India vs Australia 2017, 2nd Test: Four Taking Points From Day One

Mar 4, 2017 at 9:19 PM

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India vs Australia 2017, 2nd Test: Four Taking Points From Day One

The new pitch, the new venue, few changes, and same result. Yes, we are talking about India, the one who won the toss and with the will behind the decision to bat first, embarrassed themselves yet again. Unfortunately for them, it was not Steve O’Keefe, rather Nathan Lyon, who picked up his best career figures of 8-50 on day one of the Bengaluru Test.

The start, which was submissive compared to the one in Pune, Indian batting order was knelled down by the spin wizard Lyon with his personal best of 8/50, who four years back, picked up his then best figures of seven for 94 in Delhi against the same side.

KL Rahul, India’s only silverware in the innings stood for 205 balls and scored an impressive looking 90. Captain Virat Kohli made a mockery of himself yet again, after he, for the second successive time left a delivery and paid the price of it. Social media didn’t spare him either.

Among the ten wickets felt, nine went in spinners’ kitty with the majority in Lyon’s share and just one in O’Keefe’s. On what was another dream day for Australia, there were few talking points.

Sportzwiki brings you four of them.

4. ‘TWOMany Changes

Karun Nair returned to International cricket with a 39 ball 26 against Australia in Bengaluru Test.

Karun Nair and Abhinav Mukund were the two in-called batsmen’s for the second Test match. Injured Murali Vijay paved way for Mukund, who was due to get a chance, if his performance in past 18 months was considered. Dropping Jayant Yadav seemed legitimate, after how the surface was pictured for this Test match, a batting track. However, it didn’t behave accordingly.

To say the least, Mukund didn’t impress much either with his initial technique to tackle swing and surely not with his score of zero. Nair, on the other hand, showed glimpses of his class he depicted against England, but couldn’t withstand the turning ball from Steve O’Keefe, having to taste what others did in the first game of the series.

3. KL Rahul’s Heroics At Home

KL Rahul scored a valiant 90 off 205 balls at his home in Bengaluru.

Opener KL Rahul showed grit and worthy resilience to put up 90 off 205 balls before double-batting the ball and finding Matt Renshaw at short mid-off. Rewinding back, he did struggle against bounce but later held grip and paddled his innings sensibly. He scored few boundaries, no sixes, though, but had both Lyon and O’Keefe fight for their wicket.

The right-hand batsman had the advantage of playing at his home ground and made the best of it. Having to watch the other batsmen walking off on constant intervals, he went in a reckless mode and played some wild strides. Overall, he showed heart and played well.

2. The ‘Gary’ Show

Nathan Lyon took his career-best figures of 8 for 50 against India in Bengaluru.

Nathan ‘Gary’ Lyon, the headline creator did it for Australia. The off-spinner bagged his career best figures of eighty for 50 and celebrated Australia’s success on Indian soil like never before. He didn’t do anything different apart from bowling well. He followed the basics, gave enough air, pitched in the right areas and found good results.

Indian batsmen, who are supposed to be better players of spin bowling were taken aback, yet again in the series. as misjudgements from them led to another downfall, possibly their worst slump in the home season. With 58 wickets against India now, Lyon has surpassed Brett Lee (53) to lead the chart of most wickets against the Test champions in Test cricket.

To sum up his talk, he devastated the batting line-up on his will, and that was impressive.

  1. Virat Kohli’s Horrific Miss
Virat Kohli left a straightener of Nathan Lyon’s delivery and got out on 12 on the day of second Test match against Australia in Bengaluru.

Indian captain, Virat Kohli is making mistake, he’s repeating them and honestly not learning from them. His confidence was held back when he left a straightener from O’Keefe in Pune and dent it all over again by not offering a shot to Nathan Lyon’s arm ball in the first innings. A clear case of not picking up the ball from the pitch, Virat suffered the consequences, yet again.

What added salt to the injury was his call to take a DRS, even after KL Rahul’s slight indication of NO. Going by the recent results, Virat has been poor with the review system, losing 31 off his 40 calls. Not only India lost an important batsman at a wrong time, they lost an all important review too.

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