India vs Australia Highlights, 2nd Test Day 2 Border Gavaskar Trophy: Head, Aussie seamers put hosts in control at stumps on Day 2 - The Times of India (2025)

It has been an excellent day for Australia all through bar, perhaps, the first hour when Jasprit Bumrah pocketed two wickets. Marnus Labuschagne got the job started with a fifty before Travis Head joined in with a quick-fire century at his home ground. His 140-run knock may well have put the game beyond India's reach. In the end, Australia took a 157-run lead with Siraj, Bumrah both taking four wickets each

In response, the Indian batting were done for by the Aussie quicks under the lights. Starc, Cummins and Boland all applied pressure and have been rewarded for their wicket-to-wicket bowling. Boland and Cummins picked two wickets each while Starc cleaned up Gill with a lovely inswinger. At close, Pant and Nitish held the fort and have much to do on Day 3. Join us then as the Border-Gavaskar Trophy continues

FOUR! Last ball of the day. Nitish on the strike. Boland runs up. Carey is standing up to the stumps. Nitish goes hard on the drive against the length ball. Thick inside edge and the ball runs away to the square leg boundary

India close the day out at 128/5, trail by 29 runs

Rohit Sharma loses his off stump and has to walk after contributing just six to the Indian total. India are five down and the collapse continue. Cummins with an angling delivery, Rohit defends inside the line but it shapes away a touch and castles him. Cummins celebrates by jumping in the air and punches the air in utter joy. That's job done?

Rohit b Cummins 6(15)

India 106/5

Unfazed by the fall of Virat Kohli and Shubman Gill, an aggressive Rishabh Pant takes on Scott Boland, hitting him for consecutive boundaries on either sides of the wicket.

Pant first smacked a wide Boland delivery to the extra-cover fence and then followed it up with an audacious pull behind square-leg to add 8 runs to his and India's total.

With those couple of boundaries from Pant, 100 also came up for India in the 19th over.

Rohit Sharma is given out LBW second-ball but Mitchell Starc has bowled a no ball. What a moment in the game!

A wicket taken off a no ball and it has been snatched away from Starc.

Starc bowled another in dipper from over the wicket and Rohit was caught in front of the stumps. Umpire Chris Gaffaney raised his finger instantly but soon after ruling Rohit out, he raises his hand again. A signal for a no ball.

Replay later also showed that Rohit got his bat down in time and had got the inside edge before the ball struck his pad. He he would have gone for the review as well. But as it is a no ball, no review is needed as Rohit survives.

India 88/4

OUT! Bowled! Mitchell Starc you absolute beauty! A cracking delivery from the fiery left-arm pacer and Shubman Gill is beaten all ends up.

It was almost an unplayable ball as it tailed in from good length just outside off.

Gill is undone by the banana swing on the ball as middle stump goes for a toss.

Gill walks back for 28

India 86/4 in 17.2 overs

Dropped! A flying Steve Smith fails to hold on to the ball at second slip as Shubman Gill gets a lifeline.

Mitchell Starc fires in a quick good length ball outside off and Gill went after it. Gets the outside edge and the ball flew to slip cordon.

If there would have been a third slip, Gill would have bee a gonner.

But with just two slips and a gully, the ball flew to right of Smith --at second slip, who latched on to the the ball, got a hand to it as well but is not able to hold on to the catch.

Great effort from him!

India 78/3 in 15.4 overs

OUT! India in big trouble now! Scott Boland produces a beauty and gets the big fish in form of Virat Kohli.

A perfect good length delivery at around the fourth-fifth stump channel from Boland and a tentative Kohli pushes at the ball.

Gets the outside edge as keeper Alex Carey grabs an easy catch behind the stumps.

A disappointed Kohli walks back for 11 and India are now three down inside the first 15 overs of their second innings.

IND 66/3, trail by another 91 runs

GONE! Yashasvi Jaiswal is dismissed for 24 and Boland strikes off the first ball! In the first innings, Boland had dismissed KL Rahul on first ball, which was brought back for no ball. This one, though, is safe. Over the wicket, the ball angled away from the left hander and continued to keep its shape and seam movement, before changing course just a touch and picking the edge along the way. Carey with the simple catch. Australia have the momentum!

