The second day was like a nightmare, the game changed in the last 20 minutes, Indian fans were heartbroken.

New Delhi: Australia has dominated the Boxing Day Test between India and Australia in Melbourne. Although, at one time the Indian team had made a brilliant comeback, but in the last 20 minutes of the second day, the course of the game changed and Australia again strengthened its position. In this match, Australia ended its innings at 474 runs in its first innings. After this, the Indian team has lost 5 wickets for 164 runs till the end of the day's play. Now Team India is 310 runs behind Australia. At the time of stumps, Rishabh Pant returned unbeaten on 6 runs and Ravindra Jadeja on 4 runs. India had lost two wickets for 153 runs, but after that the match changed as soon as Jaiswal was run out. India lost three wickets in just 6 runs. Yashasvi Jaiswal was out on 82, Virat Kohli 36, KL Rahul 24, Rohit Sharma 3 and Akashdeep was out on zero. Pat Cummins and Scott Boland took two wickets each for Australia.

Great partnership between Virat and Jaiswal

In the fourth test, Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal came to open the innings. Rohit's poor form continued and he also flopped as an opener. Rohit Sharma was out after scoring three runs in five balls. After this, KL Rahul returned to the pavilion after scoring 24 runs in 42 balls with the help of three fours. India had lost two wickets for 51 runs. After this, there was a partnership of 102 runs for the third wicket between Yashasvi Jaiswal and Virat Kohli. Jaiswal was run out after scoring 82 runs. He hit 11 fours and one six in 118 balls. As soon as he was out, the position of the Indian team became weak and Virat was also out after scoring 36 runs. Virat hit 4 fours in his innings. After this Akashdeep was also out without opening the account.

Steve Smith's brilliant century

Earlier, Australia scored a huge score of 474 runs in its first innings. This was the first time in the last 10 years that Australia scored more than 450 runs against India. Steve Smith played a brilliant inning of 140 runs, while Pat Cummins scored 49 runs. For India, Jasprit Bumrah took 4 wickets and Ravindra Jadeja took 3 wickets. Read Also: Yashasvi Jaiswal played a strong innings, still missed a century, broke the record of Sachin-Vishwanath

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