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India vs Australia live score, AUS 89-3: Ravindra Jadeja replaces R Ashwin in the attack and his first over is a decent one. However, Travis Head has settled in nicely alongside Wade. India will want another wicket soon.
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India vs Australia Live Score, Boxing Day Test at Melbourne, Day 3: Jasprit Bumrah Removes Steve Smith, AUS Three Down
India vs Australia 2nd Test in Melbourne Live Scores Latest updates - AUS 89-3: Ravindra Jadeja replaces R Ashwin in the attack and his first over is a decent one. However, Travis Head has settled in nicely alongside Wade. India will want another wicket soon.
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- Updated: December 28, 2020, 10:45 AM IST
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2nd Test TEST, Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), Melbourne, 26 December, 2020
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10:30 (IST)
India vs Australia live score, AUS 81-3: Ouch. Bumrah comes up with an absolute snorter that hits Wade in the helmet. There's going to be a pause in play as the concussion protocols are followed.
10:18 (IST)
India vs Australia live score, AUS 71-3: OUT! Smith has to depart and it is a freaky dismissal. Bumrah bowls one around Smith's leg and appeals for LBW, not realising that the bail had been dislodged after the ball clips it. India have their breakthrough.
10:06 (IST)
India vs Australia live score, AUS 66-2: We are back underway now for the final session of Day 3. It really couldn't be more finely balanced; two more wickets and India are in the driver's seat. But Australia need only one good partnership to overhaul the lead.
09:42 (IST)
India vs Australia live score, AUS 65-2: Bumrah comes back into the attack for a short spell before tea but Wade manages to get a boundary off him with a superb straight drive. Ashwin bowls the final over before tea and the game remains in the balance.
09:19 (IST)
India vs Australia live score, AUS 51-2: Smith and Wade will need to string together a decent partnership here. Meanwhile, Sachin Tendulkar has something to say on DRS and umpire's call. Agree with the legend?
The reason players opt for a review is because they’re unhappy with the decision taken by the on-field umpire.
— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) December 28, 2020
The DRS system needs to be thoroughly looked into by the @ICC, especially for the ‘Umpires Call’.#AUSvIND
09:04 (IST)
India vs Australia live score, AUS 42-2: OUT! Ashwin with an absolute beauty to get rid of Labuschagne. The batsman doesn't read the straight one and plays for turn but only ends up edging one to Rahane at first slip. That's just what India needed.
08:54 (IST)
India vs Australia live score, AUS 34-1: Umpire's call denies India again! Siraj had Labuschagne trapped but umpire says not out. It looked a bit high but Rahane went for the review and it turns out the ball was just clipping the stumps. Lucky escape for Australia's No. 3.
08:48 (IST)
India vs Australia live score, AUS 33-1: India have not been able to capitalise on the early wicket of Burns. Both Labuschagne and Wade look well settled now. To make things worse, Umesh is still getting treatment and he looked in good rhythm.
08:32 (IST)
India vs Australia live score, AUS 22-1: Siraj completed Umesh's over but didn't come back to bowl thereafter. Bumrah continues to plug on and Ravichandran Ashwin has been brought into the attack as well but Labuschagne and Wade have stood firm thus far.
08:14 (IST)
India vs Australia live score, AUS 13-1: New man Marnus Labuschagne has looked solid thus far alongside Matthew Wade. But there's some bad news for India: Umesh Yadav pulls up after a delivery and has gone off the field for treatment.
07:53 (IST)
India vs Australia live score, AUS 4-1: OUT! Burns edges one to Pant and Umesh Yadav gets the breakthrough for India. Burns decides to review but replays show he had edged the ball and he's got to go.
07:51 (IST)
India vs Australia live score, AUS 1-0: So nearly a breakthrough! Bumrah bowls a yorker that catches Burns on the toe and appeals loudly but the umpire turns it down. India take the review but it's umpire's call and Burns survives.
