Team India and Australia are locking horns with each other in the 2nd Test of the 4-match series at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi The hosts won the first match of the Border Gavaskar Trophy and has taken a 1-0 lead. Indian spinners dominated in the first match. In the second match, Australia won the toss and decided to bat first.
Cameron Green and Mitchell Starc will not play in today’s match as well. Travis Head gets a chance in the Delhi Test in place of Matt Renshaw, while Kullnemann makes his debut in place of Boland. Shreyas Iyer has been given a chance to replace Suryakumar Yadav from India. Batting first, Australia started well. Australia scored 208 for 6 in 61.5 overs.
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For Australia, David Warner (15), Usman Khawaja (81), Marnus Labuschagne (18), Steve Smith (0), Travis Head (12) and Peter Handscomb scored 36 off 88 balls with captain Pat Cummins on the pitch. Khawaja was seen troubling the Indian spinners with a reverse sweep. Meanwhile, when R Ashwin was bowling to Khawaja, Virat Kohli gave an instruction to Ashwin. As Virat gave this idea in Hindi, Khwaja also understood it. Khawaja and Kohli also laughed at that.
Here is the video of the incident:
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R Ashwin gave Australia a couple big blows in one over. Steve Smith (0) was dismissed by Ashwin after Marnus Labuschagne (18) was caught in front of stumps. KS Bharat took an amazing catch to dismiss Smith. At the lunch break on the first day, 3 Aussies were all out for 94 runs.
GONEEEEE!#TeamIndia bowlers have the ball talking and Aussie batters dancing to their tunes!
Ashwin gets two huge wickets of Labuschagne and Smith! 🔥Tune-in to the action in the Mastercard #INDvAUS Test on Star Sports & Disney+Hotstar! #BelieveInBlue #TestByFire pic.twitter.com/xxgiqyrRau
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Indian all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja has completed the tally of taking 250 wickets in Tests. He sent Usman Khawaja to the tent for 81 runs and achieved this alchemy. Khawaja missed out on his century due to a brilliant catch by Indian opener Lokesh Rahul.
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R Ashwin took the most wickets for India with 3 wickets, while Mohammad Shami (2) and Ravindra Jadeja (1) managed to take wickets. Significantly, Ravichandran Ashwin completed 100 wickets in Border Gavaskar Trophy history. He has become the second player to achieve such alchemy.
