IND vs AUS 2nd test Report: The Indian team, which had raised hopes after a spectacular victory in the Perth Test, has surrendered shamefully in Adelaide. The Indian batsmen who had given a tough time to the Australian pacers in Perth, could not stay on the crease for even a day in Adelaide. As a result, Australia crushed India by 10 wickets in the second test match played with the pink ball. With this victory, Australia has equaled the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series 1-1. Not only this, Australia has also taken the top spot in the WTC points table by pushing India to the third position. The third match of the series will be played at the Gaba Stadium in Brisbane from December 14.

The second Test between India and Australia was played in Adelaide from 6 to 8 December. The five-day day-night Test was supposed to go on till 10 December, but Australia won it in just two and a half days. Australia's pace bowlers dominated in this match played with the pink ball. They bowled out India for 180 runs in the first innings and 175 runs in the second innings. In both innings, all the wickets were taken by three Australian pacers. In the first innings, Mitchell Starc took the most 6 wickets, while in the second innings, captain Pat Cummins won.

In a test match, 90
overs are usually played in a day. Talking about the Indian batsmen, they could not stay on the crease for 90 overs even in both the innings. Australia bowled out India in 44.1 overs in the first innings. India's second innings was bowled out in 36.5 overs. In this way, India could bat only for 81 overs in both the innings.

Hopes were dashed as soon as Pant was out.
In reply to India's 180 runs, Australia scored 337 runs in the first innings. In this way, they got a lead of 157 runs in the first innings. In reply, India had scored 128 runs for 5 wickets by the end of the second day's play. India started playing ahead from this score on the third day. When India started batting on the third day, Rishabh Pant and Nitish Reddy were at the crease. Pant was out without adding a single run to his second day's score and with this India's hopes of a comeback were dashed.

Nitish Reddy averted innings defeat
After losing the sixth wicket in the form of Pant at the score of 128, India started fearing innings defeat. Nitish Kumar Reddy saved India from this embarrassing situation. Like the first innings, he scored 42 runs in the second innings as well. He took India to 166 runs. Nitish was caught at third man while playing an upper cut at this score. He was out as the ninth batsman. 9 runs later, as soon as Siraj was out, the Indian team was all out at 175 runs. In this way, Australia got a target of 19 runs to win, which they achieved without losing any wickets.