Adelaide, 7 December
Cricket Test: The second day of the second Cricket Test match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy being played here between India and Australia was for Australia. By the end of today’s game, five wickets of the Indian team fell to 128 runs. On this occasion, Rishabh Pant scored 28 and Nitish Kumar Reddy scored 15 runs at the crease. The Indian team is still 29 runs behind. For India, Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 24 runs, Shubman Gill scored 28 runs while KL Rahul scored 7 runs and Virat Kohli scored only 11 runs. Australia’s Pat Cummins and Scott Boland took two wickets each. Earlier, Australia started the innings after 86 runs with the loss of one wicket. On this occasion, the Australian team scored 337 runs and got a lead of 157 runs in the first innings. For India, Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammad Siraj took four wickets each.
Before this, Indian captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and decided to bat first and the Indian team scored 180 runs in the first innings. The Indian team had a bad start and Yashasvi Jaiswal got out in the first ball of the match. After this, KL Rahul (37 runs) and Shubman Gill (31 runs) took over the innings. Both shared a partnership of 69 runs for the second wicket but Virat Kohli 7, Rishabh Pant 21, captain Rohit Sharma got out after scoring 3 runs. Ravichandran Ashivaan played an innings of 22 runs and Nitish Reddy brought the team’s score to 180 with 42 runs. Mitchell Starc took six wickets while Pat Cummins and Stock Boland took two wickets each.