Adelaide. Australia's lefthanded aggressive batsman Travis Head has changed the course of matches many times with his batting. He did something similar in the first innings of the second Test of the BorderGavaskar Trophy. In this innings, Travis Head played a stormy innings of 140 runs in 141 balls in challenging conditions.
Due to Head's counter attack, Australia has gained a lead of more than 150 runs over India in the daynight test match, which can also prove to be decisive for the outcome of the match. Travis Head hit 17 fours and 4 sixes in his innings. Due to this, Australia has scored 332 runs at the loss of 8 wickets till dinner break on the second day.
Australia currently has a huge lead of 152 runs over India's first innings score of 180 runs. The role of head is very important in this. Head has also scored the fastest century so far in daynight test matches. He scored a century on 111 balls. Earlier, Head had scored a century in 112 balls against England in Hobart in the year 2022.
Travis Head has so far scored three centuries in daynight test matches. All these three centuries have been scored with a very fast strike rate. Only his compatriot Marnus Labuschagne has scored more daynight Test centuries than Head. The righthanded middle order batsman has scored centuries four times in the pink ball Test.
At the same time, if we talk about Head's record against India, his bat has worked well against Indian bowling. Head has scored 90(163), 163(174), 18(27), 11(13), 89(101) and latest score of 140(141) in the last six Test innings against India.
Talking about his career, Head has so far scored 8 centuries and 17 halfcenturies in 51 test matches. He bats with an average of 43.20 and has a fast strike rate of 66.17.
Talking about Indian bowling so far in the match, till dinner on the second day, Jasprit Bumrah has taken 4 wickets for 59 runs and Mohammad Siraj has taken 2 wickets for 95 runs. Bumrah has been excellent in this series so far. He also received the 'Player of the Match Award' in the first match. India won the first Test of the series in Perth by a huge margin of 295 runs.
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