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India vs Australia Highlights, 5th Test Day 2: Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar remained unbeaten at stumps, but India crumbled under pressure and posted 141/6 at stumps.
- 12:36 PM IST, Jan 4India 141/6 (& 185) at Stumps on Day 2
- 12:16 PM IST, Jan 4Nitish Kumar Reddy departs!
- 12:02 PM IST, Jan 4Pant falls!
- 11:43 AM IST, Jan 4Rishabh Pant completes fifty with a six!
- 11:27 AM IST, Jan 4Hat-trick of fours for Pant!
- 11:22 AM IST, Jan 4Bumrah returns but no update on his injury!
- 11:20 AM IST, Jan 4Bumrah back in the ground!
- 11:14 AM IST, Jan 4Shubman Gill departs!
- 11:10 AM IST, Jan 4Four for Pant!
- 11:00 AM IST, Jan 4OUT! Kohli's tour with the bat ends with one last push outside off
- 10:47 AM IST, Jan 4GONE! It's Jaiswal and it is Boland again!
- 10:27 AM IST, Jan 4OUT! Boland gets Rahul
- 10:21 AM IST, Jan 4Another classy shot for four from Rahul, now time for Boland...
- 9:49 AM IST, Jan 4KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal back for India
- 9:35 AM IST, Jan 4Tea has been taken...
- 9:30 AM IST, Jan 4Australia 181 all out, India lead by 4 runs
- 9:13 AM IST, Jan 4GONE! Webster goes, IND's slip fielders are on fire!
- 9:05 AM IST, Jan 4OUT! Another for Reddy!
- 8:58 AM IST, Jan 4OUT! Reddy gets Cummins
- 8:49 AM IST, Jan 4More on the Bumrah situation
- 8:47 AM IST, Jan 4Half-century on debut for Beau Webster!
- 8:45 AM IST, Jan 4JASPRIT BUMRAH SEEN LEAVING THE SCG!
- 8:23 AM IST, Jan 4GONE! Krishna cleans up Carey!
- 8:14 AM IST, Jan 4Bumrah remains off the ground
- 8:00 AM IST, Jan 4Bumrah is off the ground
- 7:49 AM IST, Jan 4Here we go for the second session
- 7:31 AM IST, Jan 4‘Let them understand importance of cricket,’ Rohit on younger players taking over captaincy
- 7:25 AM IST, Jan 4‘I have not retired,’ says Rohit
- 7:19 AM IST, Jan 4‘Made the decision after reaching Sydney,’ says Rohit
- 7:18 AM IST, Jan 4‘I stood down,’ says Rohit Sharma
- 7:15 AM IST, Jan 4Rohit Sharma is talking!
- 7:06 AM IST, Jan 4LUNCH! Australia 101/5 in 29 overs
- 6:58 AM IST, Jan 4OUT! PRASIDH KRISHNA GETS STEVE SMITH!
- 6:40 AM IST, Jan 4Nitish Kumar Reddy handed the ball
- 6:04 AM IST, Jan 4Drinks in the first session, Australia 58/4 in 16 overs, trail by 127 runs
- 5:55 AM IST, Jan 4Prasidh Krishna for the first time in Australia...
- 5:46 AM IST, Jan 4OUT! 2 IN THE OVER FOR SIRAJ! IT'S TRAVIS HEAD!
- 5:41 AM IST, Jan 4OUT! Siraj sends back Konstas!
- 5:17 AM IST, Jan 3OUT! Bumrah with the early strike!
- 5:01 AM IST, Jan 3The players walk out!
- 4:59 AM IST, Jan 3A new record awaits for Jasprit Bumrah
- 4:57 AM IST, Jan 3Scenes from the ground...
- 4:42 AM IST, Jan 3Shubman Gill's bizarre throwaway
- 4:32 AM IST, Jan 3Virat Kohli's astonishing Test slump
- 4:16 AM IST, Jan 3Virat Kohli's outside off stump voodoo
- 4:03 AM IST, Jan 3Rishabh Pant's blockathon
- 3:52 AM IST, Jan 3Sanjay Manjrekar tears into India's handling of the Rohit Sharma situation
- 3:39 AM IST, Jan 3Another sub-par batting show from India
- 3:22 AM IST, Jan 3Rishabh Pant and Beau Webster talk about the Konstas-Bumrah bust up
- 3:15 AM IST, Jan 3Khawaja stuck in Bumrah's pocket
- 3:05 AM IST, Jan 3Some controversy around Smith's non-catch off Kohli
- 2:55 AM IST, Jan 3The drama before the last ball yesterday
- 2:37 AM IST, Jan 3Did Sam Konstas make a mistake?
