Australia National Cricket Team pacer Mitchell Starc has been at his best with the pink ball in the ongoing game against the India National Cricket Team. The second game of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 is taking place at the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide.
Mitchell Starc has been making the pink-ball talk and has troubled India National Cricket Team batters big time in the ongoing game. The left-arm pacer has broken the back of the visitors and has picked some crucial wickets for his team, putting them in a strong position.
Mitchell Starc has seemed unplayable right from ball 1, and of all the wickets that he has got, the scalp of Harshit Rana caught the attention of many. It was a perfect delivery and it’s fair to say that even any top-order batter would’ve looked clueless against it.
Mitchell Starc bowled a trademark delivery, inswinging yorker. The India National Cricket Team batter was beaten for pace as the ball beat the inside edge by a long way and hit the base of the off-stump to send the batter packing.
Mitchell Starc delivers an inswinging peach of a yorker to send Harshit Rana packing in Adelaide
Here’s the video:
The inswinging peach of a yorker gets Mitchell Starc his fifth wicket!#AUSvIND | #DeliveredWithSpeed | @NBN_Australia pic.twitter.com/SwVIHFiNhK
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) December 6, 2024
Mitchell Starc removed Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Ravichandran Ashwin and Harshit Rana to take his 15th Test fifer
The first innings of the ongoing second Test between Australia National Cricket and the India National Cricket Team was all about Mitchell Starc. The left-arm pacer wreaked havoc across the visitor’s batting lineup as he put his team in the driver’s seat.
Mitchell Starc removed Yashasvi Jaiswal on the first ball of the match and after that didn’t stop. The premier pacer went on to remove KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Ravichandran Ashwin and Harshit Rana to complete his fifer and put the India National Cricket Team under massive pressure.
Mitchell Starc completed his 15th Test fifer as India National Cricket Team got bundled out on just 180 runs. Apart from him, Australia National Cricket Team skipper Pat Cummins and Scott Boland took two wickets each.
Nitish Kumar Reddy was the leading run-getter for India with his 42-run knock
For the Rohit Sharma-led side, Nitish Kumar Reddy was the leading run-getter for his team. After the Team lost quick wickets, he played a counter-attacking innings and ended with an innings of 42 runs that helped the team put a fighting total on the board.
KL Rahul (37) and Shubman Gill (30) also made decent contributions at the top and brought India back in the game after they lost Yashasvi Jaiswal. The middle order failed to get going, but Rishabh Pant (21) and Ravichandran Ashwin (22) also played vital hands for the team. The visitors would now be hoping to replicate the same effort from Perth Test with the ball and wrap up Australian innings as quickly as possible.