Bumrah scores five as Australia are bowled out for 104

India captain Jasprit Bumrah deservedly picked up his 11th five-wicket haul while debutant Harshit Rana produced a fiery first spell as Australia were bowled out for 104 early in lunch despite stiff resistance from Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood at the last. wicket on the second day. first test here on Saturday.

The Indian team would have been a little disappointed that it couldn’t take the comfortable lead that seemed in hand when Australia were reduced to 79 for 9. But Starc (26 off 113 balls) defended Hazlewood (7 not out from 31). balls) superbly during his stand on the last wicket of 25 runs, which lasted 18 overs and got a lead of under 50 (46 runs), making it a competition to see who could bat better in the second innings.

The day started on a bright note with Bumrah (5/30 in 18 overs), bowling his second over of the day, getting one up from the back of the length and Carey’s lead passing to good length to Rishabh Pant behind the stumps.

The skipper’s joy was subdued as he headed purposefully back to his bowling mark before Nathan Lyon arrived.

On the other hand, Bumrah started the day with the hefty Harshit Rana (3/48 in 15.2 overs), picking up where he left off on the opening day.

Unlike on opening day, the rookie speedster used more short balls, and one of those well-aimed passes came to Lyon, who K.L. Rahul struck at gully.

Given that India had scored 150 in the first innings for 71 runs, one would have expected the visitors to get rid of the last pair. But the short ball tactics didn’t work against Starc, who chuckled as he reminded his former KKR teammate: “I have a long memory, Harshit.”

Stark showed good defensive qualities before occasionally taking risks with a few aerial strikes. Harshit was replaced by Nitish Reddy for three overs, but with the ball over 40 overs and the seam suppressed, there wasn’t much edge to his wicket-to-wicket bowling.

Finally, Harshit, coming for his second period of the day, forced Starc to try to ride and the skier was caught by Pant.