Gotta say Day 2’s play was all about the best of India both bat and ball with both of their opening batters still not out after a great long afternoon’s worth of fun in the middle. Okay, that opening session from the AM may showed a bit of strength by the Aussies to hold on at the tail end thanks to Mitchell Starc who was their top scorer of 26 over at 9.
But again, there’s not much time they could do to turn things around when India would have already have wrapped their 1st innings haul right before the lunch break for 104 after just 50 overs.
From there, it was up to the Indian batters to steer well clear ahead of the Aussies and looks they are with great intent when their opening partnership looks as solid as a rock.
Hats off to youngster Yashasvi Jaiswal (left-handed) who has been amazing with his shot selection every time he knows to pick these right areas – he’s currently on 90 with KL Rahul also excellent at the other supporting end with his own 50 & he’s on 62.
India are currently on 0-172 with a 218 run lead going into Day 3 tomorrow as would be great if Jaiswal and Rahul score both of their own 100s & they wouldn’t worry a single bit to bring their bowlers to guide them home sometime between the next 3rd session tomorrow & Day 4 Monday.
Meanwhile, it’s been a hugely underwhelming and heavy-hitting day for the Aussies other than showing a bit of strength by their tail enders.
There was hope they can finish the Indian 2nd innings total real fast like they did earlier during Day 1 yesterday but it’s a shame these missed catches cost them so dearly and they finished off Day 2 with no wickets on hand.
They better come back real fast to quickly dismantle the whole lot first thing tomorrow morning & do whatever it takes to meet that run target. But it’s up to the bowlers to restrict as low as possible first, then we may as well see a stunning comeback if they do so as they possibly can on what Test Cricket is all about to kickstart this five-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy Series.
The Aussies better have this done by using it or else forget about this to lose it & move on with this 2nd Day/Night Adelaide Test.
