Australia 337 (Head 140, Labuschagne 64, Bumrah 4-61, Siraj 4-98) and 19 for 0 beats India 180 (Reddy 42, Starc 6-48, Cummins 2-41) and 175 (Reddy 42, Cummins 5-57, Boland 3-51) for ten wickets
Australia, however, did not need Head with the bat in their second innings as Khawaja and McSweeney provided the finishing touches.
Cummins, who did not look sharp enough on the ball in the first test, returned to his best in the second. Having hit the top of Rohit’s stump with the new pink ball under the lights on Saturday, Cummins dragged his lengths even further back with the older ball, which didn’t swing or close as much under natural light. He had Ashwin gloved behind and Rana catching a gully with a nastier bouncer.
Reddy took on Cummins and hit a throat-high lifter over square leg for six, despite there being two men on the leg-side boundary. But when Cummins put one in front of him off the next ball of the wicket, Reddy brought it straight up to third.
Adelaide’s 33,184 spectators had further reason to rejoice when their adopted son McSweeney beat a pair of fours in the close chase and then when their favorite son Head took the Player of the Match award.
