Border-Gavaskar Trophy: Josh Hazlewood and Australia demolished India in their last pink-ball Test in Adelaide in 2020. (AP)
India vs Australia: With not a lot of exposure to Pink-Ball cricket in recent years, India will be going into only their fifth Day-Night Test match when they face Australia in the second Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, starting Friday in Adelaide.
India will be playing a Day-Night Test away from home for the second time, with the previous occurrence also being at the same venue when they toured Australia in 2020-21.
India will be going into the Adelaide Oval with hopes to forget their last Test outing at the venue and rewrite the past. India had a good start to the match then, scoring 244 in the first innings with the help of Virat Kohli’s gritty knock of 74 off 180 balls, supported by Cheteshwar Pujara’s 43 (160) and Ajinkya Rahane’s 42 (92).
Australia pacer Mitchell Starc proved to be trouble to the Indian batting unit, as he bagged four wickets to his name while fellow seamer Pat Cummins followed him with his three.
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India off-spinner R Ashwin did not let Australia take the lead very easily and scalped four wickets, restricting the hosts to 191 in their first essay. But when India came in to bat under the lights again on Day 2, Cummins worked his magic and rattled Prithvi Shaw’s stumps.
In a stunning catastrophe, India lost their hold on the match as soon as Day 3 began, losing five wickets in the first hour of play. It was pure carnage from the Australian bowling line-up after that, as Josh Hazlewood and Cummins paired up to topple the Indian batting. Soon after the drinks break, the pair cleaned up the Indian side, getting them all-out for just 36, giving Australia a target of 90 runs with almost three full days of play remaining. India also lost pacer Mohammed Shami for the remainder of the series due to a forearm fracture, owing to a bouncer from Cummins.
Opener Joe Burns steered the Australian ship with a well made 53 in the chase, guiding the side to a breezy eight-wicket win.
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