History against India as test series moves to Sydney
Can India overcome their poor record in the second match of back-to-back tests with a short turnaround to force a draw and retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy?
IMAGE: Yashasvi Jaiswal has a chat with the umpires after being dismissed (Associated Press).
The 2024/25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy between India and Australia has been a seesawing affair, as indicated by the final day of the Boxing Day Test earlier this week.
There was much discussion as to whether the Aussies had left themselves enough time to bowl the Indians out after Scott Boland and Nathan Lyon batted until the end of day four and then came out to bat again at the start of day five.
While it’s not exactly clear what captain Pat Cummins and the rest of the coaching staff were thinking, I doubt whether they would have been overly pleased by Australia’s number 10 and 11 lasting an additional 10 deliveries – for only six runs – before Lyon was bowled by Jasprit Bumrah.
At the change of innings India required 340 to win and Australia needed to take 10 wickets in the 92 overs of play that remained. Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rohit Sharma saw off the first 16 overs…