India shrug off Bumrah injury to claim first-innings lead in Australia
Al JazeeraIndia captain Jasprit Bumrah is forced off with injury on Day Two of the fifth Test but Australia fail to capitalise. India brushed off the absence of captain Jasprit Bumrah to dismiss Australia for 181 and reach 141 for six for an overall lead of 145 on an extraordinary second day of the finely balanced fifth Test. Prasidh Krishna, Mohammed Siraj and Nitish Kumar Reddy stepped into the considerable bowling void left by their captain to rout Australia and fire India to a slender first-innings lead of four runs at Tea. “There’s a long way still to go … so we’ll see what happens.” The crowd of 47,257 enjoying the Sydney sunshine certainly got their money’s worth as the momentum shifted back and forth, as it has over the series, which Australia lead 2-1.