India vs Australia Highlights, 5th Test Day 2: IND crumble again, finish 141/6 at stumps, take 145-run lead
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 LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: India 141/6 (& 185) at Stumps on Day 2
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: A couple of tidy overs to finish the day's play. Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar are walking unbeaten back towards the pavilion. Meanwhile, Australia would be happy with how things turned out for them in this innings with the ball. India 141/6 (& 185) at Stumps on Day 2, lead Australia (181) by 145 runs in Sydney
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Jadeja hits four!
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Ravindra Jadeja played it down the ground over long-on for a boundary to break the shackles. India need the veteran all-rounder to rescue them from a tricky spot here to get back into the game. IND 137/6
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Nitish Kumar Reddy departs!
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: OUT! Nitish Kumar Reddy played a false shot and Scott Boland gets another here. The Aussie pacer clapped back at Nitish as India are six down here. Nitish was taking things calmly before that ball but went for a big shot and threw his wicket away. IND 129/6 in 27.3 overs
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Nitish and Pant cautious!
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Nitish Kumar Reddy and Rishabh Pant are batting with a cautious approach here after Rishabh Pant's departure. India need a partnership here to bounce back in the game and stretch lead past 200. IND 128/5 in 25 overs
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Pant falls!
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Rishabh Pant became a victim of Pat Cummins after an incredible counter-attacking half-century. The left-handed batter edged the ball behind the stumps to Alex Carey. His feet were frozen, and he threw his hands on the ball outside off-stump. An entertaining knock comes to an end. India 124/5 in 22.2 overs in second innings
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Rishabh Pant completes fifty with a six!
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Rishabh Pant reaches his fifty with a magnificent six over mid-wicket. He reaches the mark in 29 balls - T20 stuff from Pant at the moment. He deposited the ball in the stands quite comfortably as India continue to stretch the lead. IND 117/4 in 21.2 overs
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Hat-trick of fours for Pant!
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Rishabh Pant is in no mood to stop as he smashed Beau Webster for a hat-trick of boundaries to take control. He is not in the mood to slow down and bat with a defensive approach this innings and has decided to take on the bowlers to put the pressure back on them. IND 97/4 in 18 overs
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Bumrah returns but no update on his injury!
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Jasprit Bumrah has returned, but we are still awaiting information on what he did or what kind of scan he underwent. India would be hoping for him to return to lead the Indian team in the fourth innings.
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Bumrah back in the ground!
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Jasprit Bumrah has returned to the stadium and it's a good sign for Team India. He is walking comfortably and entered the Indian dressing. We might see him in the whites soon.
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Shubman Gill departs!
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Another one bites the dust as this time Shubman Gill gets dismissed. India in deep trouble now as Shubman Gill charged down the ground in search of a big shot but only managed to edge it and Alex Carey takes a fine catch. Beau Webster opens his account. IND 78/4 in 15.2 overs
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Four for Pant!
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: A wristy flick from Rishabh Pant to hit a boundary off Pat Cummins' delivery. It seems like Rishabh Pant has got the license from dressing room today to go out and play his shots. IND 78/3 in 15 overs
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: First ball six for Pant!
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Wow Scott Boland just dismissed Kohli with the first ball of that 14th over. Pant comes out and charges Boland the very next ball, smmashes the ball over mid-on for a six. He is beaten next ball and then he goes for a reverse ramp fourth ball! There was a deep third there and so he is probably lucky that he missed that entirely. Three runs off the last two balls after that.
India 68/3, lead by 72 runs
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: OUT! Kohli's tour with the bat ends with one last push outside off
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: He roars and punches his pads before walking off. Scott Boland has taken his third.
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Kohli pulls with authority!
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Boland continues for the 12th over, Gill and Kohli take a single each off the first three balls and then Boland misses his length a bit fourth ball and Kohli pounces. Rocks back and puls it past mid-on along the ground for a four. Kohli is on six off 11 balls, Gill on seven off six.
