Steve Smith and Pat Cummins put on a century stand to power Australia on day two of the Boxing Day Test against India. The Australians made the most of batting-friendly conditions at the MCG, while Yashasvi Jaiswal and KL Rahul provided some resistance for India.
Tea was due on day two of the Boxing Day Test and the contest was at an absorbing pass. Australia spent the first half of the day making hay while the sun shone from a cloudless sky. On a pitch that had quickened up to a nicety overnight, there was plenty to make. Steve Smith wound back the years as he wound up his arms, scattering the ball to all parts. He does not so much hook sixes as cast them over fine leg like a fly fisherman.
This was his fifth MCG hundred; he loves the place like he loves his mum and his bat in no particular order. Pat Cummins, playing a mix of conventional and Konstas cricket, had matched him blow for robust blow in a century stand that gave Australia the running in this match. Cummins in such a vein divides sentiment, between appreciation for what he can do and mystification about why hasn’t done it more often. But he doesn’t often get this batting conditions as blissful as this. He reaped. About 85,000 were in the ground, a second-day record. Fortunately at the ’G, there was still elbow and leg room for all. A blind man could have followed the match by the crowd’s tunes and tones.. The Indian half - and it was half - wanted to see Virat Kohli the way some Catholics want to see Mary: desperately, but not yet.But the tyro Yashasvi Jaiswal was growing into his work handsomely, walking out to quicks in a way that was part technical, part belligerent. He hit the ball as eagerly as all newbies, but as sweetly as the veteran Smith. There is still room for orthodoxy and aesthetics in the grand old game. And KL Rahul was playing the sort of serene and composed innings that has made him India’s leading scorer in this series.. It was full, but not too full, on that length that bets runs if there is no movement against wickets if there is. The odds this day had favoured batsmen, but suddenly, this Cummins delivery swung and seamed down the line of off stump, hitting the top of it, the grail of all seamers, pruning off the bai
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