- 2:24 AM IST, Jan 3India's headline making team news
- 2:15 AM IST, Jan 3Hello and welcome!
India vs Australia Highlights, 5th Test Day 2: Rishabh Pant slammed a 29-ball half-century to drive his team to a 145-run lead with four wickets left after an intense day two. At the close in Sydney, the visitors were 141-6 with Ravindra Jadeja on eight and Washington Sundar six unbeaten.
India vs Australia Highlights, 5th Test Day 2: India reached 141 for six at stumps after dismissing Australia for 181 on the second day of the final Test on Saturday. Ravindra Jadeja (8) and Washington Sundar (6) were at the crease, India leading by 145 runs. Rishabh Pant made a statement and slammed a 29-ball half-century, but Pat Cummins put an end to his carnage. The hosts looked clueless about how to stop Pant at one stage as he was smashing everyone around the park, but the Aussie skipper took the onus on himself and got the job done for his team....Read More
Meanwhile, India got a sigh of relief as skipper Jasprit Bumrah returned to the ground after he went out with the physio regarding some scans during Australia's innings. The premier pacer looked good and was seen taking the stairs and running towards the dressing room comfortably. India has come out firing, but Scott Boland has replied in kind, taking three early wickets to keep them in check. He dismissed KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal first and then sent back Virat Kohli, with the acting Indian captain fishing outside off stump one last time on this tour. Meanwhile, Beau Webster joined the party and got the better of Shubman Gill. Earlier, the visitors were handed a blow in the form of captain Jasprit Bumrah leaving the SCG for scans but they roared back into the match in response to the development. Prasidh Krishna and Mohammed Siraj took three wickets each as Australia were all out for 181 and India took a lead of four runs.
India's biggest fear may have come true as captain Jasprit Bumrah was spotted leaving the Sydney Cricket Ground in his training kit but they responded by shredding Australia's lower order to pieces and positioning themselves for a lead. Nitish Kumar Reddy dismissed Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc off consecutive deliveries while Beau Webster fell to Prasidh Krishna after that with a score of 57 off 105 balls. Australia were trailing by 19 runs when they were reduced to their last wicket.
Bumrah was earlier spotted leaving the SCG with a few support staff members for scans. The Indian captain bowled just one over in the second session before having a long chat with Virat Kohli and then walking off the field. Kohli seems to have taken over captaincy duties in his stead.
Krishna seemed to be struggling to keep up the pressure built by Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj in the first session but he ended up striking with the huge wicket of Steve Smith just before Lunch. He then followed it up by dismissing Alex Carey and ending his brisk 41-run stand with Beau Webster early in the second session. The wicket came with India captain Jasprit Bumrah being off the ground for more than half an hour after bowling the second over of the session. An injury to Bumrah is arguably the one thing India dread the most, with the pacer being the visitors' only consistent performer throughout the series and consolidating himself as arguably the best bowler in the world.
Australia were 101/5 at Lunch, trailing India by 84 runs. Bumrah and Siraj earlier made the most of the vicious bounce on offer on Day 2 of the fifth Test at the SCG. The Indian fielders drowned Marnus Labuschagne and Sam Konstas with sledges in the first three overs of the day, so much so that the umpire had to intervene and have a word with Kohli in Bumrah's first over of the day itself. Bumrah eventually dismissed Labuschagne in just his second over of the day after which Siraj sent back Konstas and dangerman Travis Head in the same over.
Australia started the day on a a score of 9/1. A quick-moving first day at the Sydney Cricket Ground saw 11 wickets fall, as a mixture of excellent bowling, extremely bowler-friendly conditions, and plenty of barbs fired back and forth between the two teams leaves a tantalizing contest heading into the rest of the Test match for fans. The significance of the match is immense: if Australia don't win in Sydney, they will continue to suffer from a drought of a decade-plus without getting their hands on the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. If India fail to win, they miss out on the World Test Championship finals after having been runaway favourites heading into the second half of the year.
With all these stakes on the line and both sides well aware, it was a big and confident decision made by the Indian leadership group to drop Rohit Sharma from the team due to a too-long run of poor performances in the format. Jasprit Bumrah, who captained India to the sole win of their series so far in Perth, was back at the helm against his opposite number, Pat Cummins.
