India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: How do you deal with trouble. Well if you are Jaiswal, you walk right up to it. He was lucky to not be dismissed first ball of the fifth over, a loose waft outside off that misses his edge.

Jaiswal is on 18 off 34 balls, Rahul is on 13 off 21 balls. The pair have gotten India off to a fairly fluent start here and have shown further that these are good batting conditions.

India 35/1 in 10 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: We saw this quite a bit with the Indian bowlers and now it is happening with the big Aussie quicks as well.

Cummins goes for a half-volley to Rahul fifth ball, it is driven right back down the ground for a four. Then he draws Rahul forward and induces the outside edge but the ball falls just short of third slip. This has been a good start for India, barring that dismissal of Rohit Sharma. Rahul on 13 off 20, Jaiswal on 17 off 23.

India 34/1 in 8 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Cummins goes a little full first ball of his fourth over and Jaiswal doesn't waste it. He meets it with the full face of the bat and the ball rolls along between the bowler and mid-on for four.

Pure timing there. Jaiswal moves to 16 off 21.

India 29/1 in 7.1 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: How do you deal with trouble. Well if you are Jaiswal, you walk right up to it. He was lucky to not be dismissed first ball of the fifth over, a loose waft outside off that misses his edge. Jaiswal runs two off the fifth ball. He is on 12 off 18 balls at the end of that over, Rahul yet to get off the mark in seven balls.

India 16/1 in 5 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Cummins switches to over the wicket for Jaiswal in his second over.

The first ball is defended to mid-off, the second is left. Cummins goes short third ball and angles it across Jaiswal, the opener uses the pace and ramps it over the slips for four. He takes a single next ball and Rahul survives an LBW appeal last ball.

India 14/1 in 4 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Not unless he would want to sit down and work on what is going wrong for him. At the moment though, if what he is saying is to be believed, the senior Indian batters don't seem to be interested in introspecting and making changes to their technique.

It is something that has given them success over the years and so they are sticking to it despite it not giving them anything for a while now.

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Well that is quite disappointing from the Indian captain. Cummins shares the new ball, last delivery of the second over is short of a length on off. Rohit goes for the pull out of instinct but it isn't high enough for that, seems to realise that and not go through with the shot and ends up just spooning it to mid-on. That is an ugly, ugly dismissal for Rohit, he continues to look completely unprepared and rusty in this tour.

Rohit Sharma c Boland b Cummins 3 (5)

India 8/1 in 2 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Jaiswal caught pushing the ball a couple of times. He was given an absolute peach to deal with fourth ball, full at off late swing away, Australia enquire half-heartedly for caught behind.

Jaiswal gets two runs, Rohit yet to get off the mark.

India 3/0 in 1 over

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Right, it is confirmed at last, Rohit is opening with Jaiswal. Mitchell Starc as the ball in his hands. India start out trailing by 474 runs.

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: It is Bumrah or nothing for this Indian bowling attack. He comes back and takes just four balls to end this last wicket stand. Nathan Lyon reviews and walks as umpire Joel Wilson gives him out LBW. Bumrah also doesn't bother hanging around, they are all walking off but wait a second, the ball does look fairly high on contact with the pad. Ball tracking only holds up the umpire's call.

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Well this must be beyond frustrating for India. They would've hoped to not have Bumrah back in the attack with Australia down to their last wicket but Nathan Lyon and Scott Boland have stayed in there and in fact looked quite unperturbed.

Australia 472/9 in 122 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Big cheers on both occasions as the home favourite reverses decisions from both umpires. Jadeja first appeals for LBW and it is Michael Gough who gives it out. He never gets anything wrong but this time he did, Boland had got some bat on it. Another LBW appeal next over from Siraj which Joel Wilson gives, Boland reviews again and this time, it is missing leg stump. Boland and Lyon both on five runs.

Australia 465/9 in 119 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Oh what are the chances of that happening! Akash Deep comes from the other end, Smith charges down the track first ball to flay it off side. It takes his inside edge, ricochets off his pads and trickles in agonising slow motion for the batter towards the stumps. It would've taken something extraordinary for Smith to fall and there you have it. But he is back all right and that is terrible news for the Indians.

