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India vs Australia Highlights, 2nd Test: AUS reach 86/1, trail by 94 runs; IND fold for 180

India vs Australia Highlights, 2nd Test: In response to IND's first innings total of 180, AUS reached 86/1 at Stumps on Day 1.
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India vs Australia 2nd Test Highlights
India vs Australia 2nd Test Highlights

India vs Australia Highlights, 2nd Test: Australia posted 86/1 in 33 overs at Stumps against India on Day 1 of the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy’s second Test in Perth, on Friday. The hosts trail by 94 runs, with Nathan McSweeney (38*) and Marnus Labuschagne (20*) remaining unbeaten. The Aussie innings began with Usman Khawaja falling to Jasprit Bumrah for 13 off 35 balls....Read More

Earlier, Nitish Kumar Reddy squeezed out as many runs as possible from the tail and took India to a score of 180 batting first in the pink-ball Test against Australia at the Adelaide Oval. He fell on 42 off 54 balls and became the sixth man to fall to Mitchell Starc on the day. Starc finished with career-best figures of 6/48, continuing his domineering run at home in pink-ball Tests.

India had been reduced to their last two wickets for 141 runs in the second session. Reddy's charge took India past 170-run mark. Earlier, captain Rohit Sharma's return to the middle order didn't last long as he fell to Scott Bolland early in the second session. Australia captain Pat Cummins then suddenly rediscovered his mojo and bounced out Rishabh Pant. This brought Ravichandran Ashwin and he hit 22 quick runs before becoming Starc's fifth victim of the day.

Starc was earlier the toast of the first session of the pink-ball Test between India and Australia at the Adelaide Oval. India were reeling at 82/4 at Dinner with captain Rohit Sharma batting on one off 10 balls and Rishabh Pant on four off six. Starc rattled India early by dismissing the dangerous Yashasvi Jaiswal for a golden duck off the very first ball of the match. Starc was then brought back towards the end of the first session and responded by dismissing KL Rahul for 37 off 64 balls, thus ending a 69-run stand between him and Shubman Gill. India then suddenly lost two more wickets and Australia finished in front at the end of the first session. Starc got Kohli in his next over and then Shubman Gill fell to Scott Boland after scoring 31 in 51 balls.

Gill and Rahul seemed to have got India off to a fluent start after Starc shocked them early. Rahul had his fair share of luck earlier in the innings. He nicked behind to the wicketkeeper off the first ball bowled by Scott Boland but he was saved by the umpire calling it a no ball. Rahul was later dropped off the fifth ball of the same over. He then changed tactics and scored fluently with Gill after the drinks break until he fell late in the session.

India captain Rohit Sharma earlier won the toss and said that the visitors are batting first in the second Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. India have chosen to drop Washington Sundar and bring back Ravichandran Ashwin. Apart from this, Dhruv Jurel and Devudutt Padikkal also sit out as expected as Rohit and Shubman Gill return.

Here are a few pointers regarding the India vs Australia 2nd Test:

- Australia posted 86/1 in 33 overs at Stumps, and trail by 94 runs

-Jasprit Bumrah removed Usman Khawaja (13)

-India were 180 all-out in 44.1 overs

- Mitchell Starc finished with figures of 6/48

- Nitish Kumar Reddy was the last Indian to fall after scoring 42 in 54 balls

- Rohit Sharma fell early in the second session to Scott Boland

- India 82/4 in 23 overs at Dinner

- Starc then got another big breakthrough by sending back Virat Kohli

- Starc provided the breakthrough again by sending back Rahul for 37 off 64 balls

- KL Rahul and Shubman Gill then shared a 69-run partnership

- Mitchell Starc dismissed Yashasvi Jaiswal with the first ball of the match

- India have dropped Washington Sundar and Ravichandran Ashwin returns

- Rohit Sharma won the toss and India are batting first

- Australia have never lost a pink-ball Test in Adelaide

- India have won three day-night Tests, and their only defeat came against Australia

- For India, Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill are back in the Playing XI

- KL Rahul will continue to open for India, while Rohit Sharma will slot himself in the middle order

- Scott Boland will replace Josh Hazlewood in Australia's Playing XI

- The last time India played a day-night pink-ball Test against Australia, they were bowled out for 36.

Follow all the updates here:
Dec 6, 2024 10:25 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Boland working away

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Rahul beaten fair and square off the last ball of that over. Gill defends the first ball of Boland's second over and leaves the next two. Gill sends it to cover and takes a singler. Rahul then inside edges the fifth ball to his thigh guard and is then beaten. He is looking very uncomfortable against Boland. Rahul on nine off 32, Gill on 19 off 29.

