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88th over: Australia 320-6 (Smith 70, Cummins 15) Akash Deep will bowl the second over, which will probably give Bumrah a chance to bowl from his preferred end. Deep took the stumps with 1-59 from his 19 wickets and today he opened with the maiden.
87th over: Australia 320-6 (Smith 70, Cummins 15) Great start for Australia. Smith taps an easy single to quell the panic and Siraj strays to the second, pounced upon by Cummins with a flash blade that takes it to the rope. Now Cummins takes a legside ball off his hip and a misfield – the bane of India’s fielding yesterday – allows three runs. Eight in the first half over! A single from Smith makes nine out of six
Steve Smith is at the crease 123 runs short of the magical milestone of 10,000 Test runs. Undoubtedly the first two to achieve this feat are the men whose names adorn the trophy won in this series: the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Smith has his captain Pat Cummins at the other end and Mohammed Siraj is practicing with the ball in his hand. Here we go, friends…
Thankfully for Victorians battling the threat of bushfires, it’s a cool day in Melbourne today – currently 18°C with temperatures rising to 22°C. We have cloudy skies at the MCG and Ricky Ponting, keeping an eye on the pitch, has predicted that it will be a suitable day for batting.
Will Steve Smith and Pat Cummins clash this morning? Or will India’s batsmen – barring Shubman Gill, who has been controversially dropped in favor of playing another spinner in Washington Sundar – get the best of it on day two?
The players are practicing on the field and the action will start soon.
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Constance’s blitzkrieg got an extraordinary response from his cricket hero Virat Kohli, who crossed three lanes of traffic to lend a shoulder to the youngster.
Although Kohli tried to claim it as Kishore’s mistake and Usman Khawaja played peacemaker, Kohli was deducted 20% of his match fee – a small sum to pay for an epic display of irritability. price. Constas himself dismissed the incident as “just cricket”…
Check out the Constus Highlights package with this as your soundtrack…
Here’s how the local media saw Konstas Kaus at the MCG…
For those who came late, here’s how Geoff Lemon pulled off the first day’s lightning…
Preface
Angus Fontaine
Hello cricket fans! Welcome to day two of the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne.
it was the first day VeryThe blast furnace heat in Victoria brought wildfires across the state and batting conditions at the MCG worsened as the 19-year-old Sydney opener made his Test debut on cricket’s biggest stage, carving his name into history. It was registered and Australia got the lead. On the first day of this important fourth Test.
Sam Constas, a plucky teenager with only a few first-class games under his belt, lit up the MCG with a display of batting pyrotechnics, leading even the great Sunil Gavaskar to declare: “We are the future of Test cricket. Are.”
As Jack Snape captured yesterday, it was a triumph of the unconventional. Ramp shots, reverse scoop, paddle slap, deadly square cut, slog sweep. After playing and missing five of his first six balls in Test cricket, Constas went mad as only a callow young man can. This triggered a display of anger from King himself, as Virat Kohli started an argument in midpitch after deliberately shouldering the young Australian.
Slamming Sam’s innings lasted barely an hour and 65 balls, but he scored 60, one of the most impressive runs ever seen by a debutant batsman. Even the great Jasprit Bumrah, India’s weapon of mass destruction in this series, was left out of the attack as Konstas troubled the Indian bowlers and gave Australia a crucial early lead.
Bumrah, who did not hit a single six in 25 Test matches in four years, was taken to the grandstand. twice within an hour By Constas. And yet, later in the day, Bumrah came back to demolish Australia’s middle order, taking three key wickets and bringing India back into the contest with Australia’s score at 311 for 6.
The second day should be another bloody one. The game will start at 10.30 am, so get them down and get them up as play continues in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.