Smith b Akash Deep 140 (197)

Australia 455/9 in 114.1 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Starc doesn't last a delivery in the second session. The first ball he faces from Jadeja fizzes past his outside edge and takes the off stump.

Starc b Jadeja 15 (36)

Australia 455/8 in 113.3 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: All right Ravindra Jadeja to bowl the first over of the second session. Steve Smith on strike on 139 off 194 balls, Mitch Starc on 15 off 35.

Australia 454/7 in 113 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Steve Smith's career tally currently stands at 9948 Test runs at an average of 56.85 in 113 matches. He is thus 52 runs away from becoming the fourth Australian after Ricky Ponting, Allan Border and Steve Waugh to get to 10,000 runs in Test cricket.

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: India are wearing black armbands today as a tribute to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who died aged 92 on Thursday, December 26. Singh was admitted to New Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences late Thursday after his health deteriorated due to a "sudden loss of consciousness at home," the hospital said in a statement.

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Irfan Pathan says that this is a very good batting pitch now. It means that while Australia have piled tons of runs, India have a chance to do well if they get themselves in with the bat. He says that India need to show more trust to their spinners. Puzzling they haven't done that despite bringing in an extra spinner.

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Well, to be more accurate, Smith holds the record for most Test centuries against India FOR NOW. This was his 11th Test ton and the man he overtook was Joe Root who has 10. Surely, surely Root is going to add at least one more century to that tally when India travel England in mid-2025. If India are going to perform and line up in England the way they have done in this series, Root might just put himself well beyond Smith on that tour.

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: The only period when India looked consistently threatening today was when Bumrah beat Smith with every ball of his second over. Smith responded by almost goading Bumrah to keep going in his own inimitable way. Inimitable unless you are Marnus Labuschagne, of course.

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: India seemed to have got their tactics spot on in their last two tours of Australia, even when they were depleted in 2020/21 - play as many frontline strike bowlers as possible. In this Test, they have six bowling options but only three are frontline seamers. To make matters worse, only one of those seem to be capable of getting wickets. Their brittle top order has led to India playing Jadeja, Sundar and Reddy, three all-rounders who are just not dependable wicket-takers in these conditions. They are not the players who should be expected to score the bulk of runs either. India have created an illusion of a net here for their misfiring top order and they themselves seem to have been caught in it.

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Smith sees off Bumrah in the 113th over and the umpire calls for Lunch. The former Australian captain walks off on 139 off 194 balls, Mitchell Starc at the other end on 15 off 35 balls. Smith's strike rate was ticking around 55 at the start of the day. It has gone up to 71.64 now.

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Starc defends the first ball to mid-on, the second is sent clean as a whistle over long on for a six by Starc. Bumrah responds with two bouncers, Starc gets under both and the two great bowlers exchange smiles after the second one. Bumrah sends in another bouncer, this time on off stump fifth ball, Starc gets underneath it again. Then he attempts a yorker last ball but doesn't quite get it full enough, Starc drills it down to the bowler. Starc on 12 off 27, Smith on 134 off 190, the partnership between the pair has already reached 35 off 41 balls.

Australia 446/7 in 111 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Jasprit Bumrah is back, about 12 minutes to go for Lunch. Mitchell Starc is on strike, he has scored six in 21 balls, Smith at the other end on 134 off 190.

Australia 440/7 in 110 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Starc gets off strike second ball of the next over from Jadeja easily. No pressure whatsoever from the Indians. Smith then just meets the third ball inside out between deep cover and long off. Reddy seemed to have done well to stop it at the boundary but replays show that it is a boundary. Two singles off the next two balls, Smith doesn't even bother farming the strike. Australia doing whatever they please and it really does look like the game is already over for India.

Smith is on 134 off 189, Starc on five off 16.

Australia 439/7 in 109 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Washington Sundar brought in to replace Siraj who has looked absolutely ragged towards the end of that spell. Sundar starts with a length delivery, Smith comes forward and laps it almost effortlessly fine over his shoulder for four. He gets off strike next ball and Starc takes a single off the last. Smith is on 129 off 186, Starc on three off 13.

Australia 432/7 in 108 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: It is a good catch from Reddy and Jadeja gets the breakthrough for India.