Nevertheless, day one continued to be the same old story for India's fragile batting unit. For the seventh time in eight innings in this series so far, India's batting failed to really get going, as wickets in clusters meant that no partnership ever really formed that threatened Australia. The good news for India from their performance is that they can credit Australia as much if not more than they can look at themselves: there is an incredible amount of seam and bounce in this Sydney pitch, offering plenty for the pace bowlers in particular with a touch of green on the surface and cracks which are already beginning to widen. The wicket of Usman Khawaja will also be a template: pitching on off stump and holding its like as well as staying low, the variable bounce and natural deviation of the new and old balls alike will keep Bumrah, Siraj, and Prasidh Krishna interested.
India ended the day with 176 runs in the lead, with a wicket in the first three overs, meaning there was a silver lining for the team to take back into the dressing room. While 185 isn't much, 150 proved to be more than competitive at the Optus Stadium in Perth. Can Bumrah find yet another spell of inspiration to continue his crusade as a one-man wrecking crew for India so far in this series?
Bumrah will also be fired up from his altercation with Sam Konstas right on the verge of stumps at the SCG, where he swapped words with the Australian teenager before going on to find Khawaja's outside edge and staring Konstas down, along with the rest of the team. In a series in which India have often looked flat and unimposing with the ball, especially in the first innings for Australia in the last three Tests, India's bowlers having that fire and competitive edge will be essential. The Australian batters cannot be allowed to feel comfortable at the crease, or feel the runs coming thick and fast after how much of a struggle it was for India's batters to break the shackles. It will require an energetic, everything-on-the-line kind of performance from a bowling lineup that is reaching the end of a long-drawn series, and having a pantomime villain to latch onto might just be what team India requires.
Conversely, Australia will want to be risk free and see out the new ball in the hope that conditions flatten out and allow them to make the best of what is likely to be the most batting-friendly conditions on day two. Konstas signalled his intent to go all-guns-blazing at Bumrah rather than sit into a shell and wait for one with his name on it, but the stolid and defensively airtight techniques of Marnus Labuschagne and Steven Smith are more than capable of frustrating India's bowlers. Australia will be aware India are likely once again a pacer short, choosing to use two spinner, and if they manage to wear down Bumrah in particular, a lot of pressure will be placed onto a raw and so-far untested Prasidh Krishna in his first match of the series. With Scott Boland’s performance as the third seamer to live up to, Krishna will want to make sure he can provide able support to the lead bowlers at the very least, if not establish himself as an out-and-out threat on a lively wicket.
Below are a few pointers regarding India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2:
- India 141/6 (& 185) at Stumps on Day 2, lead Australia (181) by 145 runs in Sydney
- Rishabh Pant hit half-century off 29 balls and he reached the mark with a six.
- Jasprit Bumrah back in the stadium, good signs for India
- Virat Kohli fell poking outside off stump one last time to Scott Boland
- Scott Boland did it again for Australia, dismissing both KL Rahul and Jaiswal in his first two overs
- Yashasvi Jaiswal was off to a flier of a start, smashing 16 runs in the first over
- Australia were all out for 181, India lead by 4 runs with Siraj and Prasidh taking three wickets each
- Prasidh Krishna got his third wicket and Australia were down to their last wicket without taking a lead
- Nitish Kumar Reddy's twin strikes reduced Australia down to their last two wickets
- Beau Webster scored a half-century on Test debut in 92 balls
- Jasprit Bumrah was spotted leaving the stadium for scans in his training kit; he left the field after bowling just one over in the second session
- Prasidh Krishna provided India with the breakthrough in the third session, dismissing Alex Carey and ending a 41-run stand between him and Webster
- Jasprit Bumrah bowled the second over after Lunch but has been off the ground since
- Australia 101/5 at Lunch, trail India by 84 runs
- Mohammed Siraj then was rewarded for his efforts as he dismissed Sam Konstas in his fifth over of the day
- Jasprit Bumrah dismissed Marnus Labuschagne in just his second over of the day
- Australia resumed on 9/1, behind India (185 all out) by 171 runs.
- All eyes will be on Jasprit Bumrah's battle against Sam Konstas.
- India drew their last two Test matches at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Bumrah returns after drinks
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Prasidh continues after drinks and Webster pulls the last ball over midwicket for a four. Now Bumrah returns to replace Mohammed Siraj in the 18th over. Webster has scored 10 runs in 17 balls, Smith on 17 off 26 balls.
