Australia vs India 2nd Test Match Border Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25

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India vs Australia 2nd Test Match Border Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25

The Border Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 kicked off with the opening Test at Adelaide Oval, marking the beginning of an intense 5-match series between two cricketing powerhouses, India and Australia. The stakes are high as both teams aim to strengthen their positions in the ICC World Test Championship standings.

Australia vs India 2nd Test Match Date, Time and Venue:

Match: Australia vs India 2nd Test Match

Date: 6-10 December 2024

Time: 9:30 AM IST

Stadium: Adelaide Oval

Location: Adelaide

Result: Australia won by 10 wickets

POTM: Travis Head

Australia vs India 2nd Test Match Toss Updates

Indian skipper Rohit Sharma won the toss and opted to bat first, a strategic decision to capitalize on favorable morning conditions. The Australian bowling unit, spearheaded by Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc, is primed to put the Indian batting order to the test with pace and precision.

Playing XI Australia:

Usman Khawaja, Nathan McSweeney, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey(w), Pat Cummins(c), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Scott Boland

Playing XI India:

Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant(w), Rohit Sharma(c), Nitish Reddy, Ravichandran Ashwin, Harshit Rana, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj

Players to Watch

India: Jasprit Bumrah takes charge of the bowling attack, aiming to exploit the fast, bouncy Adelaide Oval track. Meanwhile, young opener Yashasvi Jaiswal is expected to anchor the innings with resilience.

Australia: Spin maestro Nathan Lyon will play a pivotal role on a pitch expected to assist later in the match, while Travis Head’s consistent performances make him a player to watch in the batting lineup.

Day 1: First Session

Yashasvi Jaiswal and Kl Rahul started the second innings for India in 2nd test match and Mitchel Starc start the Australian bowling attack. Still, in the previous match, Centurian Yashasvi Jaiswal was out on the first ball of the match by Mitchel Starc's outstanding delivery. It's a big bow for India and a bad start for India. After that, Shubman Gill comes to bat and looks in good touch. Shubman Gill is coming back after a finger Injury. KL Rahul and Shubman Gill are trying to recover from the initial defeat. Shubhan is looking very confident and the other side Kl Rahul is Struggling against Pat Commings. After the first bowling change, Scott Boland came to bowl, and the 1st ball got out to KL Rahul, but Rahul was so lucky today, getting no ball, and after the same over, Usman Khawaja dropped the catch, KL Rahul. Scott Boland looks so impressive but is too unlucky.

Kl Rahul and Shubman Gill's 50 runs partnership India still good after early setback of Yashasvi Jaiswal. both batters looking good and very confident. Now it's time of Mitchel Starc again come on stric and out to Kl Rahul on score of 37. India losing 2nd wicket on just 69. Now Virat Kohli came to come to bat and whole stadium chanting Kohli-Kohli but after few mints Mitchel Starc silent to all crowd to dismissed Virat Kohli on an unbelieve delivery on just 7 runs. Now India in trouble after 3 for 77. India had not yet recovered from Virat Kohli's blow that Scott Boland gave India another blow before Lunch by dismissing Gill. Till lunchon the first day, team India was seen struggling and before lunch India's score became 4 for 81. Subhaman Gill was bowled off Boland's ball on 31 scores.

After lunch everyone's eyes were now on captain Rohit, but Boland dashed India's hopes by getting Rohit out LBW and India's score became 5 for 87, Rohit Sharma was out after scoring 3 runs in 23 balls. After captain Rohit Sharma was out, Pant and Reddy tried to handle the innings but soon Australian captain Pat Cummins further increased India's problems by getting Pant out. Before Pant was out, he tried to handle the innings by scoring 21 runs in 35 balls but failed.

After this Ashwin and Readdy tried to handle the Indian innings and Ashwin showed some active attitude but soon he was dismissed by Starc on a score of 22. After this wicket kept falling one by one and the other side Nitish Reddy took good care of the Australian bowlers. Nitish Reddy became the victim of Starc as the last wicket of the Indian innings of 42 runs in just 54 balls and thus the Indian innings was restricted to 180. Nitish Reddy was the highest scorer from India's side. While from Australia's side, Starc made a lethal bowling and took 6 wickets, while Boland and Cummins got 2 wickets each.

