On Day 2 of the second Test match between Australia and India at the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide, Virat Kohli was revved up. India really needed a wicket after Travis Head and Marnus Labuschagne had already put up 65 runs for the fourth wicket. Labuschagne’s dismissal provided some reprieve, and India briefly returned to the game.
Kohli jumped out of the group and shushed the fans with a finger on his lips as soon as Yashasvi Jaiswal got the catch off Nitish Kumar’s bowling. The Australian audience was reminded of the typical Kohli on the pitch as Marnus went off the pitch with 64 runs. However, Head went on to smash 140 off 141 balls to score a century.
Here’s the video of Virat Kohli’s gesture:
Virat Kohli after Labuschagne dismissal
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The ball seems to be coming out nicely: Mitchell Starc
India was bowled out for just 180 runs in the first innings of the Pink Ball Test, giving them a terrible start. Mitchell Starc, who dismissed Yashasvi Jaiswal on the opening ball of the innings, was the mastermind behind their collapse. In the end, he took six wickets in the opening innings. Australia has a 157-run advantage over India after scoring 337 runs in their opening innings.
“I’m not sure. I am unable to tell. They outperformed us in Perth, but we didn’t play all that poorly. It feels like the ball has been coming out nicely. [on whether he imagined swinging the opening ball to Jaiswal] Honestly, not that much. It was a good beginning; nothing really changes from game to game. [about the weather] After the first inning, Starc remarked, “It definitely did not help the engine, got a bit cramped at the end.”
“Day 1 you expect with a little bit of grass to do a bit, maybe with the forecast we have it dries out a bit later, but aside from the first hour when we were a bit wide we were good,” he continued. “It [the pink ball] goes through weird patches, won’t do much and then does go…”
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