India 55/2 in 12 overs
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Kohli off the mark
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Kohli gets off the mark with the very first delivery that he faced and then keeps Cummins out for the entirety of the 11th over. He is the acting captain, can that be the catalyst for him to break out of his funk?
India 48/2 in 11 overs
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: GONE! It's Jaiswal and it is Boland again!
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Boland angles the fifth ball of the 10 full on off. Jauswal swipes across the line but misses it The bal takes he top of off.
Jaiswal b Boland 22 (35)
India 48/2 in 10 overs
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: OUT! Boland gets Rahul
IND vs AUS LIVE Score:: Boland cramps up Rahul and the batter chops on! This was full and wideish, angling into Rahul. The batter is enticed into goig for a drive and the ball crashes on tgo the stumps after taking an inside edge.
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Another classy shot for four from Rahul, now time for Boland...
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: 11 runs off the fifth over from Starc, he has made a rather expensive start here. Starc gets a leading edge off Jaiswal first ball, that flies right through point and the batters run two. A leg bye off the next ball and then the fifth ball flies over Rahul's gloves as he goes for a pull shot and evades Carey as well to go for four byes. Rahul connects the pull shot last ball and that goes past fine leg for a four. Rahul moves to eight off 11, Jaiswal on 20 off 19.
Now comes Scott Boland, dangerman in the first innings.
India 33/0 in 5 overs, lead by 37
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Rahul is away too
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Rahul drives Cummins handsomely past mid on last ball of the fourth and he is off the mark with a four off his seventh ball. India are flying away early on.
India 22/0 in 4 overs
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Just a run off the second and third overs
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Cummins bowls a maiden after that bumper first over and then Starc keeps things nice and tight in the third. Jaiswal took a single off the last ball of the latter over and stays on strike to face Cummins in the fourth. Jaiswal and India have scored 17 runs.
India lead by 21 runs
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: 16 RUNS IN THE FIRST OVER! Jaiswal lays into Starc
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Wow Jaiswal flashes at the fifth ball for a similar shot to the first two that got him four. Then he sends the last ball through cover for another four. What a start this is for India and their lead has already raced to 20 runs.
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: HAT-TRICK OF FOURS! Jaiswal making his intent clear
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Two identical shots off the second and third balls through the point area from Jaiswal and then the fourth is carved through point again on the front foot. Jaiswal cut the second over backward point off the backfoot and did almost the same next ball. How about that for a start.
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: KL Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal back for India
IND vs AUS LIVE Score: All right India may have done well with the ball but this is going to be a stern test to say the least for their batters now. There was steep bounce today for the Indian pacers and one can expect the Aussies to extract everything they can from the pitch.
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Tea has been taken...
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: The drama just refuses to die in this series. It has been Bumrah or nothing throughout for the Indian bowling attack on this tour but today, they burst through with five wickets after he was spotted leaving the stadium. Now Bumrah was not limping or looking ginger in any way as he walked off, which raises hopes of him maybe returning whenever Australia bat again. The mind goes back to earlier this year when Shamar Joseph seemed to be injured against Australia at the Gabba, only for him to come back, take seven wickets and lead the West Indies to a historic victory.
But India have been on the money today. Their fielding has been tight, they have dropped absolutely nothing and the rest of the bowlers have stepped up in Bumrah's absence. Prasidh Krishna looked almost out of his depth in his early overs but he has finished the day with figures of 3/42, an economy of 2.80 which is actually the best among the Indian bowlers. Siraj also took three while Nitish Kumar Reddy took two, as did Bumrah. Incredible stuff here. But one thing seems quite clear, it is going to be nightmarish for the Indian batters in this third session.
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: OUT! Australia 181 all out, India lead by 4 runs
India vs Australia LIVE Score, 5th Test Day 2: Siraj bursts through Boland's gates and that's that! The last wicket stand has produced 15 runs and was giving India all kinds of worries but Siraj does he job. India lead by a boundary.



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