The second test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy will be played in Adelaide from today. India is leading 1-0 in the series. The team defeated Australia by 295 runs in the Perth Test. So far 13 matches have been played between the two teams in Adelaide, India has won 2 here.
Like 2020-21, this time also the day-night test will be played in Adelaide. To practice for the Pink Ball Test, India played a two-day warm-up game with Australia PM-11. Which India won by 6 wickets. Indian captain Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill will return from tomorrow's match. Both of them batted in the practice match.
match details
date- 6th December
Place- Adelaide Oval, Adelaide
Time- Toss- 9:00 AM, Match Start- 9:30 AM
Rohit Sharma will play in the middle order
Captain Rohit Sharma will return from the second match, he confirmed in the press conference that he will field in the middle order. Yashasvi Jaiswal and KL Rahul made a double century partnership in the second inning of the Perth Test. Both will open in the second test also. Only Shubman Gill will land at number-3. After Virat, Rohit can bat in the middle order. Devdutt Padikkal and Dhruv Jurel will be out.
Rohit came to bat in the middle order in the practice match against PM-11.
Australia ahead in overall record
Yashasvi-Virat in form
Virat Kohli's return to form in the first Test was the biggest positive thing for India. Virat Kohli and Yashasvi Jaiswal scored centuries in the second innings. Jaiswal scored 161 runs and Kohli scored 100 not out. Jasprit Bumrah, who was captaining India, took 8 wickets in this match. He was the player of the match.
Australia's top batsman in the first test
Travis Head scored a brilliant 89 runs for Australia in the second innings of the Perth Test. He was caught out by Bumrah. In the bowling department, Josh Hazlewood took maximum 5 wickets for the team.
Australia has not lost a single day-night test
Australia has played 12 day-night tests since 2015. Till last year, it had won 11 consecutive matches, but in January this year, the team was defeated by West Indies by 8 runs. West Indies' Shamar Joseph led his team to a historic victory in Brisbane by taking 7 wickets in the second innings.
India has also lost only one day-night Test, that too in 2020 against Australia at Adelaide. Apart from this the team has won 3 day-night tests. India has defeated Bangladesh, England and Sri Lanka. Virat Kohli is the only Indian batsman to have a century in the day-night test. He scored a century against Bangladesh in 2019.
India was all out for 36 runs in the last day-night test.
Last time, Australia won the day-night test between Australia and India by 8 wickets. In this match, the Indian team had scored 244 runs in the first innings. After this Australia was all out at 191. Due to which India got a lead of 53 runs. However, India's second innings was reduced to 36 runs and Australia achieved the target of 90 runs by losing 2 wickets.
Virat Kohli was out on 4 runs in the second inning of this match.
Weather and pitch report
Regarding Adelaide's pitch in the second test, curator Damien Hough says that he is trying to balance the wicket. There will be 6 mm grass on the pitch and here the ball will swing and seam. Spinners may also get a turn on the third and fourth days of the match. There is an 88 percent chance of rain on the first day of the match. In day-night tests, swing is often seen more during the third session.
roll toss
The team winning the toss in Adelaide can bat first. So far 82 matches have been played here, in which the team batting first has won 35 matches. The team bowling first has won 28 matches.
Possible playing XI
India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant (wk), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar/Ravichandran Ashwin, Harshit Rana, Jasprit Bumrah (vice-captain) and Mohammed Siraj.
Australia: Pat Cummins (captain), Nathan McSweeney, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey (wk), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon and Scott Boland.
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