AUS vs IND, 2nd Test, Day 3: Australia beat India by 10 wickets in Adelaide in D/N Test and maintain their perfect record. Australia level five-match series by 1-1.Travis Head gets player of the match for his 140.
Brief Score: IND 180 & 175 (Nitish Reddy 42, Shubman Gill 28, Pat Cummins 5/57) lost to AUS 337 & 19/0 (Nathan McSweeney 10*, Usman Khawaja 9*) by 10 wickets to level the series 1-1.
Australia made quick work of India at Adelaide by bundling them out for 175 in the second innings. The finishing touches came in about 13 overs into Day 3. Skipper Pat Cummins was the bowler of the innings for the Aussies, picking three more wickets to finish with figures of 5/57. Chasing 19 runs, the hosts cruised to a 10-wicket win and leveled the five-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) series 1-1.
Player of the Match: Travis Head (140)
Talking points: Australia’s pin-point accuracy with the ball Â
After facing a setback in Perth, Australia made a roaring comeback into the series by decimating India in the second Test by 10 wickets. While Travis Head stole the show with the bat, credit must be given to the Aussie pacers for the way they bowled. On a track that didn’t bear many demons, they were able to bowl India out for 180 and 175 in this Test match.
Apart from being a little wayward in the first hour of the game, allowing the game to drift, the Aussie pacers were pretty much attacking on the stumps. Their efforts brought them rewards through the course of the two innings.
Their discipline was on exhibition when Mitchell Starc forced Pant to play a good length delivery at the stumps, scalping the prized wicket. The same could be said about the battle of the captains. Pat Cummins bowled a peach to disturb Rohit Sharma’s furniture. It was an in-line delivery that seamed away after pitching.
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Pat Cummins rout IndiaÂ
Already behind by an innings and 29 runs with five wickets down in their second essay, India lost Rishabh Pant in the first over on Day 3. The wicket-keeper edged one to the slips off the bowling of Mitchell Starc. Alas, the only batter who could bring them back into the contest was gone.
Soon, Ravichandran Ashwin and Harshit Rana joined Pant in the dressing room after falling to a short ball barrage from Pat Cummins. Nitish Reddy was instrumental in India getting a slender lead, but once again, Cummins cut short his stay. In the end, India’s innings was wrapped at 175, setting the Aussies a meager target of 19 to win the Test match. The Australia openers completed the formalities by chasing it down under four overs with all their 10 wickets intact.
Statistical Highlights from AUS vs IND, Second Test, Day Three
- Rishabh Pant was dismissed for the third time by Mitchell Starc in Test cricket. The former has scored 138 runs against Starc in this format.
- Rohit Sharma’s average (11.83) in 2024-25 is the third-worst for a captain batting in the top 6 in a Test season.
- Harshit Rana got a pair in the Adelaide Test.
- Pat Cummins got his 13th fifer in Tests, his second against India.
- Cummins now has the second-most Test wickets (60) for Australia against India.
- This is the fourth time India lost by a margin of 10 wickets against Australia in Tests.
- This was the fourth-shortest completed Test in terms of balls bowled (1031) on Australian soil.
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What’s NextÂ
Up next, the two teams will head to the Gabba, Brisbane, for the Third Test with the series being tantalizingly poised. While India would take inspiration from the Aussies to make a similar sort of comeback, the hosts would want to regain their breached fortress. The third Test begins in a week on December 14.
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