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: This is going to get very ugly indeed for India. Smith reads Siraj like a book now, sees the short ball coming fourth delivery of the over from a mile away, he hooks it over fine leg for six. He then makes some room for the fifth ball and sends it past extra cover for a four. Siraj stops Smith from running a single last ball. Smith is on 116 off 175, Cummins to face Jadeja on 49 off 62 balls.

Australia 411/6 in 104 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Five singles off that over from Jadeja, the last of which brings up the century stand in just 128 balls between Smith and Cummins. Cummins is now just two runs away from a well constructed half-century, he has played just 60 balls. Smith at the other end on 106 off 172. Siraj continues from the other end. India have nothing left now.

Australia 399/6 in 103 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Well Rohit seems to have prioritised saving runs over getting wickets which is just incredible considering this is a seventh-wicket partnership. Cummins has picked up two fours off Siraj as he reads the Indian pacer like a book. To make matters worse, the sixth ball goes for five wides as well. Cummins is on 46 off 57, Smith on 103 off 169.

Australia 394/6 in 102 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Just the most glorious cover drive from Smith to bring up his 34th Test century. The MCG stands up and applauds the great man. Smith runs two off the fifth ball of Reddy's over in the 101st to get to 99. Rohit brings the field up but it doesn't matter. Reddy goes full and provides some width, Smith meets it with the perfect cover drive and raises 'em. He is on 103 off 167, Cummins on 37 off 53.

Australia 379/6 in 101 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Well India were behind at drinks on the first session on Day 1 but that is nothing compared to where they are today. Smith and Cummins have looked almost entirely unperturbed and India didn't help their cause by starting off with some utterly lazy fielding. They also started with a lot of balls outside off, allowing the batters to leave and get their eyes in. It is a long way back for India to even challenge Australia in this Test now.

Smith on 96 off 163, Cummins on 36 off 51.

Australia 371/6 in 100 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Nitish Kumar Reddy is into the attack now. Bumrah's spell is done, he was looking as tired as a bowler can be at the end of his last over and still, he has looked the most potent of India's pacers. The visitors have been utterly listless thus far today. Let alone a wicket, they have hardly been able to produce any chances at a wicket. Whatever chances may have come arguably came in Bumrah's second over of the day to Smith. Siraj starts off with a maiden.

Australia 365/6 in 98 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Four dot ball in the 97th over, Bumrah's 26th, and Smith then goes after a very good bouncer, sends it sailing over fine leg with a hook shot for a six. Smith moves to 92 off 106 at the end of that over, Cummins on 34 off 40. The partnership has raced to 66 off 93 now.

Siraj now returns after bowling just one over at the start of the day. Wonder if India missed a trick by giving Akash Deep the new ball instead of him.

Australia 365/6 in 97 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Sunil Gavaskar has absolutely savaged India's fielding and Akash Deep's bowling here. Deep starts off with a short ball straight at Smith, the batter tucks it fine for a four. Two off the next ball and that brings up the fifty-run stand and then a single. Cummins then gives himself space and sends the fourth ball over slips for a four. Then he smashes the last ball through covers for four. This is bruising for India. Cummins on 34 off 40 balls. Smith on 86 off 150 balls.

Australia 359/6 in 96 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Some more short stuff from India in the last two overs. India clearly looking to keep Cummins facing Bumrah. India for some reason have gone back to not attacking the stumps, they kept Australia down in the second session and reaped wickets in the third doing that. For some reason, they have been trying to draw the edge again and the batters have left or driven with ease.

Australia 342/6 in 94 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Well while Smith has been rather quiet at one end, Cummins has raced to 25 off 28 at the other. The partnership has swollen to 43 off 64 balls. Unless there is a big collapse here from Australia, it is fair to say that they have won this first hour already and India are in heaps of trouble now.

Australia 342/6 in 92 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Oh, Smith's idiosyncrasies are coming out now as Bumrah beats him repeatedly. He starts the 91st over full outside off, Smith leaves it alone. The second is the same and Smith leaves that as well. Bumrah then shortens the length third ball, it beats the shoulder of Smith's bat. It looks like Smith was caught behind off the fourth ball but the ball had in fact beaten the edge and taken his thigh pad. Bumrah beats Smith again fifth ball and then Smith whips his bat out of the line for a trademark leave. "Bowled Jassi!" he shouts as he does so.

