The hosts are way ahead of the Indian team in the IND vs AUS 2nd Test as of now and needs a miracle from here to win the match.
Day 1 Recap: Mitchell Starc delivered a stunning performance with the ball, claiming six wickets for 48 runs, as Australia took control of the opening day of the Adelaide Test against India. The visitors, who chose to bat first, were dismissed for just 180 runs. Nitish Reddy top-scored for India with 42 runs. In response, the Indian bowlers struggled to match their opponents’ precision, and Australia finished the day at 86 for 1. The only Australian wicket to fall was Usman Khawaja, who was dismissed by Jasprit Bumrah.
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Half of the Indian team has been sent back to the dressing room as Rohit Sharma has been cleaned up by Pat Cummins.
The wicket number four has fallen for the Indian team as Shubman Gill has to walk back for a score of 28 runs from 30 balls.
Virat Kohli has failed once again in the Adelaide Test and has to walk back due to a beauty from Scott Boland.
The Indian team has lost two wickets in its second innings of the IND vs AUS 2nd Test as of now and all the onus will be on Virat Kohli and Shubman Gill.
Another one bites the dust for the Indian team and Scott Boland has dismissed well set Yashasvi Jaiswal.
The Indian team has lost its first wicket in the form of KL Rahul as he tries to pull the ball towards fine-leg. Pat Cummins strikes for Australia.
Indian openers Yashasvi Jaiswal and KL Rahul have begun the proceedings for the Indian team in the second innings.
Mohammed Siraj picks up the last Australian wicket in the form of Scott Boland and Australia are wrapped up for 337 runs in their first innings.
Australian team has lost its ninth wicket in the form of Mitchell Starc. Team India look to close in Australian innings.
Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah has struck again as Pat Cummins has to walk back.
Australian pacer Mitchell Starc will look to attack the Indian bowlers as Australia will look to add as much runs as they can.
Travis Head has to walk back for a score of 140 runs and it is a huge wicket for the Indian team, Mohammed Siraj strikes.
The India national cricket team has taken the second new ball and Jasprit Bumrah has come into the attack. Will it work for the Indian team?
Cummins gets off the mark, gets it to dip and Cummins gets forward to play an expansive cover drive. Gets a thick inside edge that goes wide of extra cover
76th over: Australia leads by over 100 runs. out Caught by Pant!! Edged and gone! 135.2kph, on a length and around the fifth stump zone, hint of extra bounce, Carey jabs at it from the crease and nicks off. Thick outside edge and an easy grab for the keeper.
Head stays back and slashes hard at the 134.5 short of a good length ball marginally outside off. Thick outside edge and the ball bounces over the jumping gully fielder
Ashwin to Head, no run, slower from Ashwin, lands around off and spins with good bounce, Head misses the cut as it goes over his blade. Good grab by Pant
back of a length delivery by Siraj and the ball flies over middle and off, Head lifts one leg up and tries to pull, not there for the shot, misses, flies over the stumps
No run, short of length on middle, turned to the vacant short mid-wicket area, but Siraj gets across and cuts it off
Continous boundaries damages team India
Head with a single gets a 100 in the 71st over.
He has been India's nemesis so often in the past. Famously in the 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup final. And he is at it again. Gets there with a flick wide of mid-wicket and immediately rocks the baby celebration with his bat with his wife and young baby watching on from the ground.
FOUR, Head into the 90s. It's short and wide outside off, there is a cover and an extra-cover but Head goes on the back foot and is on his toes, thrashes it in the air and right into the gap
Travis Head with continous boundaries
Rishab Pant dropping the chance to to send Head back to pavilion
Head smashed a boundary wide of Nitish at deep square-leg. It's a back of a length delivery outside off, Head picks up length and swivels to pull it hard and wide of Nitish running, he tries to palm it back with his right hand but fails
Ashwin to Carey, no run, on a length outside off, Carey gets forward to defend to cover
Slower-ball off-cutter, full just outside off, Head stays leg-side of the ball, drives it square of the wicket on the off-side
Out!!! Caught by Pant!! Mitchell Marsh departs at 9 as Ashwin does the job for India
FOUR, to deep backward point by Mitchell MARSH. Length delivery outside off, he gets forward and pushes with an open face and wide of Jaiswal at gully
Launches the ball to deep mid wicket and gets a couple of runs in the 61st over
Head delivers a boundary at a full length ball just outside the gully point.
Slower and on a good length on middle, turned in the air but short-leg who is in between an imaginary legslip and backward short-leg has no chance as it is well wide of him, Head runs through for a quick single
Australia In The Lead, Half Centuries for Labuschagne And Head Before Lunch
Half century for Head comes in the 58th over with a boundary
Not Out for Marsh. Involvement of the bat before the pad
Ashwin is convinced no bat
Head is trying to score every ball now. This is full and just outside off, he gets forward to drive and mistimes it to mid-off. Came off the bottom of the bat
Head is looking very dangerous now. Australia into the lead. and Head at 48
A six to the deep square leg, Ashwin gets slammed by Head in the 55th over
Out Caught by Jaiswal!! What a good catch that is by Jaiswal at gully. Labuschagn can't believe it. Labuschagne c Jaiswal b Nitish Reddy
Ashwin looking for a wicket, looking to make a turn of the innings
NKR with a brilliant contribution with a bat, now eyes for a wicket marking his contribution with the game as well in the 52nd over
Slower and tossed up on off, hint of turn away, but Head gets forward to defend it solidly to backward point
Labuschagne targetting Harshit RANA with consecutive boundaries. Runs flowing now. A length delivery outside off, another delectable touch from Labuschagne, he leans back and allows the ball to come to him, dabs it fine and beats the dive of Jaiswal
Travis HEAD welcomes Rana with a boundary in the 50th over
Initially seems struggling, Labuschagne has crossed the 50 runs benchmark in the Adelaide on day 2 of the pINK BALL test in the 48th over
Defends the ball vertically below his eyes, Rana in desperate need for a breakthrough
Travis Head with a six to Ashwin to the longoff
Full on leg-stump, Head flicks wide of deep backward square-leg and head back for the 2nd, has a big smile on his face, Ashwin very slow there