Australia v India: third Test, day two – live! | Sport

sixtieth over: Australia 178-2 (Labuschagne 70, Smith 40) Siraj to Marnus now, who drives down via mid-on and will get via for 3 runs. Smith continues to be transferring throughout his stumps and unable to beat a robust leg-side area, the sq. leg diving throughout to cease the ball.

59th over: Australia 175-2 (Labuschagne 67, Smith 40) A testing over from Bumrah to Smith. Will get one to leap off the floor, hitting the splice of Smith’s bat and startling him, the batsman flinching again from the bounce. Then one other that decks in and hits pad, however too excessive. Bumrah offers a cursory enchantment, as if to only report within the minutes of the assembly that he did certainly beat the bat.

58th over: Australia 175-2 (Labuschagne 67, Smith 40) Siraj to Smith, who could be very watchful this over, blocking him out from the crease with the ball on a size. When Siraj goes brief this time, Smith does make contact with the pull, taking two runs. Follows with a single to maintain strike.

57th over: Australia 172-2 (Labuschagne 67, Smith 37) Bumrah from the opposite finish. Begins the day with a half-volley and Smith drives it via the covers for 4. Able to pounce as quickly because the error was there, even when it was on the earliest alternative. To compound Bumrah’s annoyance, Smith pushes a run to cowl subsequent ball. However Bumrah responds to Labuschagne, delivering an absolute magnificence with the outdated ball: angling in, seaming away regardless of the damage on the ball, beating the sting.

56th over: Australia 168-2 (Labuschagne 67, Smith 33) What a begin. Mohammed Siraj begins the day, the quick bowler in his second Take a look at, and he begins in at Smith’s physique. Working that angle in. After a number of balls Siraj bombs within the bouncer, and it takes off! Smith takes it on. However doesn’t make contact in any respect. It beats him, zipping via previous his bat and previous his head. A wake-up ball. Then Siraj goes in on the ribs and it bounces excessive once more! An actual spike of bounce, and Smith fends it from beneath his armpit away via leg slip. India have a leg gully, squarer, quite than that finer place, and so Smith will get away with it and will get a run. Think about if he’d been caught across the nook once more…

If you need some extra element about Day 1, right here’s me and OBO colleague Adam Collins taking a wander across the Botanic Gardens in Melbourne. (We will’t go to Sydney as a result of then we received’t be allowed out once more. State border restrictions and all that.)

Right here’s the transient Reuters report on Day 1, if you happen to’re trying to catch up.

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Good morning from the japanese coast of a southern nation. It’s day two, how about that. We didn’t get a full day one for the Sydney Take a look at, however we did get 55 overs in after a protracted rain delay. Which signifies that play will begin half an hour early at the moment and day by day without end any more to make up a little bit of that point.

For Australia, at the moment is Steve Smith day. He got here out yesterday and appeared way more himself. Middled a number of, hit some boundaries, bought to 31 not out in a single day. He’ll be batting with Marnus Labuschagne on 67. The wickets to fall yesterday have been the openers, Warner for five and Pucovski on debut for 62, in an innings that was spectacular at occasions whereas additionally containing a very good slab of luck.

Alright, we could? It’s 166 for two, and India want incisions.