India vs Australia, 2nd Test Day 3: Jadeja stars as India hammer Australia to take 2-0 Test series lead

India retained the Border-Gavaskar Trophy as they beat Australia by six wickets in the second Test to take an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy on Sunday, at the Arun Jaitley Stadium.

Match Summary

India vs Australia, 2nd Test, Australia tour of India

India 262/10 (83.3 ov) & 118/4 (26.4 ov)

Australia 263/10 (78.4 ov) & 113/10 (31.1 ov)

Result - India won by 6 wickets

Scorecard

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Match Day Analysis

India spinner Ravindra Jadeja returned career-best figures of 7-42 to lead Australia's hammering by six wickets inside three days Sunday to bring the hosts to a 2-0 Test series lead.

Jadeja, a left-arm orthodox, teamed up with fellow spinner Ravichandran Ashwin to dismiss Australia for 113 in a morning session when the tourists' batting imploded, thanks to an overused sweep shot on a tricky New Delhi pitch.

The hosts romped to their victory target of 115 in the second session to guarantee them retention of the Border-Gavaskar trophy in the four-match series.

They have won their previous three series against Australia and are now close to securing a spot in the World Test Championship final.

India lost skipper Rohit Sharma, run out after a fluent 31, and Virat Kohli, who surpassed 25,000 international runs, stumped on 20. 

But Cheteshwar Pujara stood firm with 31 in his landmark 100th Test to steer the team home with a winning four as wicketkeeper-batsman Srikar Bharat, unbeaten on 23, looked on.

Nathan Lyon took two wickets to return a match-haul of seven.

Australia, who also lost the opener inside three days, crashed from their overnight 61-1 to get bowled out in 31.1 overs after losing nine wickets for 52 runs in just over 90 minutes of mayhem.

Jadeja improved on his previous Test best of 7-48 to add to his three in the first innings. Ashwin grabbed the remaining three.

Ashwin struck in the first over of the day to get Travis Head caught behind for 43, three balls after the left-hander hit a boundary to add to his overnight score.

Marnus Labuschagne attempted to take the attack to the opposition with the paddle shot and the reverse sweep but was bowled by Jadeja for 35.

David Warner's concussion substitute Matt Renshaw looked clueless against spin in his eight balls at the crease before he missed an attempted sweep, giving Ashwin another lbw.

Wickets fell like nine-pins and Nathan Lyon narrowly averted a Jadeja hat-trick but the bowler kept up the charge to wrap up the Australian innings, which started on a promising note near the end of day two.

Axar Patel set up victory with his counter-attacking 74 on Saturday, lifting India from a precarious 139-7 to just one short of Australia's first-innings total.

The left-hander put on a key 114-run eighth-wicket stand with Ashwin to turn the tables on Australia, who kept coming back with Lyon leading the bowling charge.

Lyon returned figures of 5-67 with his off-spin and was supported by fellow spinners Todd Murphy and debutant Matthew Kuhnemann -- both of whom took two each.

The Aussies suffered an early blow ahead of day two when star opener Warner was ruled out due to concussion after getting hit on the head in his knock of 15.

The third match is in Indore from March 1.

Match Stats

Australia 1st Innings Fall of wickets: 1-50 (David Warner - 15.2 ov), 2-91 (Marnus Labuschagne - 22.4 ov), 3-91 (Steven Smith - 22.6 ov), 4-108 (Travis Head - 31.2 ov), 5-167 (Usman Khawaja - 45.5 ov), 6-168 (Alex Carey - 46.6 ov), 7-227 (Pat Cummins - 67.2 ov), 8-227 (Todd Murphy - 67.6 ov), 9-246 (Nathan Lyon - 74.2 ov), 10-263 (Matthew Kuhnemann - 78.4 ov)    

India 1st Innings Fall of wickets: 1-46 (KL Rahul - 17.1 ov), 2-53 (Rohit Sharma - 19.2 ov), 3-54 (Cheteshwar Pujara - 19.4 ov), 4-66 (Shreyas Iyer - 25.2 ov), 5-125 (Ravindra Jadeja - 46.5 ov), 6-135 (Virat Kohli - 49.3 ov), 7-139 (Kona Srikar Bharat - 50.5 ov), 8-253 (Ravichandran Ashwin - 80.2 ov), 9-259 (Axar Patel - 81.6 ov), 10-262 (Mohammed Shami - 83.3 ov)

Australia 2nd Innings Fall of wickets: 1-23 (Usman Khawaja - 5.5 ov), 2-65 (Travis Head - 12.6 ov), 3-85 (Steven Smith - 18.6 ov), 4-95 (Marnus Labuschagne - 21.4 ov), 5-95 (Matt Renshaw - 22.6 ov), 6-95 (Peter Handscomb - 23.1 ov), 7-95 (Pat Cummins - 23.2 ov), 8-110 (Alex Carey - 27.1 ov), 9-113 (Nathan Lyon - 29.5 ov), 10-113 (Matthew Kuhnemann - 31.1 ov)

India 2nd Innnings Fall of wickets: 1-6 (KL Rahul - 1.1 ov), 2-39 (Rohit Sharma - 6.5 ov), 3-69 (Virat Kohli - 18.2 ov), 4-88 (Shreyas Iyer - 21.4 ov)

 

 

Playing XIs

India: Rohit Sharma (captain), KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Ravindra Jadeja, Kona Srikar Bharat (wicket-keeper), Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj

Australia: David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Travis Head, Peter Handscomb, Alex Carey (wicket-keeper), Pat Cummins (captain), Todd Murphy, Nathan Lyon, Matthew Kuhnemann

 

Match Details

Toss: Australia, elected to bat

Venue: Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi

Start time: 0400 hrs GMT

Match officials: Michael Gough, Nitin Menon (On-field Umpires); Richard Illingworth (TV Umpire); Anil Chaudhary (Reserve Umpire); Andy Pycroft (Match-referee)

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