Australia 62/4 in 17 overs
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Drinks in the first session, Australia 58/4 in 16 overs, trail by 127 runs
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: An action-packed first hour, to put it mildly. The Indians created a hostile environment for Sam Konstas and Marnus Labuschagne and Jasprit Bumrah made the most of it by dismissing the latter. Mohammed Siraj was brilliant from the other end and he dismissed Konstas and Travis Head in the same over. Now Steve Smith has put up a mini-counter attack of sorts.
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: SIX AND FOUR! Smith shows Krishna who is boss
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Siraj continued from the other end and Webster got off the mark in Test cricket in that over. Prasidh returns for the 15th over and Smith missed a cut third ball. The fifth ball is a short ball that is chest high, not too much pace, Smith pulls it emphatically for the first six of the innings. Then Smith sends the last ball over the vacant cover region for a four. Just a brilliant shot that. Smith is on 17 off 26.
Australia 53/4 in 15 overs
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Prasidh Krishna for the first time in Australia...
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: AND HE STARTS OFF WITH A SNORTER AT STEVE SMITH'S HEAD! Wow this pitch is a trampoline at the moment. Bumrah takes himself off after a four-over spell and brings in Prasidh Krishna in the 13th over. His first ball jumps up from just short of a length at Smith, almost giving him a boxing-style uppercut. Smith knocks it down and looks at the spot where the ball pitched with a wary smile. shakes his head a few times, motions with his hands to show how much it bounced.
Australia 39/4, trail by 146
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: OUT! 2 IN THE OVER FOR SIRAJ! IT'S TRAVIS HEAD!
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: This is sensational stuff from Siraj and he gets Travis Head once again. Siraj has rediscovered his rhythm and how. Head pinged the previous ball past mid-on for a four, with Siraj going too full there. He shortens that length next ball, stays on middle stump, Head hits it across the line and the ball takes a thick edge. Rahul pouches it at second slip. India are a cock-a-hoop, their scourge Head has been dismissed for a low score once again and Australia have lost their top four for just 39 runs!
Head c Rahul b Mohammed Siraj 4 (3)
Australia 39/4 in 11.5 overs
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: OUT! Siraj sends back Konstas!
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: That is a very good catch by Jaiswal, Siraj gets the reward for his efforts. He has been sending in some lovely outswingers today, this one suckers Konstas into a drive. Edged to gully where Jaiswal dives forward and takes a low catch.
Konstas c Jaiswal b Mohammed Siraj 23 (38)
Australia 35/3 in 11.2 overs
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: 10 overs done, Australia trail by 159
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Well Mohammed Siraj seems to have rediscovered his mojo now. He has looked good from the other end to Bumrah, not letting the pressure go at all. Smith is on four off 10, Konstas on 18 off 32.
Australia 26/2 in 10 overs
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: FOUR! Konstas gives Bumrah the charge
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: The theatre continues. Bumrah returns for the ninth over, the first ball is at a length and Konstas charges down to it, smashes it along the ground past mid-off for the first four of the day. He takes a single third ball and Smith leaves he next two balls. He misses the leg glance off the last ball. Smith is on four off nine at the end of that over, Konstas on 17 off 27.
Australia 25/2
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: A glare from Bumrah to Konstas...
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: And Konstas responds by practising a hook shot after the last ball of that over. Steve Smith got off the mark fifth ball and then Konstas defended the last ball from the crease to Bumrah. The Indian captain picks it up and half shapes an underarm throw at the stumps, gives Konstas a stare and goes back. Absolute theatre at the SCG.
Australia 16/2 in 7 overs
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: OUT! Bumrah with the early strike!
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: That is a huge wicket. Marnus Labuschagne is gone and Bumrah breaks Bishan Singh Bedi's record for most wickets by an Indian in a Test series in Australia. Well Labuschagne's body language said that he knew he was out straightaway but the umpire was unmoved. Bumrah took the review straightaway and a very big spike as ball passes bat. Marnus Labuschagne has proven to be a tough cookie to crack in this series and so this is a major, major tick mark for India.
Labuschagne c Pant b Bumrah 2 (8)
Australia 15/1 in 6.2 overs
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Lots of chatter between Labuschagne and the Indians
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Wow Michael Gough comes in from square leg and has a word with Virat Kohli after Labuschagne runs two off the second ball from Bumrah. Then Gough comes back in after the fourth ball to have a word with Labuschagne. There is a lot of chirp from the Indian fielders for the two Australian batters at the moment, a real cauldron for them to deal with.
