Travis Head dominated the Indian bowling line-up in the Gabba Test match by playing a big knock of 152 runs in 160 deliveries with a strike rate of 95 while smashing 18 fours in his inning, while Smith became the first player to smash 10 centuries against India in a minimum number of innings, i.e., 45 innings only.
The Indian skipper won the coin flip session of the match and elected to bowl first against the Aussies. The young side of the Indian bowling lineup dominated the first session, scalping 3 big wickets of the Australians.
Australia plotted a comeback on the second day of the rain-interrupted match after Travis Head and Steve Smith played the knock that Rishabh Pant played in his last Gabba test match of BGT 2023.
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Indian bowlers were left frustrated in the middle by Head and Smith’s fine knocks. The inning became more destructive after the skipper himself dropped Centurion Head.
Nitish Kumar Reddy produced an extra edge of the head’s bat that went left of Rohit Sharma. Sharma put in a diving effort; however, he missed the ball, leaving the Indian squad more drained in Brisbane.
However, Bumrah dismissed Head on the 5th ball of the 87th over, completing his five-wicket haul in the Gabba Test match at Brisbane and also completing his 12th five-wicket haul in Test cricket.
Bumrah also surpassed the record of Kapil Dev’s seven 5-wicket hauls in the SENA countries.
However, the pair of Steve Smith and Travis Head had already scored 241 runs for the 5th wicket partnership at the Gabba Test match in Brisbane.
Both registered centuries in their name, while it was Travis Head’s second consecutive test century against India, as he had smashed 140 runs in just 141 deliveries at the second test match at Adelaide Oval. Head had registered 3 golden ducks in the Gabba before the centurion knock against India.
Steve Smith equalized the record of Joe Root for most test centuries against India after he completed his 10th century against India in just 41 innings.
Australians are now at 405 runs at the loss of 7 wickets with Alex Carey and Mitchell Starc in the crease for the opening session of day 3. Carey is at 45 runs while pace gun Starc is at 7 runs on 7 deliveries.
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Shikha Sagar on his X handle wrote, “The day this guy retires our bowling is doomed.”
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X handle user named Pintu took X to post a video featuring Wrestler John Cena taking out his belt and smashing another wrestler, referring to Cena as Head and the poor wrestler as India in the cricket.
Another X-handle account posted a funny meme on their account about Head’s batting against the other team and Head’s explosive batting against India.
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