Ind vs Aus 3rd Test Day 2: India Scored 96 Runs For 2 Wickets
Ind vs Aus 3rd Test Day 2: Indian batting continues. The second day’s play ended, India scored 96 runs for 2 wickets.
The third match of the four-match Test series between India and Australia is being played at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Two days of the match have ended.
By the end of the second day’s play, India had scored 96 runs at the loss of 2 wickets. After two days of play, the match has stood at par.
The third match of the four-match Test series between India and Australia is being played at the Sydney Cricket Ground. On the first day, host Australia won the toss and decided to bat first.
Due to the rain, a game of 55 overs was possible for the whole day. On the second day, the match started half an hour earlier.
Host Australia started to play by two wickets for 166 runs, but Australia has scored 338 runs in 105.4 overs with the help of Steve Smith’s century.
Ind vs Aus 3rd Test: Australia’s innings faltered, Smith scored a century
Smith, who failed to score in the series against India on the second day of the match, scored a century. After facing 200 balls, with the help of 13 fours, he completed his 27 Test centuries.
The match was started half an hour earlier on the second day to compensate for the ruined over due to rain on the first day. Marnus Labushane and Steve Smith pushed the innings to take the score to 200 runs.
On the second day too, the rain disrupted the match and the match had to be stopped for a while in the 66th over. However, the rain stopped soon and the match resumed after 5 minutes.
Ravindra Jadeja gave India the first success on the second day. Lausanne, playing for 91, was caught by captain Ajinkya Rahane.
After this, Smith completed the first half of the series and the 30th half-century of his Test career with fours.
He reached his half-century with the help of 7 fours off 116 balls.
Matthew Wade showed an aggressive attitude but after scoring 13 runs off 16 balls, he caught Jasprit Bumrah off Jadeja’s ball. Cameron Green to Jaspreet Bumrah brought India fifth success by LBW at zero.
After this, captain Tim Paine was sent back by Bumrah after lunch. Pat Cummins was bowled at zero by Jadeja while Mitchell Starc was caught by Navdeep Saini for 24 by Shubman Gill.
Jadeja brought India the 9th success by dismissing Nathan Lyon. The final breakthrough came to India in the form of a run-out when Ravindra Jadeja followed Steve Smith to a score of 131 runs.
After losing two wickets on the first day, Australia’s innings was handled by two experienced batsmen Steve Smith and Marnus Labushane.
Marines scored a half-century and took the team’s score to 150.
David Warner, who was returning from injury on the first day, was able to score only 5 runs while the second opener Will Bukowski, who was making his Test debut, scored 62 runs.
Indian playing XI
Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Hanuma Vihari, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Navdeep Saini, Mohammad Siraj, and Jaspreet Bumrah.
Australia’s playing eleven
David Warner, Will Bukowski, Marnus Labushane, Steve Smith, Matthew Wade, Cameron Green, Tim Paine (captain), Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Jesh Hazlewood
