IND vs CLOSED: The day-night Test match being played in Adelaide was in the name of Australia on the first day. After dismissing India for 180 runs in the first innings, Australia scored 86 runs on the scoreboard for the loss of 1 wicket at the end of the first day’s play. The next day, Marnus Labusche scored a brilliant half-century for Australia, followed by Travis Head who batted brilliantly and scored a brilliant century. In this way, Australia managed to score 337 runs in their first innings. Travis Head played a brilliant innings of 140 runs off 141 balls with the help of 17 fours and 4 sixes. Australia managed to take a 157-run lead over India in their first innings thanks to a brilliant innings by Head and Lebuschagne.
In reply to Australia’s 337 runs, the Indian team had a bad start in the second innings as well. Team India lost the wicket of KL Rahul to Pat Cummins at the score of 12 runs. After this, Yashaswi Jaiswal also departed on the score of 42 runs. Jaiswal became a victim of Boland. Virat Kohli too could not do anything special and gave his wicket to Scott Boland after scoring 11 runs. Shubman Gill (28) and Rohit Sharma (6) also returned to the pavilion cheaply. By the end of the second day’s play, Team India’s score was 128 for 5 and Team India was still 29 runs behind Australia.
Saved the world record from breaking
Like the first day, on the second day too, Team India’s batting was very bad. In such a situation, it can be said that the second day was also in the name of Australia. On the second day, both the teams scored a total of 379 runs. Meanwhile, a world record was broken. In fact, if 5 more runs were scored today, the world record for most runs scored in a day-night Test would have been broken. Currently this record is in the name of Australia-Pakistan. In the year 2019, 383 runs were scored in a day in the Test match played in Adelaide. That is, this record kept breaking by 5 runs.
Most runs scored in a day-night test in a day-night test
- 383 runs – Australia vs Pakistan, Adelaide 2019
- 379 runs – Australia v India, Adelaide 2024
- 369 runs – Pakistan vs West Indies, Dubai 2016
- 362 runs – New Zealand v England, Mount Maunganui 2023
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