India Vs Australia 2nd Test: Australia win by 146 runs, level series 1-1 Starting from overnight 112 for five, India lost their last five wickets for 28 runs and it was all over within 65 minutes of play.
India Vs Australia 2nd Test: Australia win by 146 runs, level series 1-1 on Business Standard. Starting from overnight 112 for five, India lost their last five wickets for 28 runs and it was all over within 65 minutes of play.
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» India crumbled in the face of Australia's remarkable
metamorphosis and crashed to a 146-run defeat in the second Test here Tuesday, surrendering a rare hard-earned ascendancy in a series Down Under.
The hosts levelled the four-match series 1-1 after India were bowled out for 140 runs in 56 overs in their second innings on the fifth and final day. Starting from overnight 112 for five, India lost their last five wickets for 28 runs and it was all over within 65 minutes of play.
Also Know More on → India tour of Australia 2018 This was Australia's first Test win since the ball-tampering scandal broke out in South Africa earlier this year. Having won the opening game by 31 runs to go in front a week ago, India had been talked up as a threat coming into the capital of Western Australia, but they wilted as the pace-spin duo of Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon worked in tandem at the Optus Stadium. Starc (3-46) and Lyon (3-39) finished with three wickets apiece, while Josh Hazlewood (2-24) and Pat Cummins (2-25) took a brace each. India surely missed a trick in not playing a specialist spinner, something that was admitted by one of their own at the end of fourth day's play.
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