Australia 332/6 in 91 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Cummins gets off strike first ball and then Smith absorbs the next four balls. Bumrah then induces a thick edge last ball, the ball goes between slip and gully for a four. Smith moves to 74 off 126, Cummins on 16 off 20.

Australia 325/6 in 89 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Wonder what this is all about but Bumrah has replaced Siraj after the latter bowled just one over. He will be bowling to Cummins. Akash Deep bowls a maiden first up, Smith is on 70 off 121, Cummins on 15 off 19.

Australia 320/6 in 88 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Smith gets off strike first ball and then Siraj goes full outside off to Cummins. The Aussie captain sends that past backward point for four with some incredible timing. A misfield at square leg next ball allows the batters to run three and then Smith runs another off the last ball. Akash Deep to bowl from the other end.

Australia 320/6 in 87 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: All right here we go then. Few notes from the Indian huddle before warm-up, Rohit Sharma spoke for some time and then Virat Kohli spoke for a LONG time. Siraj being booed as he charges in, Kohli copped some boos as well. Smith is on strike...

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: All right we are minutes away from the start of the second day so let's look at how the match stands at the start of Day 2. Australia start the day on 311/6 in 86 overs. Steve Smith is batting on 68 off 111 balls while captain Pat Cummins is at the other end on eight off 17.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 2: The door seemed to be firmly shut on India. Marnus Labuschagne and Steve Smith, the identical maestros of Australian batting, were scoring and defending and leaving at will and India looked as bereft of ideas as they did in the first session when Sam Konstas went berzerk. And then, Labuschagne decided to clobber Washington Sundar first ball after the drinks break and ended up finding Virat Kohli at mid-off. Rohit Sharma immediately brought back Jasprit Bumrah and the pace spearhead staged his reposte to the hiding he got from Konstas earlier in the day. He sent back Travis Head for a duck and then dismissed the faltering Mitch Marsh in his next over. Alex Carey then blasted a half-century stand with Smith before falling to a snorter from Akash Deep.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 2: It was supposed to be a sweltering hot day yesterday but instead, what we got was overcast conditions and fairly amiable temperatures. Similar scenes today at the 'G. It means it is a good day to bowl but at the same time, the conditions are expected to ease up for the batters.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 2: He has been the scourge of this Indian attack with his rapid scoring but on Boxing Day, Travis Head was actually bowled shouldering arms by Jasprit Bumrah. He scored centuries in the last two Test matches, here he was gone for a seven-ball duck.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 2: Probably just as damaging as Konstas's innings for India was Steve Smith just going through the gears at will in the second half of the day. He put up a partnership of 83 runs off 127 balls with Marnus Labuschagne, after the first and second wicket partnerships producing 89 and 65 runs respectively. Then India thought that they have a chance at making a big comeback after Bumrah knocked off Labuschagne, Travis Head and Mitchell Marsh. But Smith and Alex Carey poured some cold water on that by smashing 53 runs off 80 balls for the sixth wicket. All of this was powered by Smith just pacing his innings to perfection.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 2: While Konstas was blasting Bumrah and Siraj everywhere, Akash Deep was going about his work quietly after coming on as first change and it is him who first started plugging up the runs in the first session. In the second, he was crucial to India ensuring that Australia scored just over 60 runs. However, luck eluded the pacer in terms of wickets. Akash Deep beat he batter 20 times on Day 1. Finally, he got a wicket in the form of Alex Carey with an absolute snorter of a delivery, pitching short of a length and shaping away late to take the batter's outside edge.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 2: Great players love the big stage and Steve Smith is no different. And there are few bigger stages in Australian cricket than the first day of the Boxing Day Test at the 'G. Smith's stats on this particular occasion? 346 runs in eight innings at an average of 115.33. Yeah, he is good.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 2: So extraordinary was Konstas' debut that it has somewhat overshadowed what was a very good team performance from Australia yesterday. There is no doubt, though, that Konstas's innings has set the tone for Australia and India's biggest proble at the start of Day 2 will be to dismiss Steve Smith, who seems to have got into that zone from where he becomes impossible to dismiss. Smith starts Day 2 batting on 68 off 111 balls. He has hit five fours and one gorgeous six that can be seen above off Mohammed Siraj.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 2: A young batter was playing better than anyone expected and the veterans in the bowling side did everything in their power to throw him off his game. This is what happened when Konstas was going berzerk yesterday, with the likes of Kohli, Siraj, Bumrah and others giving him some chirp at varying degrees. Incidentally, that was also something that Kohli faced back in 2012 during his first Test tour of Australia. Moreover, Konstas almost echoed what he said back in 2014 about the atmosphere in the middle getting heated. "It got heated at times which was good for me. Feel like that it gets the best out of me," he said.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 2: Konstas knew exactly who it is that he was scooping for fours and sixes and what it was that he was doing. He described his batting with Bumrah in just the most apt way. "He is a legend of the game so I was trying to put a bit of pressure on him and it paid off today. Obviously he took three wickets and he changed the momentum (later in the day). It was all about trying to throw him off his lines," he said in the post-day press conference.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 2: Among the many incident that will contribute to the legend of Sam Konstas' debut is the fact that he gave an on-field interview to the spider-cam DURING his innings. In that, he refused to talk about the Kohli shoulder barge, effectively saying what happens on the field stays on it. He then said that he hopes Jasprit Bumrah comes back on so that he can try some more of his scoops on the bowler who has tormented his countryment all summer.