India 30/1 in 10 overs

Dec 6, 2024 10:20 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Rahul slashes and gets a four!

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Rahul has decided to go for it, a little change in tactics. Starc, bowling his fifth over, goes full and wide off the third ball and Rahul sends it over backward point for his first boundary of the match. He elegantly drives the last ball to take two and moves to nine in 30 balls, Gill on 18 off 25.

India 29/1 in 9 overs

Dec 6, 2024 10:16 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Rahul off the mark at last AND THEN DROPPED!

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Well talk about luck! Is Rahul going to score a double century today? Surely, he has to do something of that sort to make the most of the big tablespoonfuls of luck he has had in this over. Rahul clips the second ball of the eighth over behind square and takes two, finally gets off the mark. Then Boland with a corker that cramped Rahul and squared him up completely, outside edge to first slip where Khawaja fails to hold on. How about it.

Dec 6, 2024 10:14 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: RAHUL SAVED BY THE NO BALL!

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Oh it looks like Rahul has nicked behind first ball of the match from Scott Boland! Boland gets it to climb on Rahul from a length, the batter fended it stuck in his crease and Carey takes it. Rahul is walking off but wait a minute! The umpire signals for no ball and Rahul has a second life!

Dec 6, 2024 10:11 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Rahul yet to get off the mark, Gill looking good

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Well KL Rahul has been kept quiet throughout the first spell from the new ball bowlers and now, it looks like he will have to deal with Scott Boland. The big fast bowler being cheered in as he comes in to bowl in the eighth over to replace Cummins. Gill sliced Starc in the air behind point fourth ball of the seventh over, he got another boundary and he ended the over on 18 off 24 balls. Rahul is on none off 18.

India 19/1 in 7 overs

Dec 6, 2024 10:00 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Gill with the most glorious cover drive for four

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Shubman Gill is looking very good indeed. Cummins bowls a second consecutive maiden, Starc bowls to Gill again fifth over. He sends in a half volley outside off, Gill meets it with just a sumptous cover drive, the ball booms along the ground to the boundary for four. Gill is on 14 off 18, Rahul yet to get off the mark after 12 deliveries.

India 15/1 in 5 overs

Dec 6, 2024 9:52 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Steady does it for Rahul and Gill

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Cummins starts off with a maiden and then two runs from Starc's second over. Starc overpitches the second ball of the third over and Gill drives through cover to run two. He is on 10 off 11 at the end of that over, Rahul yet to get off the mark after six balls.

India 10/1 in 3 overs

Dec 6, 2024 9:44 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: 8 runs and a wicket in the first over, Cummins from the other end

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Starc on the money for the second and third balls to Shubman Gill. The latter then cuts the fourth ball past gully for a four. Then he drives the fifth one elegantly past mid-off for another boundary and Gill finally leaves the last ball. What a first over we have had. Now Pat Cummins charging in to Rahul from the other end.

Travis Head
448 Runs
M5
HS152
SR92.56
Jasprit Bumrah
32 Wickets
Inn9
Avg13.06
SR28.37
Dec 6, 2024 9:34 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: OUT! GOLDEN DUCK FOR JAISWAL!

India vs Australia LIVE Score: OH MITCHELL STARC STRIKES WITH THE FIRST BALL OF THIS MATCH! The crowd is a cock-a-hoop and then a second wave of cheers come as Jaiswal walks off after a brief chat with Rahul. That is as plumb as they come really. Full on leg stump and swinging back in, Jaiswal looked for the glance, the ball thuds him low on the pads.

Jaiswal lbw b Starc 0 (1)

India 0/1 in 0/1 overs

Dec 6, 2024 9:34 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: HERE WE GO!

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Yashasvi Jaiswal facing up, KL Rahul at the other end, Mitchell Starc steaming in, here we go!

Dec 6, 2024 9:33 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Australia pay tribute to Phillip Hughes, Ian Redpath

India vs Australia LIVE Score: This month marked the 10-year anniversary of the passing away of Phillip Hughes and Australia are wearing black armbands for it. It is also for former Australia opener Ian Redpath who died on December 1. The national anthems are done, here we go now.

Dec 6, 2024 9:24 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Harbhajan Singh, Ricky Ponting carry out the Border-Gavaskar Trophy

India vs Australia LIVE Score: All right the crowd is slowly making its way to the stands. The two teams are standing by the boundary as Ricky Ponting and Harbhajan Singh bring out the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

Dec 6, 2024 9:09 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Just one change for Australia

India vs Australia LIVE Score: And it was a change that had been announced beforehand - Josh Hazlewood is injured and Scott Boland takes his place.

