- After registering a historic win in Perth, the Indian team had to face a humiliating defeat in the second match of the Border Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25. In the day-night Test match played in Adelaide, the Australian team made a spectacular comeback and won the match by 10 wickets.
After registering a historic win in Perth, the Indian team (IND vs AUS) had to face a humiliating defeat in the second match of the Border Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25. In the day-night Test match played in Adelaide, the Australian team made a spectacular comeback and won the match by 10 wickets.
With this, the Pat Cummins-led team has leveled the series 1-1. After winning the toss and coming to bat first, Rohit Sharma and company’s first innings were reduced to 180 runs. In response, the Kangaroo team took a lead of 157 runs by putting 337 runs on the scoreboard. After this, Team India collapsed for 175 runs in the second innings and set a target of 19 runs. Which Australia made in just 3.2 overs.
Indian team flopped in the first innings
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Team India (IND vs AUS), who won the toss and batted first, failed to perform well in the first innings. Australian bowler Mitchell Starc wreaked havoc and took six wickets. He took the wickets of Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Ravichandran Ashwin, Harshit Rana and Nitish Kumar Reddy. Yashasvi Jaiswal returned to the pavilion without opening his account. After this, KL Rahul and Shubman Gill tried to handle the innings by sharing 69 runs for the second wicket. But Mitchell Starc put India on the backfoot by dismissing KL Rahul and the team’s wickets started falling.
Nitish Kumar played a stormy innings
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Virat Kohli was out on 7 runs and Rohit Sharma on 3 runs. Meanwhile, Rishabh Pant scored 21 runs and Ravichandran Ashwin scored 22 runs. After five wickets fell on the score of 87 runs, young player Nitish Kumar Reddy came to bat and played an innings of 42 runs to take the team’s score to 180. Pat Cummins took the wickets of Jaspreet Bumrah and Rishabh Pant. Scott Boland sent Shubman Gill and Rohit Sharma back to the pavilion.
Travis Head thrashed the Indian bowlers
Australia’s (IND vs AUS) batsmen performed brilliantly against India. After Usman Khawaja was out for 13 runs, Marnus Labuschagne continued to increase the team’s score. He scored 64 runs in 126 balls. On the second day of the match, Nitish Kumar Reddy took his wicket and gave India a big success. However, after he returned to the pavilion, Travis Head put a spanner in the works and once again became Team India’s nightmare.
He scored 140 runs in 141 balls hitting 17 fours and four sixes, due to which the Kangaroo team scored 337 runs and gained a big lead. It proved very difficult for the Indian bowlers to stop the Australian batsmen from scoring runs. Jaspreet Bumraj and Mohammad Siraj took four wickets each. Nitish Kumar Reddy and Ravichandran Ashwin took one wicket each.
Indian batsmen got their noses cut
In the second innings (IND vs AUS), the Indian batsmen put Team India to shame by performing flop. Apart from Nitish Kumar Reddy, no batsman could play a good innings. He scored 42 runs in 47 balls. Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant scored 28-28 runs. KL Rahul scored 7 runs, Virat Kohli scored 11 runs, Ravichandran Ashwin scored 7 runs and Rohit Sharma was out after scoring 6 runs.
Due to such performance, the Indian team scored 175 runs in the second innings and set a target of 19 runs. Australian captain Pat Cummins managed to take five wickets. He took the wickets of KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma, Ravichandran Ashwin, Harshit Rana and Nitish Kumar Reddy. Mitchell Starc and Scott Boland took two and three wickets respectively. The Australian team scored 19 runs in 3.2 overs and won by 10 wickets.
Rohit Sharma’s mistake: There were many reasons behind Team India’s defeat at the hands of Australia, but the villain was captain Rohit Sharma. He took many such decisions in this match which went against the team. Meanwhile, he also flopped badly as a batsman. When the team expected a strong innings from him, he could not even touch the figure of ten runs. Rohit Sharma scored 3 runs in the first innings and 6 runs in the second innings.
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