Australia have continued to plunder runs on the second day of the World Test Championship (WTC) ultimate towards India at The Oval. Travis Head was the person for them taking the aggressive route with the bat and slamming a stunning century on the opening day. Steve Smith additionally batted effectively scoring 95 runs by the tip of day’s play. The former Australia skipper began the second day with a couple of good boundaries to carry up his thirty first Test ton.
It took solely two balls for him to achieve triple figures. It was his forty third century in worldwide cricket as effectively having already scored 12 in the ODIs. He has now equalled Rohit Sharma in phrases of tons on the worldwide stage and now has joint third-most centuries amongst lively gamers.
Virat Kohli is on the prime in this facet with 75 tons to his identify whereas Joe Root and David Warner have joint second most tons on the highest stage. Both have scored 45 centuries in their worldwide profession thus far.
As far as the continuing WTC Final is anxious, Australia have continued to attain runs at will with Steve Smith holding key but once more. Travis Head accomplished his 150, for the fourth time in his profession however Mohammed Siraj obtained the higher of him on 163. Cameron Green additionally obtained out quickly for a low rating off Mohammed Shami. India have a good likelihood now to make extra inroads and limit Australia to a manageable whole.
Playing XIs:
India:Â Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Srikar Bharat (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj
Australia:Â David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Travis Head, Cameron Green, Alex Carey (wk), Pat Cummins (c), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Scott Boland
