IND vs AUS LIVE Score, 2nd Test Day 2: India 88/4 with Kohli, Jadeja unbeaten; trail Australia by 175 runs
IND vs AUS LIVE Score, 2nd Test Day 2: India 88/4 with Kohli, Jadeja unbeaten; trail Australia by 175 runs
12:16 (IST)
India 88/4 after 36 overs
Right. We're back for the post-lunch session. A crucial session coming up for Team India. Jadeja on strike. Nathan Lyon with the ball. Lyon starts off with a maiden.
11:35 (IST)
India 88/4 after 35 overs
Matthew Kuhnemann bowls the last over of the session. Jadeja collects a single and rotates strike to Kohli in the first bal of the over. Kohli follows a defensive approach for the rest of the over, and just the single come off the over. That will be lunch on Day 2. Four wickets have fallen this session, and India have managed just to add just 67 runs so far to their overnight total. The hosts trail Aussies by 175 runs. Virat Kohli (14*) and Ravindra Jadeja (15*) the unbeaten batters, having put on 22 runs together so far. We will be back in 40 minutes for the post-lunch session.
11:30 (IST)
India 87/4 after 34 overs
Todd Murphy into the attack. It's a maiden over, tidy stuff from Murphy. India trail by 176 runs.
11:17 (IST)
India 76/4 after 30 overs
Nathan Lyon contrinues. Jadeja is the new batter partnering Virat Kohli. He got off the mark with a single off the previous over, and collects a boundary off this one. He gets on the backfoot and slots it between point and cover for four.
11:00 (IST)
OUT! Another one bites the dust! Shreyas Iyer is the latest to depart as he is caught by Peter Handscomb at short leg. Shreyas Iyer's return to cricket from injury does not go to plan with the bat, at least in the first innings. Shreyas Iyer c Handscomb b Lyon 4
10:54 (IST)
India 65/3 after 25 overs
Todd Murphy into the attack for the first time in this match. There's a review for a catch, with Shreyas Iyer on strike. Ball-tracking shows it's pitching in line, but impact says it's outside leg stump, and Iyer survives. Australia, however, have now lost all reviews. Two off Murphy's over.
10:42 (IST)
India 57/3 after 22 overs
So, two new batters for India in Virat Kohli and Shreyas Iyer after losing quick wickets early on Day 2. Cheteshwar Pujara, playing his 100th Test, is the latest to depart as he is dismissed by Lyon without scoring. Kohli and Iyer have their task cut out to try and rebuild India's innings.
10:37 (IST)
OUT! Cheteshwar Pujara is dismissed for a duck in the first innings of his 100th Test match. He's struck LBW. The original decision is not out, but Australia make use of the only review they have left. It's indeed pad first, and ball-tracking shows three reds. Pujara lbw b Lyon 0
10:27 (IST)
OUT! Double blow for India as skipper Rohit Sharma departs. Nathan Lyon with his second wicket as he cleans up Rohit for 32. Australia have got two of the most important India wickets early on Day 2. Rohit b Lyon 32
10:23 (IST)
India 53/1 after 19 overs
Nathan Lyon with the breakthrough for Australia after he removes KL Rahul for 17. Rahul is given LBW, but he reviews this one. There's no bat involved as the UltraEdge shows, but it's clipping leg stump. Cheteshwar Pujara, playing his 100th Test for India, is the new batter at No 3, and just a couple of balls into his innings, he survives an LBW scare. Replays even showed it was three reds, but Australia decide not to review this. Opportunity lost for the Aussies to get rid of Pujara.
10:16 (IST)
OUT! KL Rahul's poor run of form continues, being dismissed for 17. He wasfacing Nathan Lyon, who appeals for LBW and is given out. Rahul reviews this decision. UltraEdge shows no bat involved, and the ball clipped leg stump after Rahul went forwarsd in defence. India retain their review, though, since the verdict was umpire's call on clipping the leg stump. Rahul lbw b Lyon 17
10:04 (IST)
India 43/0 after 15 overs
Cummins continues. There's an appeal for a catch at slip against Rahul. It's given not out, and Australia go for the review, but to no avail. UltraEdge shows nothing on the bat and it misses the inside edge. It will also not be LBW as the bal travelled over the stumps, with the ball hitting Rahul's back leg.
Two reviews lost for Australia in as many overs. The Aussies have just one review remaining, compared to India's three.
09:55 (IST)
India 41/0 after 14 overs
Kuhnemann continues. There's a huge appeal for LBW from the Aussies and Cummins decides to review this. UltraEdge shows there is no bat involved, but it's missing leg stump. Just a couple of balls later, Rahul launches a six, going over wide long on for the maximum. Good over for India with eight runs coming off it.
09:45 (IST)
India 28/0 after 12 overs
Kuhnemann continues. Rohit Sharma collects a couple of runs, flicking wide of short leg, but Cummins runs for the ball and saves a boundary. Five off the over.
