IND vs AUS 4th Test Day 2 Highlights: Australia has tightened its grip on the Boxing Day Test being played between India and Australia in Melbourne. Although, at one time India had made a strong comeback, everything changed in the last 20 minutes of the second day and the match again turned towards Australia. The Australian team was all out for 474 runs on the second day in the Melbourne Test. After this, the Indian team has lost 5 wickets for 164 runs by the end of the day’s play. Team India is currently 310 runs behind Australia. At the time of stumps, Rishabh Pant returned unbeaten on 06 runs and Ravindra Jadeja on 04 runs.
At one time, India had lost two wickets for 153 runs, but then the fate of the match changed as soon as Jaiswal was run out. India lost three wickets in just 6 runs. Yashasvi Jaiswal was out on 82, Virat Kohli 36, KL Rahul 24, Rohit Sharma 03 and Akashdeep was out on zero. Pat Cummins and Scott Boland took two wickets each for Australia.
Virat and Jaiswal made a century partnership
In the fourth test, Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal came to start the innings. Rohit’s bad form continued. He also flopped as an opener. Rohit Sharma was out after scoring three runs in five balls. Then KL Rahul, who came at number three, scored 24 runs in 42 balls with the help of three fours. India had lost two wickets for 51 runs.
After this there was a century partnership between Jaiswal and Virat Kohli. Both added 102 runs for the third wicket. Jaiswal was run out on 82 runs. As soon as he was out, the fate of the match changed. He played an innings of 82 runs in 118 balls with the help of 11 fours and one six. Then Virat also returned to the pavilion on 36 runs. Virat hit 4 fours in his innings. The fifth wicket fell in the form of Nightwatch man Akashdeep.
Steve Smith’s century
Earlier, Australia scored a huge score of 474 runs in its first innings. For the first time in the last 10 years, the Kangaroos scored more than 450 against India. Steve Smith played an inning of 140 runs for Australia. Pat Cummins scored an important 49 runs. For India, Jasprit Bumrah took 4 wickets and Ravindra Jadeja took 3 wickets.
