first. Mitchell Starc spoiled India’s start by LBWing the previous match’s centurion Yashasvi Jaiswal (0) on the very first ball of the match.
Partnership of 69 runs between Rahul and Gill
After this, KL Rahul and Shubman Gill together tried to handle the Indian innings and added 69 runs for the second wicket. This dangerous looking pair was broken by Stork by dismissing KL Rahul on the first ball of his second spell. Rahul scored 37 runs. Virat Kohli could not do anything special and became the third victim of Stork after scoring only 7 runs.
Scott Boland then gave the fourth blow to India by dismissing Shubman Gill LBW on the total score of 81. Gill scored 31 runs. On the total score of 87, Boland gave the fifth blow to India by dismissing Rohit Sharma (03). Pant became the victim of Pat Cummins on a total score of 109. Pant scored 21 runs. From here Nitish Reddy and Ravichandran Ashwin took the team’s score to 141 runs. On this score, Stork gave the seventh blow to India by dismissing Ashwin. Ashwin scored 22 runs. Stork then completed his five wickets by bowling Harshit Rana (0) in the same over.
Nitish played a fast innings
After Rana’s dismissal, Nitish Reddy opened his hands and took on Storc and Boland. He scored 21 runs including 2 sixes in one over of Boland. Meanwhile, Jasprit Bumrah (0) was sent to the pavilion by Cummins. On the total score of 180, Nitish got caught by Travis Head while trying to hit a big shot on the ball of Stork. Nitish played a brilliant inning of 42 runs, he hit 3 sixes in his innings.
At the same time, Stork took 6 wickets in the innings, against India he took 6 wickets in an innings for the first time.
Apart from Stork, captain Pat Cummins and Scott Boland took 2 wickets each.
Let us tell you that the Indian team made three changes in its team for this match. Captain Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill and Ravichandran Ashwin were included in the team in place of Devdutt Padikal, Dhruv Jurel and Washington Sundar, while Australia included Scott Boland in the team in place of injured Josh Hazlewood.