Team India's crushing defeat in Adelaide!
australia has won the second Test match played in adelaide by 10 wickets. australia got a target of just 19 runs in the fourth innings, which the team has achieved without losing a wicket. With this match win, the Kangaroo team has come to a one-one draw in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024. Earlier, india had registered a huge victory by 295 runs in the Perth Test. This is Australia's 8th consecutive win in pink-ball Test matches in Adelaide.
On the third day of the match, the second innings of the indian team was reduced to just 175 runs. Due to this, australia got a target of only 19 runs in the fourth innings. rishabh pant, who has become the savior for the indian team many times in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, looked completely 'out of touch'. Nitish reddy certainly looked full of enthusiasm, who was the highest run scorer for Team india in both the innings. He scored 41 and 41 runs respectively in both the innings.
Travis Head became a problem for India
Travis Head has been scoring a lot of runs against india from time to time. It was Travis Head who took india away from victory in the adelaide Test. He played a century of 140 runs at a time when other batsmen were struggling to score every run. Thanks to Head's century and Marnus Labuschagne's 64-run innings, australia was able to get a lead of 157 runs in the first innings. Team india again collapsed under pressure and could score only 175 runs in the second innings.
Stark-Cummins' havoc
The match started with Mitchell Starc getting yashasvi jaiswal a golden duck. From there the sequence of wickets falling did not end. The situation was such that India's first innings was all out for just 180 runs. In response, australia scored 337 runs, which gave them a lead of 157 runs. Starc took 6 wickets in the first innings and took 8 wickets in the entire match. In the second innings, Cummins took over the responsibility, who could take only 2 wickets in the first innings but took 5 wickets in the second innings.