Australia 13/1 in 5 overs
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Two runs off the first over of the day, Bumrah from the other end
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Konstas tucked the first one off the hip and ran two off the first ball of the day. No runs after that but not much jeopardy for the batter either. Now the chorus around the bat increases as Jasprit Bumrah takes the ball from the other end.
Australia 11/1 in 4 overs
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: The players walk out!
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: All right then. Bumrah bowled the last over yesterday and so it won't be him first up today, Siraj has the ball in his hands. Sam Konstas will be on strike, Marnus Labuschagne is the new man at the other end, replacing Usman Khawaja.
Australia 9/1 in 3 overs
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: A new record awaits for Jasprit Bumrah
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Bumrah has taken a whopping 31 wickets in this series. He is now level with Bishan Singh Bedi's record for most wickets by an Indian in a Test series in Australia and so surely he will be breaking that today.
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Scenes from the ground...
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Jasprit Bumrah and Virat Kohli gave a couple of pretty animated speeches in the team huddle and now they are all going through the warm-ups. Nice and bright at the SCG, unlike what was the case yesterday.
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Shubman Gill's bizarre throwaway
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Shubman Gill had looked nice and compact throughout the first session. He went down the track and tapped on the pitch to delay the delivery of the last ball before Lunch by Nathan Lyon, prompting a bit of sledging from Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne. Gill replied back to Smith, took guard, and then inexplicably charged down the track last ball of the session. It was only one of many examples in this series of an Indian batter losing his cool and throwing away all his hard work in a moment of madness.
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Virat Kohli's astonishing Test slump
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Kohli has not had the best time of it in Test cricket since 2020 but this season was his chance to show that he has truly turned his form around in all formats of the game and not just in ODIs. Instead, it seems to have got worse than ever in this series. Kohli has made just 184 runs in this series at an average of 26.28, with just one century and overall just two scores above 20.
In the ongoing ICC World Test Championship 2023-25, Virat has scored just 745 runs in 14 matches at an average of 33.86, with just two centuries and three fifties in 24 innings and the best score of 121.
In 39 Tests since 2020, Virat has aggregated just 2,022 runs at an average of 31.10, with three centuries and nine fifties only to show for in 68 innings, with best score of 186.
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Virat Kohli's outside off stump voodoo
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Virat Kohli's weakness outside off was exposed all the way back in 2014 when James Anderson made him his bunny in England. And then, Kohli went on the kind of run that players can only dream of for the next five years and this included a bumper series back in England. Now, though, that outside off ghost has returned to haunt him and how. He batted with great discipline yesterday and yet, after all that hard work, grinding out 17 runs in 69 balls, he felt for one outside off and was caught at slips, as he had been countless times in his career.
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Rishabh Pant's blockathon
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Rishabh Pant looked anything but his natural self on Day 1 and that either says a lot about his willingness to adapt or was his response to a possible barracking he may have got after what he did in the fourth Test. Or, at the end of it all, it may have been exactly what he said it was - the ball was doing too much and he decided to just wait for the loose ones to come and play out the others.
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Sanjay Manjrekar tears into India's handling of the Rohit Sharma situation
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Sanjay Manjrekar has said that he fails to understand why the Indian team can't be more forthcoming of what went into the decision of Rohit Sharma resting himself, as Jasprit Bumrah put it. "Our captain has shown leadership by opting to rest in this game," Bumrah had said at the toss.
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Another sub-par batting show from India
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Pant himself admitted that India's 185 all out is not a par total despite the nature of the surface. This was the eighth time in the 2024/25 Test season that India were all out for a score less than 185, the joint-most such totals for any team in a Test season.
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Rishabh Pant and Beau Webster talk about the Konstas-Bumrah bust-up
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Pant and Webster had come for the post-day press conferences yesterday for both teams and both players were asked about the argy-bargy. As expected, both said a lot without saying too much.
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Khawaja stuck in Bumrah's pocket
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Usman Khawaja has not had a good time of it in this series against Jasprit Bumrah.
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Some controversy around Smith/Labuschagne non-catch off Kohli
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: Probably the major flashpoint before that last ball was when Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne seemed to combine to take an incredible catch and send Virat Kohli back for a golden duck, only for the third umpire to decide that the former had grounded the ball.
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: The drama before the last ball yesterday
India vs Australia 5th Test Day 2 LIVE Score: In case you missed it, here is a video of what happened yesterday. It is not everyday that you get to see Bumrah in this way and, as stated earlier, Konstas may regret riling him up in this manner.
