Career-best figures of 6-48 from Mitchell Starc laid the platform for Australia’s batters, who blunted the threat Jasprit Bumrah under lights to finish day one just 94 short of India’s first innings score of 180.
Mitchell Starc bowled Australia into a strong position in the second Test with a career-best six-wicket haul before the lights went out twice at the Adelaide Oval – but the power failure failed to distract Nathan McSweeney and Marnus Labuschagne, who dug in and got through to stumps unscathed.
McSweeney, in his second Test, was dropped on three and survived an LBW review on 31 but survived to be not out on 38 from 97 balls, with Labuschagne unbeaten on 20 from 67. Labuschagne’s record of one score above 10 from his previous 10 innings made for grim reading but this was a gritty and cautious innings. Few people know Labuschagne spent 25 minutes by himself at the end of Australia’s evening training session on Wednesday night facing throwdowns with a pink ball to get his technique in order.Before Labuschagne could get off the mark, play was stopped twice due to issues with the ground’s lights. The first delay lasted 28 seconds at 8.
Earlier, Starc picked up a wicket with the first ball of a Test for the third time in his career as Australia rebounded from an underwhelming display in Perth to put India’s batsmen on the back foot. “I feel like the ball has been coming out alright for the last little while and I don’t think we did too much wrong last week,” Starc said on Fox. “I thought we were pretty good.”
Starc celebrated accordingly – Jaiswal, having made a duck in the first innings in Perth, tormented the Australians with a score of 161 to set up India’s 295-run win, even sledging Starc for not bowling fast enough.
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