This is what Konstas had to say about the Kohli incident after the day's play though: "I was just doing my gloves and I think he accidentally bumped me. I think that's just cricket, the tension."

India vs Australia LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 2: When Ravi Shastri asked Rohit Sharma whether he will be opening in this match, the Indian captain answered in the affirmative. But then the team sheet showed just a couple of minutes later that Rohit was in at No.3. That sheet was updated during the first session and later showed Rohit as opening the innings after all. At the end of the day's play, India assistant coach Abhishek Nayar said that Rohit will "more likely than not" open the innings. And that, folks, is how you complicate an answer to a simple question.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 2: Australia took a gamble by replacing Nathan McSweeney at the top of the order with Sam Konstas. They knew it is a call that will attract all kinds of criticism. Konstas responded by taking a few gambles of his own. He knew he would look like a complete fool if he was out trying to ramp the new ball bowled by Jasprit Bumrah. Both those gambles paid off, and the one made by Konstas is especially impressive considering it is him who was in the middle with a record MCG crowd watching him and 11 Indian players breathing down his neck. Whether he was lucky with his gamble or not, the fact remains that everything he did was rooted in a sense of bravery that cannot possibly be limited to the fact that he is just 19 years old. It looks like Australia may have found another David Warner here.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 2: Perhaps Kohli's shoulder-barging Konstas and then looking at him like it was all his fault best summarises just how much India was thrown off their game by the 19-year-old debutant opener. The confrontation, which stemmed from a fiery exchange of words following a heated moment, was halted after timely intervention from Australian opener Usman Khawaja and the on-field umpires. Kohli has now been docked 20 per cent of his match fees and handed one demerit point

India vs Australia LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 2: India's playing eleven continues to be a topic of discussion. In the first Test, they were missing Shubman Gill. In this one they have dropped him, instead going for spin-bowling all-rounder Washington Sundar. This is despite the pitch being traditionally seam-friendly, which means India have chosen to shore up their batting instead of strengthening their bowling. The last time India went for tactics consistently was when MS Dhoni was captain and the team didn't fare too well away from home in Tests at the time.

India XI: Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma(c), Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant(w), Ravindra Jadeja, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep

India vs Australia LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 2: A debutant threw India off their well laid plans, a veteran got fined for a rather hare-brained attempt at intimidating him, a veteran opener finally managed to get going in an innings where he reaped the rewards of his early patience while a pace spearhead got back his after being taken town early on. All of this happened in a single day's cricket. Boxing Day lived up to its expectations and if that is any indication, the same could happen for the rest of the match. Welcome to Day 2 of the 4th Test at the MCG.