India vs Australia Highlights, 2nd Test Day 2 Border Gavaskar Trophy: Head, Aussie seamers put hosts in control at stumps on Day 2

Marnus Labuschagne now has four fifties and four hundreds in day-night Tests

Mohammed Siraj's 10th over of the first innings against Australia on Day 1 of the second Test could land him in hot waters. The India seamer had a throw at Marnus Labuschagne in frustration even as the Aussie batter pulled away following a disruption near the sight screen.

The decision to throw the ball near the batter goes against ICC's rules and he could be penalised on conclusion of the second Test in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy at Adelaide Oval.

During the incident in the 25th over of the Australian innings, a spectator carrying a long beer-snake walked past the sight-screen as Siraj was about to bowl. Labuschagne, understandably, withdrew from his stance.

Siraj reacted to the distraction by throwing the ball at the stumps. The ball missed the stumps and the batter as well.

As per ICC Code of Conduct, Siraj is in breach of the rules. As per clause 2.9, Siraj was supposedly guilty of: “throwing a ball (or any other item of cricket equipment such as a water bottle) at or near a Player, Player Support Personnel, Umpire, Match Referee or any other third person in an inappropriate and/or dangerous manner during an International Match”.

Left-arm pacer Mitchell Starc’s affinity of taking wickets with the pink Kookaburra ball in day-night Tests continued when his career-best haul of 6-48 in 14.1 overs helped Australia bowl out India for 180 on day one of the Adelaide Test.

On a pitch with six mm grass, Starc trapped Yashasvi Jaiswal lbw with the very first delivery of the game, with many made to recall the way he castled Rory Burns at the Gabba in 2021. He then made a double strike to dismiss KL Rahul and Virat Kohli, before taking out Ravichandran Ashwin, Harshit Rana, and Nitish Kumar Reddy to end with his first Test five-for against India.

"I don't know. I can't tell. Feel like the ball has been coming out well; we did not play that bad; they played better than us in Perth. Not that much to be honest (on if he visualised getting swing first-ball to Jaiswal). Nothing really changes game by game, was a nice start," said Starc to broadcasters.

His lethal spell blowing India away meant Starc consolidated his position as the leading wicket-taker in pink-ball Tests, and has the most five-wicket hauls in this form of playing Test cricket. He also said he had cramps towards the end of his spell due to humid weather in Adelaide.

"Certainly did not help the engine, got a bit cramped at the end. It (the pink ball) goes through weird patches, won't do much and then does go, day 1 you expect with a little bit of grass to do a bit, maybe with the forecast we have it dries out a bit later on but apart from the first hour when we were a bit wide we were good."

Jasprit Bumrah couldn't spell his magic on day one of India's pink-ball Test against Australia in Adelaide, but the home team's batters were looking to see him off rather than score off him, which showed in Bumrah's figures.

But former Pakistan batter Basit Ali could read the fear in Aussie eyes while facing the Indian bowling spearhead, which, he believes, was last seen when they faced the legendary Wasim Akram.

India batters failed like in the first innings at Perth and the visitors' innings folded up for 180 after skipper Rohit Sharma opted to bat. India had the chance to bowl under lights with the pink ball after tea, which is the period when it moves the most.

But Marnus Labuschagne and Nathan McSweeney negotiated that difficult period to take the hosts to 86 for 1 at stumps on the first day, trailing by only 94 runs.

"Australia are focusing on Bumrah," said Basit in a video on his YouTube channel.

"They won't take a chance against him. Maine agar Wasim Akram ke baad Australians ko kisi bowler se ghabraate hue dekha hai, toh woh Bumrah hai (after Wasim Akram, if I have seen the Australians scared of a bowler, it is Bumrah). They never took a chance against Wasim, always tried scoring from the other end."

The opening day of the second Test between India and Australia at Adelaide Oval on Friday was marked by an unusual and frustrating interruption — a floodlight failure that halted play twice in quick succession during Australia’s first innings.

The incident caused the stadium to be plunged into darkness in the final session of the day, leaving players and fans alike puzzled.

The disruption came at a pivotal moment during India’s bowling attack, with pacer Harshit Rana bowling at the time, as witnessed in a video that has since gone viral across social media platforms.

As the lights flickered off, he appeared visibly frustrated, with his rhythm completely broken by the delay.

After a brief pause, the match resumed, but the floodlight failure had already sparked a frenzy on social media, where fans couldn’t resist commenting on the strange turn of events.

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India speedster Mohammed Siraj on Friday angrily threw a ball at Marnus Labuschagne after his late pull out as tempers flared up late in the final session on the opening day of the second day-night Test in Adelaide.

With Siraj, who was almost about to deliver the ball, forced into pulling out of his delivery stride, the angry pacer vented out anger at Labuschagne, throwing the ball at the batter in an unpleasant scenes.

The incident took place in the 25th over of the Australian innings when a spectator, unknowingly, walked right behind a Siraj, holding a number of cups in his hand.

As the fan was right in Labuschagne's eye-line and behind the sight-screen, the Aussie batter had to pull out. But that didn't go down well with Siraj as he was just about to deliver the ball.

After the late Labuschagne pull out, Siraj eventually stopped himself from delivering the ball but then shot it at stumps to convey his displeasure.

In cricket, a "duck" refers to a batter being dismissed without scoring a single run. There are eight different types of ducks, some of which can make the return to the pavilion even more embarrassing.

During the second Test match between India and Australia in Adelaide, Indian batter Yashasvi Jaiswal was dismissed for a duck on the very first delivery of the match.

After captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and chose to bat, Mitchell Starc bowled a full, swinging delivery on leg stump. Jaiswal moved too far across, missed an attempted glance, and was struck on the shin in front of the stumps. The umpire raised his finger immediately, signaling the end of his short stay.

