Live Cricket Update – AUS vs IND 3rd Test Day 2, – Highlights

What a day this has been. No rain, and 377 runs and 7 wickets over 87.4 overs. 5 of the wickets got here courtesy that man Jasprit Bumrah, and 263 of the runs courtesy these two nice India tormentors, Travis Head and Steven Smith, 241 of them in a fourth-wicket stand that rattled alongside at slightly below 5 an over.

India’s three-pronged tempo assault put Australia below strain at numerous factors at present, and Akash Deep was extraordinarily unfortunate to finish up with no wickets, regardless of inducing 45 false photographs to Bumrah’s 46. However the depth of India’s general bowling was discovered wanting at present, as Nitish Kumar Reddy and Ravindra Jadeja, their fourth and fifth bowlers, gave away 141 runs over a mixed 29 overs, whereas selecting up one wicket.

The massive tales of the day, nonetheless, had been Head and Smith. India continued to don’t have any reply to the essential query Head has posed them since day one: how do you bowl to somebody whose inventory response to the top-of-off line and size is a fast-hands sq. minimize? They tried numerous issues, however they weren’t in a position to maintain a risk for any size of time in opposition to a batter of his high quality within the kind he is in. And Smith began so, so scratchily, taking part in and lacking repeatedly, however he got here in with a way, returning to the massive shuffle throughout the stumps after abandoning it following his first-innings duck in Perth, and he caught to it, and finally discovered the fluency to achieve his thirty third Check hundred and tenth in opposition to India.

Bumrah then got here again and picked up three wickets in 12 balls with the second new ball, however by then Australia gave the impression to be effectively in entrance. By the top of the day, they’d gone previous the 400 mark, and also you’d assume that their bowlers ought to get considerably extra out of this pitch than India’s have managed, given each residence benefit and top benefit.

Solely three days to go, although, so time might grow to be an element as this Check match goes alongside. And the climate could possibly be one other issue over days three, 4 and 5, so Australia could have some calculations to make. Both manner, they’re in a terrific place, and no matter occurs subsequent ought to make for fascinating viewing. Do be a part of us good and early tomorrow (it is one other early begin, bear in mind), and we’ll benefit from the experience collectively.