09:44 (IST)
India 23/0 after 11 overs
Pat Cummins, Australia skipper, brings himself into the attack. India are off the mark today, with KL Rahul collecting a single by finding the vacant backward point region. Two runs off the over, with Rohit, too collecting a single off the last ball to retain strike for the next over.
09:35 (IST)
India 21/0 after 10 overs
Right. Time for LIVE action. Matthew Khunemann into the attack first up for Australia, with Rohit Sharma facing him. Testing times for the Team India skipper, and more importantly KL Rahul at the other end, who will look for a big individual score for himself. Kuhnemann starts off with a maiden over.
09:17 (IST)
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Day 1 of the second Test witnessed 284 runs being scored and 10 wickets falling, with Mohammed Shami taking four wickets to dismiss the Aussies for 263. On the sidelines of the Test, veteran batter Cheteshwar Pujara received a special cap from the legendary Sunil Gavaskar, on the occasion of Pujara's 100th Test. Check out top moments from Day 1 in photos here.
08:59 (IST)
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BREAKING NEWS: Senior Australia batter David Warner has been ruled out of the second Test with a concussion, and Matt Renshaw, who was initially dropped for the second Test, is confirmed to have replaced Warner in the playing XI.
Cricket Australia said in a statement: “David Warner will take no further part in the second Test match against India in Delhi having been diagnosed with concussion. He will be replaced in the team by Matthew Renshaw.”
08:45 (IST)
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India skipper Rohit Sharma and his deputy KL Rahul ensured the hosts suffered no hiccups in the nine overs that they batted after bowling the visiting team out, and will hope to convert the sedate start into a big opening stand on the second day of the Test.
While we wait for start of play on Day 2, do check out our recap of Day 1 here
08:22 (IST)
Hello and welcome to our LIVE blog of Day 2 of the second Test between India and Australia at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. India were 21/0 at stumps on Day 1, in reply to Australia's first innings of 263, which means the hosts still trail the Aussies by 242 runs. Stay tuned as we build up towards Day 2.
Day 1 report: Gritty half-centuries from Usman Khawaja and Peter Handscomb guided Australia to a fighting 263 all out against inspired Indian bowlers on Friday’s opening day of the second Test.
India reached 21 for no loss at stumps with the hosts still trailing Australia by 242 runs in New Delhi. Skipper Rohit Sharma, on 13, and KL Rahul, on four, were batting.
Australia worked with spin right from the second over with debutant Matthew Kuhnemann and Nathan Lyon bowling six overs between them.
Handscomb (72 not out) and Khawaja (81) played key knocks to boost Australia’s total after the tourists, who lost the opener of the four-match series inside three days, again elected to bat on another turning track.
Fast bowler Mohammed Shami took four wickets while spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja had three each.
“It is always challenging when you have quality bowlers like Ashwin and Jadeja, it is always tough work,” Khawaja told broadcaster Star Sports after the day’s play.
Australia’s 263 was “very competitive, it’s not easy out there,” he added. “There are few cracks. I think tomorrow will tell the tale which way this game is going.”
Shami wrapped up the Australian innings in the final session as he bowled Kuhnemann for six.
Khawaja’s knock came to an end before tea, with a stunning one-handed catch from KL Rahul giving left-arm spinner Jadeja his 250th Test wicket.
Rahul dived full stretch to his right to grab the ball on a reverse sweep from Khawaja, who fell to his knees in absolute disbelief.
Handscomb and Khawaja had put on 59 crucial runs in the second session before the latter’s departure.
But Handscomb kept up the grind and reached his fifth Test half-century in an eighth-wicket stand with skipper Pat Cummins, who made 33 before being trapped lbw by Jadeja.
Warner ‘weary’ –
Earlier Ashwin dismissed wicketkeeper Alex Carey for a duck for his third wicket of the day as India once again called the shots after a mini Australia fightback.
The off-spinner struck twice in one over before lunch including Marnus Labuschagne, for 18, and Steve Smith, for a duck, to put the tourists in trouble.
David Warner, who scored one and 10 in Nagpur in the first Test, was the first to go after taking 21 balls to score the first runs of his innings.
He had faced a barrage of short balls by seamer Mohammed Siraj and took a couple of blows, on the elbow and the back of the helmet.
Just when it looked like the left-handed opener had settled in, Shami produced a peach of a delivery that pitched and held its line from around the wicket, with the keeper taking the edge behind.
Warner did not come out to field and Khawaja said his fellow opener felt “weary” after the hit on the head.
“The medical staff will have to figure out what happens from here on in,” he added.
Shami said India’s fast bowlers knew the conditions well and the pitch was not necessarily suited for spinners.
“We get drilled into our heads that Indian pitches are slow and not for fast bowlers,” he said.
“It’s a good weapon if the short ball is used. Bouncer is a good option.”
Test specialist Cheteshwar Pujara was presented with a special cap on his landmark 100th match and entered the field through a corridor created by the players.
The hosts haven’t lost a Test at the venue — previously called Feroz Shah Kotla — since 1987.
With inputs from AFP
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