07:35 (IST)
India vs Australia live score, AUS 0-0: Hello and welcome back to the second session of Day 3 of the 2nd Test match at Melbourne. Australia trail by 131 runs, which isn't as big a lead as India would have wanted but it is a sizeable one regardless. How will Australia get on in reply? We'll find out now.
06:55 (IST)
India vs Australia live score, IND 326: And all over here. India is all out for 326. The overall lead is 131. Once again the tail has disappointed, but still overall India will be happy.
06:51 (IST)
India vs Australia live score, IND 325-9: And now wickets falling like a pack of cards. Ashwin gives a simple catch to Nathan Lyon at point. India is nine down now with a lead of 130.
06:47 (IST)
India vs Australia live score, IND 325-8: Lyon continues here. And Umesh is showing a lot of maturity here and not only going for shots. India would be eyeing that 150-run lead. And here it is. Lyon has a wicket here. He is out caught at slips.
06:38 (IST)
India vs Australia live score, IND 321-7: Ashwin is trying something different here against Lyon. He is trying to distract the bowler by shuffling in the crease before the ball is bowled.
06:31 (IST)
India vs Australia live score, IND 316-7: India adding some crucial runs here. Umesh sweeps Lyon for a four. Lead has gone to 120 now here. And Umesh will face, mot likely a barrage of bouncers in next over.
06:22 (IST)
India vs Australia live score, IND 307-7: What would be the strategy for India now? The kind of batting form Ashwin is in, not much can be expected. So will Umesh and Ashwin go for their shots?
06:16 (IST)
India vs Australia live score, IND 306-7: What has Jadeja done here. He pulls Starc, but gives a catch straight to Cummins who was stationed there at mid-wicket. Nevertheless, he has played a brilliant innings here. Jadeja out for 57.
06:10 (IST)
India vs Australia live score, IND 306-6: Nathan Lyon hasn't given much away and continues to do so. After the drinks break he starts with a maiden over. The lead is 111 now.
06:09 (IST)
India vs Australia live score, IND 306-6: The pitch doesn't seem to have much venom on day three here. It is just about applying yourself in the middle, and that is what is needed from the Indians.
05:54 (IST)
India vs Australia live score, IND 298-6: And here is a change in bowling again and Starc gets his second spell of the day. They are just bowling it short to Jadeja. Ashwin needs to stick around with Jadeja.
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India vs Australia live score, IND 296-6: Meanwhile, Ravindra Jadeja has brought up a well-earned fifty. And the sword comes out here. He will have to continue here but and not let the guard down. India has 100-run lead now.
05:38 (IST)
India vs Australia live score, IND 294-6: Lyon continues here. India would need each and every player to fire here. What has happened here. India have lost Rahane here. He is run out for 112.
05:30 (IST)
India vs Australia live score, IND 293-5: Now Nathan Lyon comes into the attack. The pitch might offer good bounce and turn here. Indian batsmen will have to be wary here. One run comes from the over.
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India vs Australia live score, IND 292-5: For now the Indian batsmen are looking comfortable, but they can't let this partnership break. Not much batting is left after this pair. Another good over comes to an end.
05:17 (IST)
First four of the day comes from Jadeja's bat. India 289-5
2nd Test. 94.5: P Cummins to R Jadeja, 4 runs , 289/5 https://t.co/bIOW0qI7V2 #AUSvIND
— ICC Live Scores (@ICCLive) December 27, 2020
05:12 (IST)
India vs Australia live score, IND 284-5: Starc continues from the other end and Rahane pushes the ball through point for three runs. The ball was timed sweetly, but there wasn't much force behind the shot. And Australia are banging in a few short ones against Jadeja.
India vs Australia 2nd Test in Melbourne Live Scores Latest updates - AUS 89-3: Ravindra Jadeja replaces R Ashwin in the attack and his first over is a decent one. However, Travis Head has settled in nicely alongside Wade. India will want another wicket soon.