Australia XI: Usman Khawaja, Nathan McSweeney, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey(w), Pat Cummins(c), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Scott Boland

Dec 6, 2024 9:07 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Ashwin returns, Sundar sits out

India vs Australia LIVE Score: As stated earlier, Ashwin had done very well during the 36 all-out pink-ball Test and so it is not much of a surprise that he has returned to the squad in place of Washington Sundar. Couple of other unsurprising changes for India are Devdutt Padikkal and Dhruv Jurel sitting out for Shubman Gill and Rohit himself.

India XI: Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant(w), Rohit Sharma(c), Nitish Reddy, Ravichandran Ashwin, Harshit Rana, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj

Dec 6, 2024 9:03 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: TOSS ALERT!

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Rohit Sharma waves some flies out of his face after winning the toss and says that India are batting first.

Dec 6, 2024 9:00 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Pitch report

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Sunil Gavaskar and Matthew Hayden reckon that the new ball bowlers will have a lot of help. But once that has been seen off, this is an Adelaide pitch where a lot of runs are on offer. There are lines on the pitch and so it could seam around a lot but good conditions for days one and two.

Dec 6, 2024 8:48 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Australia's batting woes

India vs Australia LIVE Score: India were all out for 150 runs in the first innings of the first Test and then went on to win the match by 295 runs. In fact, the only time they really looked behind in that Test was during their first innings as they responded by dismissing Australia for just 104. Usman Khawaja is their highest run scorer in this WTC cycle and he averages just 38.20 in 13 Tests. All of their top batters are averaging in the 30s in this cycle, in fact, including two of their best - Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne.

Dec 6, 2024 8:37 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Cheteshwar Pujara on the difficulty of facing the pink ball during twilight

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Few players are better qualified to talk about batting in Australia than Cheteshwar Pujara and this is what he had to say about this conundrum of facing the pink ball as the sun sets: “Anybody who has played with the pink ball will tell you that the roughest period to bat is the twilight period. It is not dark enough for the stadium lights to come on and then have that brightness and daylight isn’t bright enough. So, that’s when it becomes quite challenging for the batters."

Dec 6, 2024 8:29 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: The twilight saga

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Facing the pink ball is not easy for the batters and the problems get compounded during that phase of the day which is neither day nor night. As the sun sets, the bowlers hunt in day-night Tests. It is early in the third session that is normally the twilight period in the day. The strike rate in the final session of days in pink ball Tests is significantly higher than the red ball versions. The difference is even starker in Australia. The average in this session in 12 pink-ball Tests played thus far in Australia sits at 24.33, even lesser than the first session average of 23.60. The strike rate is also higher - 47.9 in the third session, and 50.2 in the opening.

Dec 6, 2024 8:23 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Scenes before the match

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Ok so it looks like there will indeed be no rain trouble today, toss should take place as scheduled at 9am IST.

Dec 6, 2024 8:14 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Looking back at India's pink-ball Test matches

India vs Australia LIVE Score: This will be India's second day-night Test match away from home, with the previous instance also being at the same venue. Apart from that, India hosted pink-ball Test matches at three different venues across the country in 2019, 2021, and 2022.

Dec 6, 2024 8:11 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: No Josh Hazlewood for Australia

India vs Australia LIVE Score: One would remember that it was Josh Hazlewood who did the most damage when India were all out for 36 runs the last time they played a pink-ball Test. It was also his comments that started off speculation of a rift between bowlers and batters in the Australian dressing room as they were being pulverised in the Perth Test last month. Well, there is no Hazlewood for Australia for this Test, which is a giant blow. However, in his place comes the deadly Scott Boland and so it's not like India have got a big respite. Not on paper at least.

Dec 6, 2024 8:02 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal's Perth classic

India vs Australia LIVE Score: So why is it that Rohit Sharma is not opening for India for the first time in nearly five years? Well that's because KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal put up an opening partnership of 201 runs in 383 balls in India's second innings of the first Test of this series which pretty much knocked the wind out of Australia's sails.

Dec 6, 2024 7:50 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Schedule for the day in a day-night Test

India vs Australia LIVE Score: The match is scheduled to start at 9.30am IST and the first session will go on till 11.30am. The end of the first session will be marked with a Dinner break that will last just over half an hour after which the second session will go on till 2.10pm IST. That will end with a Tea break after which the last session goes on till 4.30pm IST.

