Nothing epitomised the scale of Australia’s batting bungle quite like the sight of Marnus Labuschagne bowling bouncers.
If Jasprit Bumrah’s opening-day demolition of Australia’s batting brought the sublime to this Test match, then the sight of Marnus Labuschagne trying to bounce out India’s openers, before tea on day two, was the ridiculous.
Close observers of Bumrah’s quality have long sensed that purely trying to survive will not get the job done, and Labuschagne’s attempt to mimic Cheteshwar Pujara ended only in disappointment. He must find a way to impose more pressure next time, or risk becoming a stationary target the selectors may have to dispense with.
Australian debriefs on the first evening now look likely to have to stretch over several days, because the Optus Stadium surface settled down markedly on day two. First it allowed Mitchell Starc to linger at the crease until the lunch break, allowing the tally to crawl past three figures.Then, when Cummins and company needed to find a burst of similar dimensions to Bumrah, their offerings were defused with aplomb by the opening combination of K.L. Rahul and Yashasvi Jaiswal.
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