World Test Championship Final: Smith's 31st century, Team India falters in front of Australia's big score Team India lost 5 wickets for 151 runs against Australia's 469

 

London. Australia tightened their grip on the final of the World Test Championship on the second day on Thursday. After scoring 469 runs in the first innings, he sent half of India's team to the pavilion for a total of 151 runs. India is still 318 runs behind Australia. The foundation stone laid on the first day saw Australia reach a score of 469. India dropped 7 wickets for Australia's 142 runs on the second day. 327 runs on the first day gave Australia strength.

Rohit-Gil could not give a good start: Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill looked in rhythm in the beginning. Rohit hit the second ball of Stark's first over for a four. Gill hits Cummins at beautiful pull for a four. But on the last ball of the sixth over, Cummins got Rohit (15) lbw. Gill missed reading Boland's in-cutter in the next over. He released the ball which went straight into the wicket. After tea, Pujara (14) was bowled like Gill in leaving Green's ball. The big blow came in the form of Virat (14). He caught Smith in the slips on an uneven bounce ball from Stark. Ajinkya Rahane and Ravindra Jadeja shared a 71-run partnership for the fifth wicket, but Jadeja (48) was dismissed by Lyon. At the end of the day's play, Rahane was unbeaten on 29 and Bharat was on 5 runs.

Smith-Head shared a 285-run partnership

Earlier, the Indian bowlers, who suffered the brunt of uncontrolled and unplanned bowling on the first day of the game, made the bouncing small balls a weapon on Thursday morning. Especially on these balls of Siraj, both Smith and Travis Head had trouble, but Steve Smith, who scored 95 runs on the first day, soon completed his 31st century. This was Smith's seventh century in England and ninth against India.

* Head too soon touched his 150. This was his fourth score of 150 in Test cricket. He has scored six hundreds, but after that a web of short balls has put India in the lead.

■ Head tried to play Siraj's short ball away from the wicket. The ball touched the bat and got into the gloves of Bharat. Head scored 163 runs in 174 balls at a strike rate of 93.67. Head and Smith batted together for 67 overs and shared a 285-run partnership for the fourth wicket.

Smith completed 2000 Test runs against India

• Mohammed Shami got Cameron Green (6) caught by Gill in the slip. Big success Shardul Thakur got Smith bowled. smith simple ball with his bat

pull to the wicket

Went. Smith took 268 balls

innings of 121 runs in

• played. He hit 19 fours. During this, he also completed his 2000 runs in Test cricket against India. Australia lost 4 wickets in 41 runs.

score board

Australia first innings: 469 runs players

run ball

4/6

Warner's Bharat Bo Thakur Khawaja's Bharat Bo Siraj

43

60

8/0

00

10

0/0

Labushane b Mohammed Shami 26 Smith b Shardul Thakur

3/0

121

268

19/0

Head's Bharat Bow Siraj Green's Mill Bow Shami

163

174

25/1

06

07

1/0

carry pagbadha bo jadeja

48 69 7/1

Mitchell Starc runout

05

20

0/0

Rahane Bo Siraj of Cummins

09

34

0/0

Nathan Lyon Bo Siraj

09 25 1/0

Scott Boland not out

01

07

0/0

Extras: 38, Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-71, 3-76, 4-

361, 5-376, 6-387, 7-402, 8-453, 9-468, 10-469.

Bowling: Mohammed Shami 29-4-122-2, Mohammed Siraj 28.3-4-108-4; Umesh Yadav 23-5-77-0, Shardul Thakur 23-4-83-2, Ravindra Jadeja 18-2-56-1.

India: 1st innings: 151 for 5

15

26

2/0

Rohit Pagbadha Bo Cummins

Shubman Gill Bo Boland

13

15

2/0

14

25

2/0

14

Cheteshwar Pujara Bow Green Virat's Smith Bow Stark

Ajinkya Rahane not out

Jadeja's Smith Bo Lyon

31

2/0

29

71

4/0

48

51

7/1

Shrikar Bharat not out

05

14

0/0

Overs: 13, Fall: 1-30, 2-30, 3-50, 4-71, 5-142. Bowling: Starc 9-0-52-1, Cummins 9-2-36-1, Boland 11-4-29-1, Green 7-1-22-1, Lyon 2-0-4-1.