Dec 6, 2024 7:43 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Rohit Sharma explains how he decided to demote himself

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Rohit acknowledged just how good KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal were at the top of the order for India in Perth. He admitted that it was not an easy decision to make on a professional level.

Dec 6, 2024 7:34 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Jasprit Bumrah one away from 50

India vs Australia LIVE Score: It has been quite a year for Jasprit Bumrah, even by his standards. He is India's second-highest wicket-taker in this WTC cycle , which is a testimony to how lethal Ravichandran Ashwin continues to be, and Bumrah needs one wicket to become the first fast bowler to reach 50 in Tests this year.

Dec 6, 2024 7:23 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: The 36 all-out Test

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Is there a match more bizarre than this? India won the toss and chose to bat first. Kohli led the way with a gritty 75 off 180 balls as India were all out for 244. Mitchell Starc took four wickets while Pat Cummins took three. India responded strongly with Ravichandran Ashwin getting a 4-fer and pacers Umesh Yadav and Jasprit Bumrah taking three and two wickets respectively as Australia were all out for 191 runs. India lost a wicket in the Prithvi Shaw at the end of Day 2 but were generally considered to be well ahead in the match. What followed in the first session of Day 3 was the kind of carnage that is rarely seen in Test cricket. India had lost five more wickets for 26 runs in the first hour. They lasted just over three overs after the drinks break and were all out for 36 runs, their lowest-ever Test score and the fourth-lowest in the history of the format. Australia chased down the target of 90 with eight wickets to spare. This was the first Test of the series but India miraculously went on to win two of the next three matches, leading to this match being seen in an entirely different light.

Dec 6, 2024 7:09 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: The pink-ball Test over the years

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Adelaide Oval was where the pink-ball Test was first played. That was between Australia and New Zealand from November 27 to December 1, 2015. Since then, 22 of these day-night matches have been played. Australia have lost just one of these at home just once and that came in a shocking result earlier this year in Brisbane. India have played four and lost one. Yes, that one.

Dec 6, 2024 7:04 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Virat Kohli's incredible record at the Adelaide Oval

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Virat Kohli is India's highest run scorer in Tests played at Adelaide by some distance. He has scored a whopping 509 runs in eight innings at an average of 63.62 with three centuries and a half-century. That half-ton came in the only pink-ball Test he played here - the 36 all-out one - in which he had scored 74 runs in 180 balls in the first innings.

Dec 6, 2024 7:01 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Overnight rains in Adelaide

India vs Australia LIVE Score: The city had rains almost throughout the night and it was reportedly drizzling even six hours before the match. That is not the case now. While it remains cloudy, indicators seem to point out that there won't be any effect on Day 1 of the match. Lets hope the indicators are right.

Dec 6, 2024 6:57 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: No place for Padikkal and Jurel?

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Rohit Sharma is dropping down the order and Shubman Gill returns. The only both these things can happen is if India decide to drop Devdutt Padikkal and Dhruv Jurel. Unless they decide to go into this Test without Washington Sundar or any other spin bowling all-rounder which is highly unlikely. Before India were all out for 36 runs in the last Adelaide pink-ball Test, Ravichandran Ashwin had taken four wickets.

Dec 6, 2024 6:43 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Rohit Sharma back in the middle order

India vs Australia LIVE Score: The Indian captain has confirmed that he will be back in the middle order for this series. It will be the first time since India's 2018/19 tour of Australia that Rohit will be playing in the middle order in a Test match.

Dec 6, 2024 6:31 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Australia full squad

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Usman Khawaja, Nathan McSweeney, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey(w), Pat Cummins(c), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Scott Boland, Beau Webster, Josh Inglis, Brendan Doggett, Sean Abbott

Dec 6, 2024 6:30 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: India full squad

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma(c), Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant(w), Dhruv Jurel, Washington Sundar, Nitish Reddy, Harshit Rana, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Devdutt Padikkal, Shubman Gill, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Sarfaraz Khan, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Prasidh Krishna, Akash Deep

Dec 6, 2024 6:09 AM IST

India vs Australia LIVE Score: Hello and welcome!

India vs Australia LIVE Score: The pink ball looks almost... beautiful. Under the lights it stands out in the broadcast like a big pink marshmallow, a pink ball of happiness. Any batter would tell you that it is anything but that, indeed it is the opposite of happiness in every imaginable way. That was certainly the case for India the last time they played a day night Test at the Adelaide Oval. They remember it almost fondly now though because of the almost miraculous series win that they managed after that. They are back now with a morale boosting win in Perth behind them as well. Can they do the unthinkable? Stay tuned for more updates.

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