Thursday 18 December 2014

Highlights of 2nd day of 2nd Test at the Gabba, in Brisbane

Resuming at the overnight score of 311 for four, India lost their last six wickets for just 97 runs and were dismissed for 408 in 109.4 overs, debutant Josh Hazlewood being the wrecker-in-chief with figures of 5 for 68.
Umesh Yadav scalped three wickets on his comeback & ashwin took 1 wicket before leave the second Test against Australia at the end of Day 2 at the Gabba, in Brisbane, on Thursday.
India got all out in 110 overs with 408 runs on board in return Australia playing on 221/4 in 50 overs at end of 2nd day of 2nd test.
Shaun Marsh (32 off 70 balls) posted his highest score against India in seven innings. He has just 49 runs in five Tests, at an average of 7.00 versus India.
Nathan Lyon is the first bowler to complete 15 wickets (ave.26.06) in the present rubber.
Rohit Sharma (32 off 55 balls) registered his second best score versus Australia in Tests, next only to the 43 at Brisbane in the first Test of the ongoing series.

Josh Hazlewood became the third Australian bowler to bag five wickets in an innings on Test debut versus India. The other bowlers are Brett Lee -- 5/47 at Melbourne in 1999-00 and Jason Krejza -- 8 for 215 at Nagpur in 2008-09. Hazlewood had figures of 5 for 68 in the ongoing match at Brisbane.
No other wicketkeeper has effected six dismissals in an innings in India-Australia Tests. He is the second wicketkeeper to effect six dismissals at the Gabba, Brisbane, the first being Rodney Marsh against England in 1982-83.
Haddin equalled an Australian record of taking six catches in a Test innings as a wicketkeeper and joined Wally Grout, Rod Marsh and Ian Healy.
 Shane Watson has not scored a half-century in 10 innings vs India in Tests.
 Rogers's splendid 55 off 79 balls is his first fifty against India -- his sixth in Test cricket.
 He averages 20.80 in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy -- his tally being 104 in five innings.
 Steven Smith has posted four consecutive innings of fifty-plus for the first time -- the sequence being 97 vs Pakistan at Abu Dhabi and 162 & 52 at Adelaide and 65 at Brisbane -- all three unbeaten innings vs India. Smith's 10th half-century in Tests is his third vs India.

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