Jaiswal c Carey b Boland 24 (31)

India 42/2

KL Rahul at Adelaide Oval:

Matches: 2
Innings: 4
Runs: 90
Balls faced: 149
Average: 22.50

WICKET! Extra pace and bounce on the delivery by Pat Cummins and KL Rahul has to walk after scoring just 7 runs. It has been gloved as the ball made its way down the leg side. KL Rahul guilty of reacting slowly to it and was eventually hurried into making a decision and the pull was too late

KL Rahul c Carey b Cummins 7 (10)

India 12/1, trail by 145 runs

Mohammed Siraj castles Boland's off stump and Australia have been bowled out for 157 runs. That is a big lead for the hosts and India would now come to bat under the lights which is going to be a massive ask.

As for the final dismissal, Boland plays down the wrong line, Siraj beats the outside edge and knocks the off stump

Boland b Siraj 0 (9)

Australia 337 all out

GONE! First ball of the final session and it has been taken by Harshit Rana. That's a soft dismissal. Outside off, Starc has chipped it straight to Rana at mid-off

Starc c Harshit Rana b Siraj 18(15)

Australia 332/9

OUT! BOWLED! A cracker of a delivery from Jasprit Bumrah and Pat Cummins furniture is all over the place. And with that dismissal, umpires have decided to go for the Dinner break on the second day.

A searing 139kph full and swinging in delivery from Bumrah and Cummins went for the drive but was beaten by on the inside edge.

The nip backer from Bumrah hits the stumps as Cummins stay in the middle ends on 12.

So, Australia take another session as they go into the break at 332 for eight in their first innings and with a lead of 152 runs.

No bat and doing too much! A big booming in-swinger from Jasprit Bumrah and Pat Cummins is beaten by the pace and the sharp inward movement. The ball cuts right through him as Rishabh Pant takes a diving catch behind the stumps.

The Indians appeal for a caught behind but the on-field decision is not out.

Rohit Sharma sends it upstirs and the Snicko shows that there is no bat involved.

The third umpire then checks for LBW but ball-tracking shows that the ball is doing too much and is missing the leg stump.

So, Cummins survives a Bumrah thunderbolt!

AUS 316/7

SIX and OUT! A fiery send off from Mohammed Siraj as he knocks over Travis Head with a corker! Words exchanged between Head and Siraj after the centurion has his stumps shattered.

On the previous ball, Head had whacked Siraj over the deep fence for a maximum and the India pacer came up with a perfect response knocking over the centurion with a searing yorker.

As head failed to bring his bat down in time, the Siraj delivery crashed into his stumps.

After a heated exchange, Head walks back to the pavilion amid a huge applause from the crowd.

A masterful Head knock ends on 140(141).

AUS 310/7 in 81.4 overs

A slight injury scare for Team India and Jasprit Bumrah. The India spearhead was down as the team physio rushed to the centre to attend him.

Bumrah seemingly was holding his adductor muscle which was not a good sign.

Soon after bowling the third ball of his comeback over, that centurion Travis Head dispatched to the mid-wicket fence, Bumrah seemingly looked troubled and uneasy.

He got down on the ground as the physio attended him.

After getting some juices flowing and a bit of a massage, he is up and ready to bowl again!

As Ravichandran Ashwin completed the 80th over of the innings, bowling a maiden, the second new ball was available. And India have taken it straightaway!

Jasprit Bumrah has now also been brought back into the attack by skipper Rohit Sharma.

Can India strike early with the new pink cherry? They need to get rid of ton-up Travis Head as soon as possible.

AUS 291/6, lead by 111 runs

Edged but falls short! Pant Cummins gets really lucky. A terrific effort from Rishabh Pant behind the stumps but the ball drops just in front of his right hand before he spectacularly grabs it.

It was a 125kph full-ish delivery from Nitish Reddy and Cummins went for the drive.

Gets the thick outside edge but the ball doesn't carry. Pant dived to his right, grabbed the ball but it had landed just before going into his glove.

AUS 284/6 in 78.2 overs

WICKET! Mohammed Siraj is rewarded for toiling hard in the middle and under the sun. That's his first of the Test and Alex Carey walks back to the pavillion. Length ball, on the sixth-stump line, Carey pushes at it and gets a faint edge. Straight into Pant's gloves

Carey c Pant b Siraj 15 (32)

Australia are 282/6, lead by 102 runs

GONE! R Ashwin strikes! Long hard think by the umpire before putting the finger up just when the appeal had almost died down. Pitched outside off, Marsh with a defensive stroke forward, the ball straightens and gets the slightest of edges and Pant does the rest.

Marsh c Pant b Ashwin 9 (26)

Australia: 208/5, lead by 28 runs

Good length from Bumrah, on the sixth-stump line, Head cuts it between gully and backward point, pierces the gap with the open face of the bat. Very well placed and timed

Australia 198/4