Nice to see Siraj and Head shake hands in a friendly manner and do a mini-hug when the players went through their customary handshakes after the game. Hope that send-off from Siraj to Head does not overshadow a fine Test. Australia have made a statement of sorts after receiving a hammering at Perth. The series is set up beautifully now. India now will have to search for answers as there is not a big gap before the next Test in Brisbane. That starts on Saturday (14th) of this month. Expect another bouncy, spicy pitch there. We end things here, hope you have enjoyed our coverage of this game. We certainly did bringing it to you. Do check out all the post-match reaction and other special stuff on our site. Until next time, this is the duo of Abhinand Raghavendran and our scorer, Mukesh signing off. Bye for now.
Pat Cummins: Great week, knew we were far away from the team we want to be in Perth. This is back to how we want to play. (On his personal form) I was happy, wasn't too upset with how I bowled in Perth, felt really good this week and good to get a few wickets. Amazing, never that much noise within the group, we know what a good unit we are. Having someone like Starc, he's amazing, just does it time and time again. He's done it for over a decade now. Feel very lucky and privileged to have him in our team. (On Head) He loves batting here, again one of those momentum-shifts, the game could have gone either way when he walked out to bat but he took it straight out of their hands. The main thing was the lead, just happened that it was a pretty good time to bowl as well. seems to do a little bit more under lights. But the big thing was getting a big lead. Scotty just fitted in straightaway like as he does. Feels so lucky to have someone like him, he probes with every ball. Hopefully Josh's back next week but Scotty is unbelievable. (On Lyon bowling just 1 over in the Test) He'll jump in the ice bath, he's had a big week.
Rohit Sharma: Disappointing week for us, we didn't play well enough to win the game and Australia played better than us. There were times in the game where we could have grabbed those opportunities but we failed to do that and that cost us the game. What we did in Perth was very special, we wanted to come out here and do that again but every Test match has its own challenge. We knew it was going to be challenging with the pink ball. Like I said, Australia was better than us. We are quite looking forward to it (Gabba Test), there's not much time in between as well. We want to go out there and think about what we did right in Perth and what we did last time when we were here. Some really good memories there, hopefully we understand the challenges of every Test match. We want to start well and play well.
Teavis Head | Player of the Match: Nice to get some runs again. Moved well last week, I felt like I am in good form. Good dressing to be in. Nothing's ever guaranteed, nice momentum and now we have to move on with it. I felt like there was a good opportunity against the second new ball. Nice that it came off.
Alex Carey: A fantastic win. (starc) He is a proven champion, he's the greatest pink ball bowler. (On Head) He's found his straps in the last couple of years, he's so consistent. Marnus and Nathan set it up, Trav took the game away.
Mitchell Starc: It's been a good week. We were pretty good throughout. We weren't concerned, we left Perth in Perth, prepared the way we normally do. No secret, work hard and see how we go. We spend a lot of time together. We got the job done. We did a fair bit of good stuff in the last Test.
Stats by Deepu Narayana
Australia in DN Tests Played 13 | Won 12 | Lost 1 They have won each of the eight DN Tests at Adelaide Oval, one by an innings margin, three by 100+ runs, and three by seven-plus wickets to spare.
Most consecutive defeats for an Indian captain 6 MAK Pataudi (1967-68) 5 Sachin Tendulkar (1999-00) 4 Datta Gaekwad (1959) 4 MS Dhoni (2011) 4 MS Dhoni (2014) 4 Virat Kohli (2020-21) 4 Rohit Sharma (2024) *
16:09 Local Time, 05:39 GMT, 11:09 IST: Commanding win from Australia.
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Siraj to Khawaja, 1 run, Khawaja finishes things off. Dug in short at him, he pulls it down and beats the diving square-leg to his right. Australia level the series 1-1
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Siraj to Khawaja, no run
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Nitish Reddy to McSweeney, FOUR, to deep backward point
Ashwin has a chat with Nitish Reddy.
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Nitish Reddy to McSweeney, no run, short of length on the fifth-stump line, McSweeney goes on the back foot to tap to backward point
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