Australia Beat India by 10 Wickets in Pink-Ball Test: Australia defeated India by 10 wickets in the second test. After the defeat in the first test, Australia made a tremendous comeback and showed amazing performance in the second test and defeated India by 10 wickets. India had given a target of 19 runs to Australia, Australia achieved the target in the fourth over itself.

AUS vs IND 2nd Test Match Playing-11s

Australia: Usman Khawaja, Nathan McSweeney, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey(w), Pat Cummins(c), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Scott Boland.

India: Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant(w), Rohit Sharma(c), Nitish Reddy, Ravichandran Ashwin, Harshit Rana, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj.

In this Pink-Ball Test India won the toss and batted first and scored 180 runs. Nitish Reddy also scored 42 runs in the first innings for India. KL Rahul scored 37 and Shubman Gill scored 31 runs. On the other hand, Mitchell Starc bowled brilliantly for Australia and was successful in taking 6 wickets. After this, when the Australian team came out to bat, the batsmen batted cautiously. Travis Head especially did wonders and was successful in scoring 140 runs. On the basis of Travis Head's century, Australia scored 337 runs in the first innings.

Australia had taken a lead of 157 runs on the basis of the first innings. Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammad Siraj did wonders by taking 4-4 ​​wickets from India's side. Nitish Reddy and Ashwin were successful in taking one wicket each. After Australia's innings, when the Indian team came to bat in the second innings, once again the batsmen flopped and the entire team was out for 175 runs. This time too, Reddy scored 42 runs and succeeded in taking India's innings beyond 150. Reddy was the only batsman from India who faced more than 40 balls. Reddy scored 42 runs in 47 balls in which he succeeded in hitting 6 fours and a six.

For win the match Australia got a target of 19 runs, which the host team achieved in 3.2 overs and leveled the five-match Test series 1-1.

Player of the Match: Travis Head (AUS) 140.

"Nice to get some runs again. Moved well last week, I felt like I am in good form. Good dressing to be in. Nothing's ever guaranteed, nice momentum and now we have to move on with it. I felt like there was a good opportunity against the second new ball. Nice that it came off. (Century celebration) Did it for Miller as well, nice to have them here and it's been a nice week."- Said Head.

The third Test match of Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 will be played at Brisbane from December 14.