The Day 2 of the 4th Test match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) didn’t start for the Indian team as anticipated. Australian batters Steve Smith and Pat Cummins went on to develop a solid 7th wicket partnership. The Indian skipper, Rohit Sharma, failing to get a breakthrough, got more furious and visibly frustrated when an unexpected interruption took place during the first session of the second day.
Rohit Sharma shouts at the intruder who breached security to hug Virat Kohli
The incident occurred after the third bowl of the 97th over as Cummins and Smith were on the crease testing the Indian bowlers. The intruder, who was wearing a Free Ukraine T-shirt ran towards Kohli while Rohit tried to get in the middle to stop him. The intruder’s run was initially headed towards Rohit but later on, he changed his trajectory towards the former Indian captain. The MCG guards and even Rohit failed to stop the invader from reaching Kohli. The play had to be halted while security officials acted swiftly to take the intruder off the pitch. But an unplanned halt instigated the Indian skipper who shouted at the intruder once he passed through him. It is now widely speculated that the same person had also invaded the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad during the finals of the ODI World Cup between India and Australia back in 2023.
Here’s the video:
— Sunil Gavaskar (@gavaskar_theman) December 27, 2024
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Smith guides Australia to a mammoth total in the first innings
Meanwhile, the Australian batters completely dominated the morning session of the second day with Smith leading the offensive and went on to score 140 runs before getting dismissed in an unfortunate manner by Indian pacer Akash Deep. Before Smith, Cummins fell short off his half-century as Ravindra Jadeja ended a 112-run partnership for the seventh wicket. Tailender Mitchell Starc too tried to support Smith after Cummins’ dismissal but could only add 15 runs to the Australian total. With these courageous knocks, Australians scored 474 runs in their first innings of the Boxing Day Test. In response, India have lost two crucial wickets in the form of Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul up until now with Yashasvi Jaiswal and Kohli on crease.
