India beat Australia by 75 runs in second Test – as it happened

And some heated reaction:

Here’s our match report from Adam Collins:

35th over: Australia 110-8 (Handscomb 24, Lyon 0)

Lyon tries to get himself out by slogging to cover, but fails. Survives four balls of the Jadeja over. somehow.

34th over: Australia 110-7 (Handscomb 24, O’Keefe 2)

Handscomb a defensive masterclass against Ashwin. Watches the turn, waits back, sharp reflexes. Blots out a maiden.

33rd over: Australia 110-7 (Handscomb 24, O’Keefe 2)

Yadav bowls straight, attacking the stumps. Handscomb is good enough to work a couple of singles through square leg, while O’Keefe is hit on the body and gets a leg bye. Yadav couldn’t resist the short ball to a tailender.

32nd over: Australia 107-7 (Handscomb 22, O’Keefe 2)

Alarm, alarm, alarm. O’Keefe edges a single. Handscomb flicks a more confident one. Then O’Keefe plays a similar shot, but squarer, and there’s hesitation with the calling. O’Keefe would have been run out at the non-striker’s end had the throw hit. It doesn’t. They get a valuable run, just before Handscomb is beaten on the outside edge by an absolute snorter that spits on straight. Ashwin battled in the first innings without huge reward, but he’s putting on a display here. Handscomb isn’t fussed, coming outside his off stump to nudge another run square on the leg side.

31st over: Australia 103-7 (Handscomb 20, O’Keefe 0)

Handscomb isn’t quite sure what to do here. How to approach this? He’s doing it amturely, just trying to calm things down, get settled, instil some confidence in his batting partner. He defends the entire Umesh Yadav over, and when the last ball rears up and hits him high in the ribs under his front arm, he cracks a broad grin and laughs at the bowler. Loving the contest. This is a great tell about a player.

30th over: Australia 103-7 (Handscomb 20, O’Keefe 0)

O’Keefe can also defend - remember he was part of Australia sitting on 8-161 for a session against Sri Lanka in Pallekele. He defends Ashwin’s last two balls with positive footwork.

29th over: Australia 103-6 (Handscomb 20, Starc 1)

Mitchell Starc has 117 runs so far in the series, in his three innings. That makes him fifth on the runs list, behind only Rahul, Smith, Renshaw and Pujara. If he gets another decent knock here, he could top the list for runs by an Australian No8 or below in a series against India. More importantly, if he gets another decent knock here, Australia wins a Test and retains a trophy. Umesh bowls short, Handscomb stylishly cuts a run, then Starc opens his innings by nudging another into the leg side.

28th over: Australia 101-6 (P Handscomb 19, Starc 0)

Last ball of Ahswin’s over, as he took the wicket before tea, and Starc defends it.

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Wellity wellity well. Get your lunch containers ready indeed, lambies and gooseberries. Inhale, exhale. Think of the work of Telepopmusik, or The Prodigy: breathe. This is a wonderful Test match. This is the business end of it. Another fast Mitchell Starc innings could turn it over. A couple of quick Ravi wickets, whether (ndra) or (chandran), and it flips the other way. But wait... if something flips in either direction, it lands the same way up. So to go the other way it needs to not flip at all. Oh, I don’t even know anymore. Hello. Geoff here. Almost having a coronary already. Farewell, Russell, goodnight sweet prince. And flights of appeals sing thee to thy rest.

27th over: Australia 101-5 (Handscomb 19, Wade 0)

Australia had just overcome another symbolic psychological hurdle by moving into triple figures before Marsh perished, but to speak like Matthew Hayden for a moment, this has really put the cat amongst the pigeons, cats, mice, plus both sleeping and top dogs. Matthew Wade is at the crease now and Jadeja paired with Ashwin. Buckle in.

25th over: Australia 98-4 (Handscomb 16, M Marsh 13)

Ishant Sharma is back to replace Umesh, and I like this a lot. He really set the wheels in motion with his fiery spell earlier, but right as I type that Handscomb lathers him through cover for a boundary to reduce the target to two figures. He’s also nudging the singles when they’re on offer. Equally as good is a four Mitch Marsh punches through mid-on, with a perfectly straight bat. That means Australia have reached the half-way point in this chase, and it gets even better when Marsh angles another boundary through the cordon. Super shot.

Phil Withall, meanwhile, is the Douglas Jardine of the OBO – a man fond of skullduggery, and around whom you would not leave your pint unattended. “May I suggest a simple way round the embarrassment Smith just endured?” he writes. “Simply get a wrist worn device, looking like a popular fitness tracking product and have a member of the coaching staff send a vibration through it when an appeal is advisable. Not within the spirit of the game but very modern. It may catch on, I’d better patent it.” Australia need 90 runs to win.

24th over: Australia 85-4 (Handscomb 11, M Marsh 5)

Ravindra Jadeja has 0-3 from six overs at this point, and I reckon Kohli should keep him on a while longer while he’s applying such suffocating pressure. The temptation, of course, will be to bring back Ashwin, who bowls a higher number of wicket balls.

