Delhi: Australian captain Pat Cummins bowled brilliantly on the second day of the Boxing Day Test. Batting first, the Australian team scored 474 runs. In response, the Indian team did not have a special start. The team lost the wicket of captain Rohit Sharma in the very second over. But Rahul, who was opening till now, had to come at number one. Both the players together added 43 runs for the second wicket. The team’s score was 51 in 16 overs.
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Rahul became the victim of Cummins’ deadly ball.
There was a good partnership between Rahul and Jaiswal. Both the batsmen looked set. It seemed that Rahul would play a big innings but then Cummins brought the 17th over of the innings on whose last ball KL Rahul was out. Actually, Cummins had bowled the last ball of his over fast, which Rahul could not understand and was bowled. Rahul returned to the pavilion after scoring 24 runs on 42 balls.
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What a peach delivery from Pat Cummins to dismiss KL Rahul pic.twitter.com/IKfEyClWqB
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Australia’s brilliant performance in Melbourne Test
The Australian team demonstrated a strong game against India in Melbourne. In the match, captain Pat Cummins had decided to bat first after winning the toss. Australia’s batsmen absolutely proved their captain’s decision right and gave a strong start to the team. In the innings for Australia, Steve Smith played an inning of 140 runs in 197 balls. This was Smith’s 34th century in Test cricket.
Four Australian batsmen played big innings
Apart from Smith, the other top three batsmen scored half-centuries. Constus, who made his debut for the Kangaroo team, opened the innings with Khawaja and played a brilliant inning of 60 runs. After this, Khawaja also scored 57 runs while Marnus Labuschagne scored 72 runs.
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