In my last blog I had written about India’s formidable win against the Aussies but this one takes the cake. India won this match comfortably by an innings and 135 runs. India was never in a state of intense trouble except for the partnership between Michael Clarke and Matthew Wade. Now let’s start.
Australia won the toss and brought in their openers Ed Cowan and David Warner to start. As for the changes, India maintained the winning team of the first Test with no changes, whereas Australia dropped pacer Mitchell Starc and spinner Nathan Lyon to give a debut to Xavier Doherty and IPL’s million dollar baby Glenn Maxwell. As the spinners had dominated the last match, it was not so in this match.
Bhuvaneshwar Kumar proved that he is a guaranteed swinger by picking up the first three wickets of David Warner, Ed Cowan and Shane Watson in quick succession. In came skipper Michael Clarke and Phil Hughes. Like in the first match, Phil looked clueless against the spinners and especially against Ashwin. The young offie once again proved that he is India’s top spinner and has the ability to take wickets anywhere, everywhere, anytime and every time. He dismissed Hughes. Then came wicketkeeper-batsman Matthew Wade. Both of them put on a solid partnership to get the Aussies some control of the match. Both went on to register their half-centuries. Then Wade got out after he gave Sehwag an easy catch at slip at a beauty bowled by Ashwin. The other batsmen did not persist much whereas Michael Clarke played the captain’s innings again by missing narrowly on century as he was bowled on a beauty by Jadeja. The Aussies, surprisingly declared their innings on 237/9. India had to chase 237 runs to get a lead.
India’s openers Virender Sehwag and Murali Vijay took guard. Sehwag got out early on 6 and came in the New Wall Cheteshwar Pujara. Vijay and Pujara started off slowly and built on steadily. Slowly they freed their arms and began to play the shots. It looked like a competition between Pujara and Vijay: Who will get to a century first? Finally it was Pujara who won the battle as he reached to his hundred much earlier than expected. There was no stopping him now. He wanted the next big milestone. Vijay had taken the defensive mode for his last 20 to10 runs before his hundred, so he was just rotating the strike. The boundaries kept coming in substantial measure for Vijay, but they were a regular in Pujara’s choice of shots. Pujara got out on a massive 204 while Vijay got out on a controlled 167. The pair put on a partnership of 370 runs, just 6 runs behind the highest partnership of 376 runs put on by Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman. In that partnership, VVS was the dominator. In this Test, Pujara was the dominator. The rest of the Team barely had to do anything and they did mostly nothing to contribute to the score of 503/10 by India.
India hoped to finish the Test in Day 4 itself. And they really did. The Aussies were all out for 133 runs and India won the second Test match against Australia. Ashwin again took 5 wickets. He is turning out to be the best player in this Test Series. Cheteshwar Pujara won the prestigious Man of the Match award. India now lead the four Test-series by 2-0.
Source of Statistics: CricBuzz
Australia won the toss and brought in their openers Ed Cowan and David Warner to start. As for the changes, India maintained the winning team of the first Test with no changes, whereas Australia dropped pacer Mitchell Starc and spinner Nathan Lyon to give a debut to Xavier Doherty and IPL’s million dollar baby Glenn Maxwell. As the spinners had dominated the last match, it was not so in this match.
Bhuvaneshwar Kumar proved that he is a guaranteed swinger by picking up the first three wickets of David Warner, Ed Cowan and Shane Watson in quick succession. In came skipper Michael Clarke and Phil Hughes. Like in the first match, Phil looked clueless against the spinners and especially against Ashwin. The young offie once again proved that he is India’s top spinner and has the ability to take wickets anywhere, everywhere, anytime and every time. He dismissed Hughes. Then came wicketkeeper-batsman Matthew Wade. Both of them put on a solid partnership to get the Aussies some control of the match. Both went on to register their half-centuries. Then Wade got out after he gave Sehwag an easy catch at slip at a beauty bowled by Ashwin. The other batsmen did not persist much whereas Michael Clarke played the captain’s innings again by missing narrowly on century as he was bowled on a beauty by Jadeja. The Aussies, surprisingly declared their innings on 237/9. India had to chase 237 runs to get a lead.
India’s openers Virender Sehwag and Murali Vijay took guard. Sehwag got out early on 6 and came in the New Wall Cheteshwar Pujara. Vijay and Pujara started off slowly and built on steadily. Slowly they freed their arms and began to play the shots. It looked like a competition between Pujara and Vijay: Who will get to a century first? Finally it was Pujara who won the battle as he reached to his hundred much earlier than expected. There was no stopping him now. He wanted the next big milestone. Vijay had taken the defensive mode for his last 20 to10 runs before his hundred, so he was just rotating the strike. The boundaries kept coming in substantial measure for Vijay, but they were a regular in Pujara’s choice of shots. Pujara got out on a massive 204 while Vijay got out on a controlled 167. The pair put on a partnership of 370 runs, just 6 runs behind the highest partnership of 376 runs put on by Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman. In that partnership, VVS was the dominator. In this Test, Pujara was the dominator. The rest of the Team barely had to do anything and they did mostly nothing to contribute to the score of 503/10 by India.
India hoped to finish the Test in Day 4 itself. And they really did. The Aussies were all out for 133 runs and India won the second Test match against Australia. Ashwin again took 5 wickets. He is turning out to be the best player in this Test Series. Cheteshwar Pujara won the prestigious Man of the Match award. India now lead the four Test-series by 2-0.
Source of Statistics: CricBuzz
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