Nathan McSweeney and Usman Khawaja came to start the innings from Australia's side, both batters were seen struggling but the poor fielding of the Indians gave the Australian opener the life of a score of 0 when Jaspreet's ball was going into the hands of Rohit Sharma standing in the 1st sleep while holding the edge of Nathan McSweeney's but in the middle Pant tried to catch and the ball got caught by his fingers and Nathan McSweeney got the chance to take his ball forward. However, this partnership did not last long and on a score of 24, Bumrah gave a big blow to Australia and Usman Khawaja became the victim of birthday boy Bumrah on a personal score of 13 and with this he became the first bowler to take 50 wickets in the calendar year 2024. After this, Marnus Labuschagne, who came to bat, along with Nathan McSweeney, played with great enthusiasm and brought Australia to a strong position. Before the end of the day's play, Australia had scored 86 runs at the loss of 1 wicket. Nathan McSweeney is on 38 and Marnus Labuschagne is not out after scoring 20 runs.

Day 2:

 On the Second day, Australia's not-out batters Nathan McSweeney and Marnus Labuschagne tried to take the Australian innings forward. Still, Nathan McSweeney could not take her innings much forward, and soon Bumrah got Nathan McSweeney out, keeping India's hopes alive. After this, Smith also came to bat but could not do much and became the victim of Bumrah; Smith could score just two runs. After this, Travis Head, who came to bat, joined Marnus Labuschagne and handled the Australian innings. In the meantime, Marnus Labuschagne scored a wonderful fifty and put Australia in a very good situation. Travis Head and Marnus Labuschagne took good news of the Indian bowlers. By the time Marnus Labuschagne was dismissed by NK Reddy with a score of 64, Australia had already reached a strong position. After this, Marsh, who came to bat, joined hands with Head and stopped the innings and gave a big lead to Australia but Marsh too could not last for long and scored nine runs to take the wicket Ashwin. After this, Carey, who came to bat, could also not do much and soon took the wicket of Siraj on a score of 15. Wickets kept falling from one end, and from the other end, Travis Head was seen beating the Indian bowers. Travis Head became the victim of Siraj after playing an incredible innings of 140 runs, but by then, it was too late, although some banter was also seen between Siraj and Head. After this, wickets kept falling quickly, and Australia's innings ended at 337 runs. Australia had made a lead of 157 runs on the basis of India's first innings.

When India came to bat in the second innings, it seemed that we would get to see good innings, but the Indian batters seemed to be disappointing and kept getting out quickly, one after the other. And before the end of the day's play, India was seen struggling and lost five wickets for a score of 105. The Indian batters had no answer to the onslaught of Australian bowlers as India's excellent wicketkeeper Pant and NK Reddy did not let any more wickets fall. Before the end of the second day's play, India's score reached 128. However, India is still 29 runs behind Australia after the first innings. It seems that tomorrow, the India batters will take this score to an end. The match seems to be slipping out of India's hands.

Day 3:

On the third day, before the start of the game, everyone's eyes were on the not-out batter Pant and Reddy, but as soon as the match started, Pant became the victim of Starc on a score of 28 without adding any run. After that, Ashwin, who came to bat, could not do anything special and became the victim of Pat Commins with a personal score of 7 runs. Harshit Rana could not even open his account, and he, too, became the victim of Cummins. From the other end, Reddy was trying to take India to a respectable score by scoring runs continuously. Still, on a personal score of 42, while trying to uppercut  Cummins, he got caught by McSweeney, and with this wicket, Indian hopes suffered a big blow. With the wicket of Reddy, captain Cummins opened his fifer. By dismissing Siraj from Boland, he ended the Indian innings at 175 runs. And Australia need the target of 19 runs. In reply, the Australian team came into bat and scored 19 runs without losing any wickets and won by ten wickets and with this, the series was level at 1-1.