IND vs AUS Live Cricket Score Streaming Online Today Match Updates: India favouries in New Delhi
Players of Indian Cricket team practice ahead of 2nd Test match between India-Australia, in New Delhi on Thursday. (EXPRESS PHOTO BY PRAVEEN KHANNA)
India will still start as overwhelming favourites for another three-day finish when they take on Australia in the second Test from Friday. The match will be one of Indian cricket’s understated warrior Cheteshwar Pujara’s 100th Test, a feat achieved after 13 years of sweat and toil. While Pujara would like to savour the momentous personal milestone with a 20th Test ton, one can’t but paper over the concerns around India’s top-order.
KL Rahul’s prolonged run of failures remains a worry but Save skipper Rohit Sharma, who was regal in attack and classical in defence during his hundred on a slow turner in Nagpur, the others failed to get going in the opener. Besides Rahul, the list of strugglers includes the peerless Virat Kohli and, to an extent, Pujara.
Kohli is leaving no stone unturned to up the ante while facing the spinners. Round two of Kohli versus Nathan Lyon and Todd Murphy could be equally enticing.
IND vs AUS 2nd TEST Playing XIs:
India: Rohit Sharma (captain), KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Ravindra Jadeja, Srikar Bharat (wicketkeeper), Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj
Australia: David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Travis Head, Peter Handscomb, Alex Carey (wicketkeeper), Pat Cummins (captain), Todd Murphy, Nathan Lyon, Matt Kuhnemann (Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in New Delhi; editing by Peter Rutherford)
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