India vs Australia 2nd Test, Stuart Clark on Shubman Gill Wicket: Former Australian spinner Stuart Clark believes that Indian batsman Shubman Gill’s slight distraction was the reason for his dismissal. He was dismissed by Scott Boland on the first day of the day-night test at Adelaide Oval on Friday. Shubman could not play in the Perth Test due to injury. While making a comeback, he hit five brilliant fours. He showed no shortcomings in his batting. Earlier, he had scored a half-century in the pink-ball practice match at Manika Oval. However, on the first ball of the 22nd over, Shubman missed Boland’s attempt to flick a half-volley and was trapped LBW for 31 runs. He played 51 balls, but was able to play only 2 of the last 29 balls before getting out. This became the reason for his outing.
Stuart Clark said on ABC radio, “I didn’t understand what he was doing. The ball hit the lowest part of his pad. It was a half-volley, which he missed. Why did he take a review, also Didn’t understand. Maybe he thought he was out of line. But I think he was trying to slow down the game.” Clarke further said, “Shubman let himself wander. He went to talk to Rishabh Pant in the middle of the over, and it showed that he was trying to slow down the game. Because of this he got distracted.” Clarke also said, “We saw everything in the first session. This Test is going to progress at a very fast pace. It will be difficult to bat on this pitch and weather conditions.”
Indian innings was reduced to 180 runs due to 6 wickets of Starc.
Australia’s fast bowler Mitchell Starc took five or more wickets in the innings for the first time with the pink ball, but with the help of Nitish Kumar Reddy’s flamboyant innings, India was successful in scoring 180 runs in the first innings on the first day of the second day-night cricket test. . After taking four wickets for 82 runs in the first session, Australia ended the visiting team’s innings by taking six wickets for 98 runs in the second session, after which dinner break was taken. Starc, who bowled career-best (six wickets for 48 runs), captain Pat Cummins (two wickets for 41 runs) and Scott Boland (two wickets for 54 runs) troubled the Indian batsmen more with the pink ball in the second session.
In his second over of the second session, Boland LBW the incoming ball to Indian captain Rohit Sharma (three runs in 23 balls), who was playing in the middle order after six years. Rishabh Pant (21 runs in 35 balls) once again showed aggressive attitude but gave an easy catch to Marnus Labuschagne on Cummins’ bouncer, due to which India’s score became 109 runs for six wickets. Reddy (42 runs in 54 balls, three sixes, three fours), who impressed in the debut Test in Perth, added 32 runs for the seventh wicket with Ravichandran Ashwin (22 runs in 22 balls). Starc trapped Ashwin LBW on an inward swinging ball and then bowled Harshit Rana (0) in the same over.
Seeing the wicket falling at the other end, Reddy showed aggressive attitude. He hit a six on Starc over extra cover and a reverse scoop on Boland over the slips, taking the team’s score beyond 150 runs. Four balls later, Reddy pulled Boland’s ball and hit another six. Cummins gave the ninth blow to India by getting Indian captain Jasprit Bumrah (0) caught by Usman Khawaja, while after this Reddy also got Starc’s ball caught in the air and caught by Travis Head, which ended the Indian innings.
Also read: IND vs AUS Pink Ball Test: Mitchell Starc’s historic feat in Test cricket, the first bowler to do so
