Australia wins second Test by 10 wickets: Australia has won the second test match played in Adelaide by 10 wickets. Australia had a target of only 19 runs in the fourth innings, which the team achieved without losing any wicket. With the victory of this match, the Kangaroo team is tied at one each in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024. Earlier in the Perth Test, India had registered a huge victory by 295 runs. This is Australia’s 8th consecutive win in pink-ball Test matches in Adelaide.
On the third day of the match, the Indian team’s second innings was reduced to just 175 runs. Due to this, Australia got the target of only 19 runs in the fourth innings. Rishabh Pant, who has become the savior for the Indian team many times in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, looked completely ‘out of touch’. Nitish Reddy definitely looked full of enthusiasm, who was the highest run scorer for Team India in both the innings. He played innings of 41 and 41 runs in both the innings respectively.
Travis Head becomes trouble for India
Travis Head has been scoring a lot of runs against India from time to time. It was Travis Head who took India away from victory in the Adelaide Test. He played a century inning of 140 runs at a time when other batsmen were struggling to score even one run. Thanks to Head’s century and Marnus Labuschagne’s 64-run innings, Australia was able to get a lead of 157 runs in the first innings. Team India again collapsed under pressure and could score only 175 runs in the second innings.
Starc-Cummins havoc
The match itself was started by Mitchell Starc by making Yashasvi Jaiswal the victim of a golden duck. The sequence of falling wickets did not end from there. The situation was such that India’s first innings was all out for just 180 runs. In response, Australia scored 337 runs, giving it a lead of 157 runs. Starc took 6 wickets in the first innings, who took 8 wickets in the entire match. Cummins took charge in the second innings, who could take 2 wickets in the first innings but took 5 wickets in the second innings.
India’s flop show in batting
In the Adelaide Test, Indian batting looked helpless from the very beginning. Not a single Indian batsman could even touch the 50-run mark in the entire match. Nitish Reddy was the top-scorer in both the innings, scoring 42 runs in both the innings. Virat Kohli could score a total of 18 runs in both the innings and captain Rohit Sharma could score only 9 runs in the entire match.
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