India vs Australia: The inevitability of Steve Smith and Ravindra Jadeja headline a day of twists and turns
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India vs Australia: The inevitability of Steve Smith and Ravindra Jadeja headline a day of twists and turns

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Resurgent Steve Smith’s brilliant ton, Ravindra Jadeja’s heroics and other talking points from Day 2 of the 3rd India vs Australia Test in Sydney. Day one at Sydney, interrupted by rain, ended with Australia the far happier of the two teams – they had won the toss on a surface prone to gigantic first innings totals, against India’s most inexperienced pace attack to play a Test since 2014, and even had their run-smith back among the runs. It was India’s highest and longest opening partnership in Australia since Aakash Chopra and Virender Sehwag shared century stands at both Melbourne and Sydney in 2003/04. It was also India’s longest opening stand outside Asia since December 2010 – it had been 92 innings since an Indian opening pair lasted 20 overs away from the subcontinent.

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