Hosts Australia (AUS) continued to place India (IND) to work within the fourth Check of the continued Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT 2024-25). Resuming at 311/6, the house aspect rode on Steve Smith (140 off 197) and Pat Cummins (49 off 63) to march previous the 400-run mark. Notably, the pair put up a 112-run stand for the seventh wicket.
In a single remaining flourish, the tailenders pushed the rating to 474. Amongst notable bowling performances for Crew India, pacer Jasprit Bumrah claimed 4 wickets (4/99) whereas spinner Ravindra Jadeja (3/78) managed to maintain the injury in management by having three victims underneath his title. In reply to Australia’s enormous complete, the guests have been in bother early on of their innings as skipper Rohit Sharma couldn’t carry a couple of change in his fortunes as an opener after having batted at No. 6 within the earlier two Checks. KL Rahul who shuffled down the order, appeared good for some time however misplaced his stumps on the stroke of tea.
Yashasvi Jaiswal (82 off 118) and Virat Kohli put up a significant 102-run stand earlier than the previous’s run out induced a collapse that noticed India lose three wickets for simply six runs within the area of twenty-two balls. A kind of wickets was of the nightwatchman, Akash Deep. Consequently, at Stumps on Day 2, Crew India have been left reeling at 164/5 with Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja on the crease. At present, the guests path Australia by 310 runs.
In the meantime, listed below are the stats highlights from Day 2 of AUS vs IND fourth Check:
1 – Steve Smith registered his eleventh Check century in opposition to India and have become the participant with probably the most Check centuries in opposition to India, breaking the tie he held with Joe Root at 10.
1 – Smith made his tenth hundred within the Border-Gavaskar Trophy to change into the participant with probably the most centuries within the BGT breaking the tie he held with each Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli with 9 centuries, respectively.
3 – Steve Smith grew to become the third quickest batter to attain 34 Check centuries by the variety of innings taken to get to the mark. Smith obtained there in his 201st innings behind Sachin Tendulkar (192) and Ricky Ponting (193).
3 – The previous Australia Captain, Smith, now has the joint-third most Check a whole lot on the MCG, having scored his fifth hundred immediately. Jack Hobbs additionally had 5, whereas solely Matthew Hayden (6) and Don Bradman (9) have extra on the iconic venue.
99 – The variety of runs conceded by Jasprit Bumrah in Australia’s first innings is probably the most that he has conceded in a single innings in his Check profession.
84 – Jasprit Bumrah has now bowled in 84 innings in his Check profession with out ever conceding greater than 100 runs in an innings. Amongst pure bowlers, that is probably the most by a cushty margin, whereas a number of part-time bowlers have bowled in additional innings with out going over the 100-run mark.
1 – The premier India pacer, Bumrah, now has probably the most wickets by an Indian bowler in a single BGT collection in Australia. Bumrah now has 25 wickets within the ongoing collection going previous Anil Kumble’s 24 in 2003/04.
1 – Jasprit Bumrah broke his document for probably the most wickets taken by an Indian pacer in a single BGT collection. The fiery pacer had picked 21 wickets within the 2018/19 collection.
15 – Pat Cummins’ dismissal of Rohit Sharma was the fifteenth time that Cummins as skipper had dismissed his reverse quantity in Check cricket. He’s now joint-second on the checklist of bowler-skippers who’ve dismissed the opposing skipper most occasions in Checks with Imran Khan and Jason Holder. Richie Benaud leads the checklist with 18 such dismissals.
1 – Yashasvi Jaiswal made his eleventh rating of fifty or extra in Checks this yr. It’s the joint-most alongside Joe Root for this yr. Jaiswal has yet another innings left this yr and will overtake Root.
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