India vs Australia, 2nd Test Match Day 3 Live Score: India Staring At Pink-Ball Humiliation As Australia Run Riot

Australia vs India, 2nd Test Day 3 Live: India On Brink Of Humiliation

Close to an innings defeat in the pink-ball Test, India only have Nitish Kumar Reddy standing in the way of another embarrassing defeat in Adelaide. With Harshit Rana in company, Reddy has his task cut out. How long can India hold their remaining two wickets?

IND vs AUS 2nd Test Day 3, Live: OUT

OUT!!! Pat Cummins takes his third wicket of the innings as Australia breathe fire. This time, all-rounder Ravichandran Ashwin becomes his victim and departs for 7. A short delivery from Cummins as Ashwin stays inside the crease and tries to hook it away. However, the ball misses the bat and hits the glove as wicketkeeper Alex Carey quickly jumps towards his left and grabs a brilliant catch. Seventh wicket gone for India as they look completely clueless. 

IND 148/7 (29.4 overs)

IND vs AUS 2nd Test Day 3, Live: Onus lies on Reddy-Ashwin

After the sudden dismissal of Rishabh Pant, India badly rely on Nitish Kumar Reddy and Ravichandran Ashwin for a stable partnership. The duo need to be cautious against Australia’s fiery pace attack and remain intact, in order to propel India to a good total. 

IND 138/6 (27 overs)

IND vs AUS 2nd Test Day 3, Live: OUT

OUT!!!! OHHH!!! Mitchell Starc finally gets better of Rishabh Pant and removes him for 28. It’s a good length delivery from Starc as Pant pushes at it and gets a healthy outside edge. The ball goes towards first slip but Steve Smith moves to his right from second slip and grabs it completely. Sixth wicket gone for India as Starc delivers a wicket-maiden first over. 

IND 128/6 (25 overs)

IND vs AUS 2nd Test Day 3, Live: Pant- the fearless

Rishabh Pant starts showing his fearless approach from the very beginning as he tries to go for a big hit against Mitchell Starc. On the second delivery, Pant steps out to hammer a big shot but the ball misses the bat and goes straight to wicketkeeper Alex Carey. Australians appeal for a caught behind and take DRS but it shows no bat involved and Pant survives. A very bold move from Pant. 

IND 128/5 (24.2 overs)

IND vs AUS 2nd Test Day 3, Live: We are underway

Play on Day 3 of the ongoing second Test between India and Australia begins. For India, Rishabh Pant (28*) and Nitish Kumar Reddy (15*) will be resuming the proceedings from 128/5 as the visitors currently trail by 29 runs. The duo need to take their partnership as deep as they can, in order to help India post a good total. On the other hand, Mitchell Starc will be bowling the first over of the day for Australia. 

IND vs AUS 2nd Test Day 3, Live: Pitch Report

“It has hardened up, it’s also got a beautiful layer of grass that you can see. Those scarified marks are marks that actually completely line up at the stumps. On the middle-stump, these cracks are starting to open up right on the middle. They are going to be challenging. Pat Cummins can put a ball on a handkerchief, Scott Boland will be doing the same thing – buzzing around off-stump hoping for a little bit of a deviation. This looks like a really good batting surface.”

IND vs AUS 2nd Test Day 3, Live: Siraj on Travis Head

In an interaction with former India spinner Harbhajan Singh, Siraj said, “I enjoyed bowling a lot here. They were batting really well and when they hit the good balls for boundaries, you can’t help. Whatever you saw on TV, I didn’t say anything in disrespect. It was just part of my celebration (Talking about the celebration after Head’s wicket). Whatever he said in Press conference, it wasn’t true. He never said “well bowled”. We respect each other and cricket is a gentleman’s game. I didn’t feel right to me (talking about the stuff that Head spoke about Siraj’s celebration in PC). We know how to make a comeback, we are staying positive always and try our best to rise to the occasion.”

IND vs AUS 2nd Test Day 3, Live: Travis Head- India’s biggest nemesis

Travis Head continued to be a thorn in India’s flesh with yet another magnificent knock that powered Australia’s response after bowling out India for 180. Head, who got off the mark with a cracking boundary off Jasprit Bumrah (4/61), got a reprieve on 76 as Mohammed Siraj failed to complete the catch despite getting both hands to it after the batter tried to slog-sweep R Ashwin, having just smashed his third six against the off-spinner.

IND vs AUS 2nd Test Day 3, Live: India’s struggle against Australian pacers

India lost KL Rahul (7) early in their second innings and Yashasvi Jaiswal (24) was done in by a peach of a delivery from Scott Boland, who again struck with his first delivery that had a hint of late movement. Boland then had Virat Kohli (11) caught behind after he got one to land right in the channel which has been troubling the Indian batting mainstay for a while now. To make matters worse for the visitors, Mitchell Starc knocked down Shubman Gill’s (28) middle stump with his late in-swing doing the damage to leave India at 86 for four in front of a record crowd of over 50,000.

IND vs AUS 2nd Test Day 3, Live: All eyes on Pant-Reddy

Indian batters struggled to find answers as the Australia quicks sizzled with the pink ball under the lights. The hosts had dismissed half the Indian team by the 21st over. Now, the onus is on the shoulders of Rishabh Pant and Nitish Kumar Reddy to bring India out of the trouble. 

IND vs AUS 2nd Test Day 3, Live: Dominating Day 2 for Australia

The pace trio of Mitchell Starc, Scott Boland and Pat Cummins ripped through the Indian top order to put Australia in the drivers seat after Travis Head (140) and Marnus Labuschagne (64) helped the hosts take a sizeable 157-run first-innings lead.

IND vs AUS 2nd Test Day 3, Live: India trail by 29 runs

India tottered to 128 for 5 in their second innings, still trailing Australia by 29 runs at stumps on day two of the pink ball Test in Adelaide on Saturday.

IND vs AUS 2nd Test Day 3, Live: Hello

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of Day 3 of the ongoing second Test of the Border-Gavaskar series between India and Australia, straight from the Adelaide Oval. Stay tuned for all the live coverage.