India vs Australia, 2nd Test Match Day 3 Live Score© AFP
India vs Australia 2nd Test Day 3 Live Updates: Rishabh Pant and Nitish Reddy will aim to fight back for India in the ongoing pink-ball Test against Australia at Adelaide Oval on Sunday. The second day of the contest was also dominated by the hosts, who earlier had a terrific opening day. Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj picked four wickets each as India bundled out Australia for 337. Despite a decent bowling effort, the visitors gave away a 157-run lead. To make things worse for India, the Australian pacers wreaked havoc and reduced the side to 128 for 5 by the end of play on Saturday. At stumps, India trailed Australia by 29 runs, with Rishabh Pant and Nitish Reddy being the batters at the crease. (Live Scorecard)
Here are the Live Updates of India vs Australia 2nd Test Day 3
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09:20 (IST)
IND vs AUS 2nd Test Day 3, Live: Siraj on Travis Head
UHH HOOO!!!! Before the start of the play, India pacer Mohammed Siraj opens up on his controversial send-off to Travis Head on Day 2. In an interaction with former India spinner Harbhajan Singh, Siraj said, “I was just doing my normal celebration. He is a liar. He lied to everyone that he said ‘well bowled’ home. We all know that he was saying something else. The send-off that I gave was in retaliation of his words. We respect every player as cricket is gentlemen’s game.”
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08:56 (IST)
IND vs AUS 2nd Test Day 3, Live: Travis Head- India’s biggest nemesis
Travis Head continued to be a thorn in India’s flesh with yet another magnificent knock that powered Australia’s response after bowling out India for 180. Head, who got off the mark with a cracking boundary off Jasprit Bumrah (4/61), got a reprieve on 76 as Mohammed Siraj failed to complete the catch despite getting both hands to it after the batter tried to slog-sweep R Ashwin, having just smashed his third six against the off-spinner.
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08:46 (IST)
IND vs AUS 2nd Test Day 3, Live: India’s struggle against Australian pacers
India lost KL Rahul (7) early in their second innings and Yashasvi Jaiswal (24) was done in by a peach of a delivery from Scott Boland, who again struck with his first delivery that had a hint of late movement. Boland then had Virat Kohli (11) caught behind after he got one to land right in the channel which has been troubling the Indian batting mainstay for a while now. To make matters worse for the visitors, Mitchell Starc knocked down Shubman Gill’s (28) middle stump with his late in-swing doing the damage to leave India at 86 for four in front of a record crowd of over 50,000.
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08:26 (IST)
IND vs AUS 2nd Test Day 3, Live: All eyes on Pant-Reddy
Indian batters struggled to find answers as the Australia quicks sizzled with the pink ball under the lights. The hosts had dismissed half the Indian team by the 21st over. Now, the onus is on the shoulders of Rishabh Pant and Nitish Kumar Reddy to bring India out of the trouble.
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08:24 (IST)
IND vs AUS 2nd Test Day 3, Live: Dominating Day 2 for Australia
The pace trio of Mitchell Starc, Scott Boland and Pat Cummins ripped through the Indian top order to put Australia in the drivers seat after Travis Head (140) and Marnus Labuschagne (64) helped the hosts take a sizeable 157-run first-innings lead.
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08:22 (IST)
IND vs AUS 2nd Test Day 3, Live: India trail by 29 runs
India tottered to 128 for 5 in their second innings, still trailing Australia by 29 runs at stumps on day two of the pink ball Test in Adelaide on Saturday.
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08:15 (IST)
IND vs AUS 2nd Test Day 3, Live: Hello
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of Day 3 of the ongoing second Test of the Border-Gavaskar series between India and Australia, straight from the Adelaide Oval. Stay tuned for all the live coverage.
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