23rd over: Australia 84-4 (Handscomb 10, M Marsh 5)

Yadav gets another over and why the hell not, because he’s heauled his side back into the contest and every time you think his threat is disspipating he takes a wicket. Having said that, Peter Handscomb has just deposited him to the fence at deep point with a quite magnificent square drive and Mitch Marsh drives confidently to get four too. With six wickets in hand, Australia need 104 runs to win.

22nd over: Australia 75-4 (Handscomb 5, M Marsh 1)

Maiden from Jadeja. He’s absolutely bloody loving this. So am I. Who wouldn’t?

21st over: Australia 75-4 (Handscomb 5, M Marsh 1)

Holy moly there will be some stink about this Smith thing. Yadav has finished another superb over now, but replays show that Kohli was enraged by Smith’s attempt to seek assistance from the stands. We’ve barely had time to notice that Mitch Marsh is at the crease and off the mark. Gird up your loins, Australia. This could get very ugly. Kohli is winding his arms around and whipping the crowd into a frenzy. It’s all gone a bit UFC. I think I need a double shot of something luridly coloured and petrol-tasting.

20th over: Australia 71-3 (Smith 28, P Handscomb 2)

I’ve just realised how this pans out, dear readers: Ravindra Jadeja takes 7-20 and Mitchell Marsh gets out without playing a shot, having frozen on the spot pondering an unintelligible passage of Matthew Hayden’s commentary. Just a maiden for Jadeja here. He’ll swing the wrecking ball through any minute, I’m sure.

19th over: Australia 71-3 (Smith 28, Handscomb 2)

The other person who’d better get Australia home in this game is Steve Smith; it did indeed seem to be the Australian captain who talked Shaun Marsh out of reviewing that dismissal. The problem with that is that Smith was practically standing at mid-off as the ball struck his partner, and the bowler was coming around the wicket. Smith was about the least qualified person in the ground to make a call on that one. In further bad news for Australia, Handscomb now cops one in the bread basket from Umesh. By his reaction it didn’t tickle. “I have no fingernails left,” says reader James Lane. “Is it too early to start drinking Indian rum?” Not at all.

18th over: Australia 71-3 (Smith 28, Handscomb 2)

I wouldn’t say this will be the making of Peter Handscomb, because he’ll certainly cut the mustard regardless, but what wonders it might do for his confidence if he can channel his powers of playing spin here and get Australia home. He’s been solid enough in this series without going on with it. Here he faces Ravi Jadeja, who is wearing sunglasses from the props department of Point Break.

17th over: Australia 70-3 (Smith 28, Handscomb 1)

The pressure of this contest is almost unbearable now, not that you would know it from the way Steve Smith shuffles across in front of his stumps to Yadav’s shooters. He gets an underside edge on one here, which is lucky because he would have been LBW otherwise. Some are coming through at little more than ankle height, others popping up. Australia need 118 to win this Test. What else would you rather be doing?

16th over: Australia 68-3 (Smith 27, Handscomb 0)

Jadeja is back into the attack now to replace Ashwin but I’ll be honest, all the drama in this over has been focused on replays of Marsh’s dismissal. If they’d reviewed it he would have survived! Perhaps they were fooled by how much it jagged in off the pitch, but there was daylight between the ball and off stump when it was put through ball-tracker. Deary me.

15th over: Australia 67-3 (Smith 26, Handscomb 0)

He was taken off so Jadeja could send down a speculative over of spin, but Umesh Yadav has come up trumps in his second over.

14th over: Australia 65-2 (Smith 25, S Marsh 8)

Ouch. Ashwin drops short and wide, and Smith doesn’t miss the opportunity to cash in by cutting it to the ropes. Marsh is content to push singles, and it’s sound judgement early in his innings. As they stop for drinks, Australia have eight wickets in hand and require a further 123 runs to clinch a memorable victory.

13th over: Australia 59-2 (Smith 20, S Marsh 7)

Virat Kohli saw enough of Umesh Yadav in that one over, and I don’t entirely blame him. There are not many runs to play with, so Ravindra Jadeja appears and produces a maiden first up. Funny that.

12th over: Australia 59-2 (Smith 20, S Marsh 7)

“Nine an over for 15 overs would be nice,” says Matthew Hayden, outright barracking for a minute. Sunil Gavaskar finally gets his revenge, pointing out that such an equation would still leave the tourists 15 runs short. Sunnyboy indeed. Back in the middle, Marsh faces up to the marauding Ashwin and makes an absolute mockery of the game situation, caressing a cover drive to the fence like he’s playing in the backyard. He cops a lot of stick, Marsh, but his sheer talent is surely unquestioned. Australia need 129 to win from here.

11th over: Australia 53-2 (Smith 19, S Marsh 2)

Umesh is indeed the man who comes into the attack, and has no luck to start with as a thick outside edge from Steve Smith passes through the left hand of a diving Virat Kohli at seconds slip. What would have been good: a first slip. What else would be good: if this is all over today so our nerves aren’t shredded any further. Nine off the over for Australia.

10th over: Australia 44-2 (Smith 11, S Marsh 1)

Australia, meet your saviour: erm, Shaun Marsh. Let’s be honest, he played a gem of an innings to get 66 earlier in this game, but there is also the fact he had more lives than every single cat to have appeared in a Matthew Hayden idiom.