AUS vs WI 2nd Test Day 2 Highlights: Australian captain Pat Cummins took a very bold decision in the second Test being played against West Indies in Brisbane. The Australian captain declared the innings without gaining any lead and invited the visiting West Indies for the second innings. This decision of Cummins surprised the cricket world. At the time of declaring the innings, Australia was 22 runs behind the visiting West Indies.
Batting first in the match, West Indies scored 311/10 runs in their first innings. In reply, Australia came to bat for its first innings and declared the innings on the score of 289/9 runs. Australia had all out West Indies on the very second day of the match and then on the same day they declared the innings and called West Indies on the field for the second innings. By the end of the day, West Indies, batting in its second innings, had taken a lead of 35 runs at 13/1 on the board.
Australia, who came to bat for the first innings on the second day, did not get a good start. The Kangaroo team had lost 4 wickets for 24 runs and 5 wickets for 54 runs. That is, half the Australian team had returned to the pavilion on the score of 54 runs. But during this time, Usman Khawaja, who came to open, remained steady.
After 5 wickets fell, Khawaja along with Alex Carey made a partnership of 96 runs for the sixth wicket, which brought a lot of relief to Australia. The flourishing partnership between the two ended with the wicket of Alex Carey in the 28th over, when the team's score had reached 150 runs. Carey scored 65 runs in 49 balls with the help of 9 fours and 1 six. After this, Australia lost the next wicket i.e. the seventh wicket in the form of Mitchell Starc at the score of 161 runs.
Then Khawaja along with captain Pat Cummins added 81 runs for the eighth wicket. The partnership between Khawaja and captain Cummins ended in the 48th over when Australia's score was 242 runs. During this, the wicket of opener Usman Khawaja fell, who scored 75 runs in 131 balls with the help of 10 fours.
Then the team got the ninth blow in the form of Nathan Lyon with a score of 289. After Lyon's wicket, captain Pat Cummins, present at the other end, announced the declaration of the innings. During this, Cummins remained unbeaten after scoring 64* runs in 73 balls with the help of 8 fours and 1 six.
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