Day 2 report
It is not often that India dominates two consecutive days of a Test match in tough alien conditions in Australia. But that is exactly what has transpired in the first two days of the big Boxing Day Test at the MCG. After bowling out Australia for 195 in the first innings on Day 1, India ended Day 2 at 277 for 5, scoring 241 runs for the loss of just 4 wickets in the day's play. Skipper, Ajinkya Rahane's unbeaten 104 off 200 deliveries was the performance of the day for India and he was well supported by the likes of Hanuma Vihari, Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja.
India started the day on 36 for 1 with Shubman Gill and Cheteshwar Pujara at the crease. Gill played some more delightful strokes in the morning session and had raced to a classy and elegant 45 off just 65 deliveries (including 8 boundaries) before edging one to keeper, Tim Paine off the bowling of Pat Cummins. India received a double jolt when their Mr Dependable, Pujara nicked a brilliant delivery from Cummins for another catch to skipper Paine behind the stumps - it was a length delivery angled in before moving away inducing the edge from Pujara. Paine had taken a sensational one-handed catch. Cummins was in red-hot form, steaming in at pace he had picked two wickets in successive overs changing the match on its head.
Rahane found an able partner in Vihari and the pair resurrected the Indian innings with a patient and determined 52-run stand for the fourth wicket. Vihari was finally dismissed for 21 but he had done a good job under pressure for India keeping the Australian attack at bay facing 66 deliveries. More significantly, the Rahane-Vihari pair had not given a wicket to Australia for 21 odd overs.
Pant came in and showed intent - just what India needed at that juncture in the match. He got away a few boundaries and frustrated the proud Australian pace attack. He scored a quick 29 off just 40 deliveries and added 57 off just 87 balls for the fifth wicket with skipper, Rahane before falling prey to Starc. It was a very significant and timely contribution given the context of the match and the slow-scoring nature of the pitch.
Meanwhile, Rahane had occupied one end forging match-changing partnerships with the middle order. In Jadeja, he found an able partner and the pair took India past Australia. After a watchful first 35 runs in the partnership, the runs started to flow and the boundaries started coming regularly. Australia took the new ball after 80 overs and almost immediately got the breakthrough. Rahane was given a reprieve when he was dropped at second slip by Steven Smith off the bowling of Starc. The pair increased the tempo as India increased their lead over Australia.
Then the moment of reckoning came for Rahane as he registered his 12th Test hundred in the 88th over of the innings getting to the landmark with a fine cut to the point boundary off Cummins. It was a fantastic century by the stand-in-captain - one of his finest overseas especially given the context of the match and the series. Meanwhile, Jadeja was mixing caution and aggression brilliantly at the other end. He was putting away the bad balls but leaving everything else resisting numerous temptations outside the off stump. The left-hander has been in excellent form with the bat since 2018 across formats. The pair soon stitched together a potentially match-defining partnership of 100 in just 179 deliveries with the Australian attack with no answers on how to dislodge the stand. Rahane, on 104, was let-off for a second time in the day when Travis Head put down a relatively simple chance diving from gully to a snorter of a short ball from Starc.
India ended Day 2, a day they dominated, on 277 for 5 with Rahane unbeaten on 104 and Jadeja undefeated on 40. The lead had stretched to 82. India had scored 88 runs in 28 overs without losing a wicket in the final session. Australia were poor in the field and dropped a number of easy catches which may come to haunt them later in the match. As for India, if the Rahane-Jadeja pair along with the tail can take the lead past 150, it would put India in the driver's seat on Day 3.
A fascinating day awaits tomorrow.
Team Rankings
| Rank | Team | Points | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | England | 6877 | 275 |
| 2 | Australia | 6800 | 272 |
| 3 | India | 10186 | 268 |
| 4 | Pakistan | 7516 | 259 |
| 5 | South Africa | 5047 | 252 |
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