WTC Final Day 2 Highlights: Australia on top as India trail by 318 runs

ICC WTC Final, 2023, India vs Australia - Day 2 Highlights: Steve Smith's century was the only riveting moment as India trailed by 318 at the end of Day 2. Australia scored 469. India struggle at151/5

4:10 PM

WTC Final Live Score: Lucky boundary for Carey

 

Alex Carey is living dangerously here as after being hit in the pads twice last over, he almost got played down in this over by Umesh Yadavm, only to be lucky enough that the ball went for a four behind the stumps via Chinese cut. 

 

Australia Live Score on Day 2- 387/5 in 98 overs

 

4:07 PM

IND vs AUS Live Score: India do not go for reviews on consecutive deliveries

 

The Indian team decided not to take the review on two consecutive balls of Mohammed Shami that hit Alex Carey on the pads. Umpire Nigel Long was unmoved by the appeal and Rohit also decided not to risk the two reviews that they have intact so far on Day 2. 

 

Australia Live Score- 382/5

 

4:04 PM

WTC Final Live: Carey opens his account

 

Alex Carey has managed to open his account courtesy of a well-guided four through the slips cordon down to third-man. 

 

3:57 PM

Rohit charged up after quick wickets

 

Indian captain Rohit Sharma looks animated and charged up after the two quick wickets that India have got. Travis Head and Cameron Green have been sent back to the pavilion in a span of 15 runs and 17 balls. 

 

3:48 PM

IND vs AUS Live Score, WTC Final Day 2: Green signal for Shami, Australia five down

 

India needed wickets this morning and they are getting the wickets as they have now picked up Cameron Green as well. The ball was on the driving length and he drove alright but got only the faintest of the nicks to Shubman Gill at first slip. Australia are now five down for 376. 

 

3:35 PM

IND vs AUS Live Score, WTC Final Day 2: Boundaries come thick and fast for Australia

 

Before the fall of the Head wicket and now even after that, the Australian batters are dealing in boundaries. Since the start of the play, they have hit seven fours and it is only the seventh over of the day in progress.

 

3:32 PM

IND vs AUS Live Score, WTC Final Day 2: Siraj gets Head, India breakthrough

 

The wicket has finally come and once again it is on a ball that didn’t deserve a wicket. But now that it has come, India would be relieved as they have gotten rid of Travis Head, the batter who was dealing in boundaries. He tried to hook the short ball and got a faint edge that carried to Bharat, who made no mistakes behind the stumps. Head is gone for 163, and Australia are 361/4. 

 

3:27 PM

IND vs AUS Live Score, WTC Final Day 2: No one like him

3:18 PM

IND vs AUS Live Score, WTC Final Day 2: 150 up for Travis Head

 

Right after Steve Smith brought up his hundred, Travis Head, who was batting on 146* overnight, also brought up his 150 and the two look really set to dominate the Indian bowlers. 

 

3:16 PM

IND vs AUS Live Score, WTC Final Day 2: Driving lengths being provided

 

The Indian bowlers are bowling too full and thereby providing driving lengths to the Australian batters and they are finding no problems at all in dealing with those balls.

 

3:04 PM

IND vs AUS Live Score, WTC Final Day 2: Steve Smith brings up hundred in the first two balls

 

It did not take more than two balls for Steve Smith to score the five runs needed to get to his 31st Test century. He started the second day’s play on 95 and then hit Mohammed Siraj for back-to-back fours to get the hundred. This is Smith’s seventh hundred in England. 

 

2:48 PM

IND vs AUS Live Score, WTC Final Day 2: What does the pitch report say?

 

Kumar Sangakkara and Naser Hussain on the ground said that it is going to be batting paradise on day two of the Test match, but the pitch will start to spin come day three and that is when the game would get tougher for the batters. 

 

2:41 PM

IND vs AUS Live Score, WTC Final Day 2: What is the weather going to be like?

 

It looks sunny alright in the live pictures coming from the Oval in London. The forecast is also similar for the entire day. It would remain sunny and part from the early swing on offer due to overnight moisture on the ground and the cool breeze, bowlers in for a hard day’s work once again. 

 

2:28 PM

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2:23 PM

IND vs AUS Live Score, WTC Final Day 2: Who won the toss and what was decided?

 

Earlier in the day, India's captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and decided to bowl first. Mohammed Siraj got Usman Khawaja, the highest run-getter for Australia in this cycle of WTC for a duck. Marnus Labuschagne and David Warner added 69 for the second wicket before the latter tried chasing a wide ball down the leg and got caught behind the stumps, brilliantly by KS Bharat off the bowling of Shardul Thakur.

 

Post Lunch, India picked up Labuschagne through Mohammed Shami. However, Head came out all guns blazing and shifted the momentum completely.