This dismissal was a 'platinum' or 'royal' duck, which occurs when a batter is dismissed on the very first ball of the match.

India allrounder Nitish Reddy played a vital knock of 42 off 54 balls, stabilizing India’s innings and demonstrating his composure in high-pressure situations.

His knock was studded with 3 fours and 3 sixes.

Jasprit Bumrah dismissed Australian opener Usman Khawaja to reach the milestone of 50 Test wickets in the calendar year 2024, becoming only the third Indian seamer to achieve this feat. He joins the illustrious company of Kapil Dev and Zaheer Khan in this elite club.

The breakthrough came when Bumrah found the edge of Khawaja’s bat, with Rohit Sharma taking a sharp catch at slip.

It was India’s lone wicket on a challenging Day 1.

Perth wasn’t an outlier. India and Australia kept Test cricket’s flag flying high here as the series acquired an edgy tone. The absorbing day evoked memories of past skirmishes and reminded us why reprising a five-Test series between these two is an idea whose time has come.

You could see it even before a ball was bowled, when the turnstiles went into overdrive as the crowd swelled on a working day.

You could see it when Mitchell Starc all but copyrighted the phrase ‘smiling assassin’ with just one delivery, his first, ripping apart Yashasvi Jaiswal’s manicured swagger and then letting out a satisfying roar.

Fear of the twilight hour is real in day-night Tests. As the shadows lengthened across the Adelaide Oval and the giant light-emitting diodes woke up from their slumber, Australia’s top order — caught in the middle at the wrong time — would have known it was time for the new pink ball to begin hunting for prey. Instead, in the eerie floodlit halo, it was India’s bowlers who had a nerve-jangling time trying to control the beast.

At times the bowlers were magnificent, at other times overwhelmed by the ball’s tendency to acquire a mind of its own. Perhaps they were guilty of not pitching it up often. By stumps, Marnus Labuschagne and Nathan McSweeney had done a splendid job of surviving the nightmare period to put Australia on a better footing at 86/1, having restricted India to 180 in the first innings.

As openers Usman Khawaja and McSweeney seemed content to leave 18 of the first 30 balls they faced, Jasprit Bumrah and his cohorts, Mohammed Siraj and Harshit Rana, knew they had a problem on their hands. The pink rock was simply doing too much.

McSweeney hopped and skipped and even got a reprieve, the ball swinging so much that neither wicketkeeper Pant nor Rohit Sharma at slip could latch on to it. The batsman kept his poise and focused on leaving the ball. Khawaja too looked like biding his time until Bumrah finally hit his straps on the last ball of his sixth over, bowling a short-of-length delivery which angled away to just catch the edge of a retreating bat. That dismissal turbocharged India, and they upped both the ante and the chatter.

Virat Kohli is a livewire on the field as he consistently maintains high spirits with his antics on the field. During the first day of the pink ball Test against Australia at Adelaide Oval, Kohli's animated conversations, captured by the stump microphone, gained attention across social media platforms.

India's pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah delivered an exceptional ball outside the off stump that completely outfoxed Australian batter Marnus Labuschagne. The delivery was so impressive that it drew praise from Kohli, who could not stop himself praising Bumrah, saying, "He's got no clue, he's got no clue, Jass."


Kohli also caught attention for his well-known superstitious act when Indian bowlers were struggling to take Australian wickets. Kohli was seen experimenting with his luck as he walked up to the stumps and swapped the bails at one end in a bid to turn the team's fortunes around.

Kohli, who roared back to form in Perth with an unbeaten century, failed to get the momentum going as he was no match for pacer Mitchell Starc this time, out for seven when Steve Smith collected a slip catch.

A technical glitch hilariously made India pacer Mohammed Siraj world's fastest bowler on Friday as the speed gun saw him clocking an astonishing 181.6 kmph on the opening day of the second Test against Australia in Adelaide.

On the day that saw 11 wickets falling, an Indian collapse, a solid Nathan McSweeney-Marnus Labuschagne stand and rising tempers, the Siraj speed blunder from the broadcasters late in third session also hogged the limelight.

The rare and bizarre incident happened in the 25th over of the Australian innings, when Siraj fired in rising back of a length delivery outside off, which Marnus Labuschagne glided down to deep backward point for a boundary.

However, soon after the delivery was completed, the bottom of the screen showed that Siraj had clocked a record 181.6 kph ball.

The blunder was instantly caught by the fans and led to a meme fest on social media.

Much like the first day of the opening Test, the second Test also witnessed a wicket-ravaged start in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. If the first Test had 17 wickets fall on Day 1 in Perth, the day-night Test in Adelaide accounted for 11 wickets on Friday. 10 of those 11 wickets belonged to India who lost their last nine wickets for 111 runs. At the other end, they lost a wicket on the first ball of the contest.

Once looking at reaching 200-250 runs, India were dismissed for 180 and led by 94 runs at close with the Aussies reaching 86/1 at stumps.

Mitchell Starc claimed a career-best 6/48 and was the lynchpin behind India's collapse inside two sessions. With the new pink ball in hand, Starc struck first ball to send Yashasvi Jaiswal packing and his massive roar made clear how much they fancied that wicket. Jaiswal had struck a match-changing 161 runs in Perth to put the game beyond Australia's reach.

Just when KL Rahul and Shubman Gill looked to be getting into the groove of things, Starc returned to end the 69-run stand with KL guiding the ball to Nathan McSweeney at gully. Next over, Virat Kohli's indicisiveness got the better of him as well to become Starc's third.

Starc dismissed R Ashwin for 22 and bowled Harshit Rana in the same over to complete his five-wicket haul - his first against India in Test cricket.

With backs against the wall, Nitish Kumar Reddy tried to go into the attack but was done in by the extra pace from Starc.