Cricket: Mohammed Siraj has sprayed Travis Head after dismissing the Australian after an impressive 140 runs.
Siraj sprays after dismissing Head | 02:30A century from hometown hero Travis Head has put Australia within range of squaring the Border-Gavaskar Trophy after Day 2 of the second Test in Adelaide.In a stunning turnaround from the first Test in Perth , India are on the ropes at 5-128 - still staring down a 29-run deficit.Former India n coach Ravi Shastri has a way with words and his assessment of Head, at least from an India n viewpoint, was word perfect on Saturday.
Then, in front of his home town and with Australia under pressure after its flop in Perth to start the series, Head delivered again to the raucous applause of a sell-out home crowd, who loved every minute of the innings.They were less pleased with Mohammed Siraj, who bowled Head with a yorker and then issued a send-off, with the feisty Indian fast bowler booed at every turn from then on by the partisan home state fans.
“To do it in front of his wife and his newborn Harrison, that was quite a moment. It is another addition to the 100 mark for Travis Head.” “He likes to score freely. And sometimes you know when you’re up against a world class attack — and certainly look at Jasprit Bumrah with his numbers, his figures, his longevity already, he’s arguably the best bowler in the world currently — but you wouldn’t know that the way that Travis has played.
“And I think when you’ve got a crowd behind you like that, where you pretty much know that everyone’s there to support you, it’s like when you have as a band, I’m sure it must be the same feeling as when you have a gig and you know that people have bought tickets just to see you. That’s must be the same feeling for Travis Head. And so I think that can only be a good thing, really.
“Thinking big picture, Australia will be able to take some sort of information away that ... if they can wait him out and lessen the damage, lighten the damage that he inflicts, though they might go a fair way to batting deeper in innings and creating a contest.” “But he’s definitely the most effective, as all fast bowlers are, with that brand new ball in his hand. So Gilly is right. If you can get yourself through that brand new ball with it, with that hard lacquer on it where it does shape around ... there’s definitely hope.“That is when you can cash in. You can put the emphasis on the older ball and you can put more pressure on Bumrah with the ball that’s 15 overs old as opposed to the brand new one.
“He just needs good luck. We saw the dismissal from the first innings in Perth where he stepped across and his head looked really still. Steve Smith is a busy cricketer. But it was that extra bit of movement he was doing walking across the crease. “A lot of opposition teams do set that plan to him, so I don’t think they would have been too surprised about it,” she said.
Pant scarcely looked convinced. Travis Head told the umpire there was a gap between the bat and ball. And the rocking and rolling of the video footage and snicko provided no proof. Harshit Rana was superb on Test debut in Perth last week, taking three wickets in the first innings as Australia suffered a horror collapse. However, the right-armed seamer has since taken 1-155 across two innings, conceding 5.38 runs per over in the South Australian capital on Saturday.While Rana has been impressive in bursts, India would have much preferred having veteran quick Shami in their starting XI.
“He played the Ranji Trophy as well as the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20s, where he looked good. His kit is also ready. We are just waiting for the approval from the NCA.” And on Saturday afternoon, vice-captain Jasprit Bumrah sent a scare through the Indian camp after pulling up sore following a delivery, needing medical attention on the field.
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