During the second innings, India, desperately looking for a healthy lead, was stifled really hard by Cummins, who took 5/57 in 14 overs, with an economy rate of 4.10. His list of victims included KL Rahul, skipper Rohit Sharma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Ravichandran Ashwin and Harshit Rana. Ind
India's bowling coach Morne Morkel believed that his side may have erred in failing to get the right lines and lengths on the first evening of the game. Australia managed to bat through the evening on day 1, adding 86 runs for the loss of merely one wicket
At Tea, Australia was at 332/8, with Mitchell Starc (18*) unbeaten. Head increased lead over India to 152 runs with a brilliant knock of 140, slamming yet another big score against India.
Ahead of the Adelaide Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia, India skipper Rohit Sharma heaped praise on youngsters Harshit Rana and Nitish Kumar Reddy and said that they possess a lot of talent.
Former cricketer Ravi Shastri feels throwing Akash Deep into the mix for the Adelaide Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series will offer a different attacking option to India against Australia.
Ahead of the Adelaide Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia, Team India shifted focus to fielding, having taken a 1-0 lead in the series.
A four-wicket haul from pacer Harshit Rana and authoritative knocks from a returning Shubman Gill, Nitish Kumar Reddy and Yashasvi Jaiswal helped India secure a five-wicket win over Australia's Prime Ministers' XI in their pink-ball warm-up match at Canberra's Manuka Oval on Sunday.
Abhishek Nayar was particularly enthusiastic about Harshit Rana's journey and performance. Rana came with a storm in the first Test match in Perth, and the debutant scalped 4 wickets, three in the first innings and one in the second.
Cheteshwar Pujara doesn't want to see a change in India's bowling attack for the second Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia next week.
The entire Test match was primarily dominated by India across all departments as Australia stood speechless on their knees throughout the four days of play.