Today is the second day of the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy being played between India and Australia. The second day's play will begin at 7:50 am at Optus Stadium in Perth. At present, India is in a strong position in the competition. The team is ahead of Australia by 83 runs.
On the first day on Friday, India won the toss and elected to bat. No batter could score a fifty and the team was all out for 150 runs. Josh Hazlewood took 4 wickets.
India made a brilliant comeback with bowling and Australia lost 7 wickets for 59 runs. By the end of the day's play the team's score was 67, with Alex Carey scoring 19 and Mitchell Starc returning not out with 6. Jasprit Bumrah took 4 wickets and Mohammad Siraj 2 wickets from India.
Nitish Reddy scored 41 runs The Indian team had a bad start. The team lost 6 wickets after scoring 73 runs. Yashaswi Jaiswal and Devdutt Padikal could not open the account. Virat Kohli was dismissed for 5 runs, Dhruv Jurrell for 11 runs and Washington Sundar for 4 runs.
Debutant Nitish Reddy scored 41 runs (59 balls) and wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant scored 37 runs from 78 balls. Both shared a partnership of 48 runs for the seventh wicket. While KL Rahul contributed 26 runs in 74 balls. Josh Hazlewood took 4 wickets from Australia. Pat Cummins, Mitchell Marsh and Mitchell Starc got 2 wickets each.
Bumrah took 4 wickets Travis Head scored 11, Nathan McSweeney 10, Usman Khawaja 8, Mitchell Marsh 6, Pat Cummins 3 and Marnus Labusche scored 2 runs in Australia's first innings on the first day. Steve Smith could not even open an account. Jasprit Bumrah has taken 4 wickets and Mohammad Siraj 2 wickets so far for India. Harshit Rana got 1 wicket.
There is no chance of rain There is absolutely no chance of rain on the second day of the Perth match. Today the temperature here will be 17 to 29 degrees. It will be sunny throughout the day, with occasional cloud cover.
Both teams playing-11 India: Jasprit Bumrah (captain), Yashaswi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Devdutt Padikal, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper), Dhruv Jurrell, Washington Sundar, Nitish Reddy, Harshit Rana and Mohammad Siraj.
Australia: Pat Cummins (captain), Nathan McSweeney, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey (wicketkeeper), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon and Josh Hazlewood.
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