Australia struck early and late in the opening session to confine India to 72 for two at lunch on the main day of the second test at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium on Saturday. After the hosts seemed to have conquer an early difficulty, off-spinner Nathan Lyon expelled Cheteshwar Pujara on the stroke of the interim to end a moment wicket association of 61 with opener Lokesh Rahul, who was unbeaten on 48. After India chief Virat Kohli won the hurl and selected to bat, paceman Mitchell Starc rejected Abhinav Mukund, a trade for harmed opener Murali Vijay, without scoring in the third over of the day.
Playing his first test in very nearly six years, Mukund's innings kept going only eight conveyances with the left-gave batsman totally missing a full hurl from Starc to be given out leg before wicket. In the wake of beginning with an all-pace assault, Australia skipper Steve Smith held up eight overs before giving the ball to left-arm spinner Steve O'Keefe, whose 12-wicket pull in Pune helped the vacationers open a 1-0 lead in the four-coordinate arrangement. O'Keefe knocked down some pins a tight line to keep the batsmen from scoring and ought to have caught Rahul's wicket yet Peter Handscomb dropped a low opportunity to one side at short cover to relief the batsman on 30.
Nearby most loved Rahul played some free shots amid his thump additionally engaged the sizeable group with some freshly determined limits off the quick bowlers. Nonetheless, endeavored clear shots against Lyon twice circled noticeable all around yet landed securely past the scope of Australian defenders. At the flip side, Pujara showed up significantly more strong in resistance and infrequently looked vexed amid his innings before he got an inside edge onto his cushions and this time Handscomb clutched the catch at short leg. Other than Mikund, India rolled out another improvement to the side that lost the opener by 333 keeps running inside three days, with batsman Karun Nair coming in for turn knocking down some pins all-rounder Jayant Yadav. Australia held a similar side from the main test.
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