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WTC Final: India’s return on the second day, stopped Australia for 469 runs, Mohammad Siraj’s 4 wickets
In the final match of the World Test Championship, Australia scored a huge score of 469 runs in the first innings. Brilliant batting from Australia. Steve Smith and Travis Head have put together a formidable partnership in front of India. However, the second day went well for India. On the second day, the Indian team managed to get seven wickets. When the second day’s play started, Steve Smith scored his century for Australia. After the dismissals of Steve Smith and Travis Head, the Indian bowlers came back brilliantly in this match and dismissed the rest of the Australian batsmen cheaply.
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While Steve Smith played a tremendous innings of 121 runs, Travis Head scored 163 runs. Apart from these two, Alex Carey also played an innings of 48 runs. On the other hand, talking about Indian bowlers, Mohammed Shami has achieved two successes while Mohammed Siraj has got 4 wickets. Give it to Shardul Thakur, while Ravindra Jadeja has got a success. India did not use the bouncer much in the beginning on the first day but Siraj and Shami used the short pitched balls well in the first session on the second day. Although Smith played smoothly against the rising balls, Head looked uncomfortable. In the sixth over of the day, in an attempt to play Siraj’s short ball towards the lead side, head wicketkeeper Shrikar returned to the pavilion by catching Bharat. He hit 25 fours and a six in his innings.
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Cameron Green also could not last long and in an attempt to drive Shami’s ball, he was caught by Shubman Gill at second slip. Smith also returned to the pavilion after playing the ball outside the off side of Shardul Thakur on the wickets. This was Shardul’s first ball of the day. Smith hit 19 fours. Substitute Akshar Patel ran in from mid-off to run out Mitchell Starc with a sharp shot at the stumps to give India their fourth breakthrough of the day. The pitch has become easier for batting under the bright sun but the fast bowlers are still getting enough help.
