The second day of the fifth Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) Test in Sydney was all about the bowlers. 15 wickets fell on Saturday. Australia could only score 181 runs in the first innings, giving India a 4-run lead.
Till stumps, India scored 141 runs losing 6 wickets. Pant is the Indian to score the fastest fifty against Australia. Bumrah became the highest wicket-taking bowler in the foreign series.
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Facts:
Virat Kohli came out with a single-digit score (10 or less) for the 10th time in the 2024-25 season. Rohit Sharma also holds the top spot in this list. This is only the second time in the last 70 years that this has happened at the Sydney Cricket Ground. When both teams scored less than 200 runs in their first innings (India 185 runs and Australia 181 runs). Earlier in 1979-80, England (123) and Australia (145) were all absent. Rishabh Pant is the third batsman after Ben Stokes and Sir Vivian Richards to score a half-century at a strike rate of over 150 twice in Tests. Scott Boland dismissed Virat Kohli for the fifth time in the Test on Saturday. Kohli has only managed to score 38 runs against them so far.
1. Bumrah, the bowler taking most wickets in an overseas series Jasprit Bumrah became the bowler taking most wickets for India in a single overseas tour. He has taken 32 wickets in the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy season. He broke Bishan Singh Bedi’s record. Bedi took 31 wickets in the 1977–78 season.
2. Kohli’s average in Australia In the Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) 2024-25, Virat Kohli could only score 190 runs in 5 matches. His average during this period is 23.75. This was his lowest average while touring Australia. In Australia, he scored 692 runs in 4 matches in the 2014-15 season.
Fastest fifty for India: Rishabh Pant became the Indian batsman to score the fastest half-century against Australia. He completed his half-century in just 29 balls in the second innings. Pant played an innings of 61 runs off 33 balls with the help of 6 fours and 4 sixes.
Indian players scored the most runs in the first over of the Test. Yashasvi Jaiswal hit 4 fours against Starc in the first over of the second innings. He became the highest run-scoring batsman in the first innings of the Test for India. Virender Sehwag and Rohit Sharma occupy the second and third positions with 13-13 points.
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India are 145 points ahead of Australia in the 5th Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. On Saturday, the team scored 141 runs after losing 6 wickets at the end of the second day’s play. Ravindra Jadeja returned unbeaten on 8 runs and Washington Sundar on 6 runs. …