Boxing Day Test LIVE updates: Pant survives early review, smashes Cummins for four as day three begins
Tea was due on day two of the Boxing Day Test and the contest was at an absorbing pass.
Australia spent the first half of the day making hay while the sun shone from a cloudless sky. On a pitch that had quickened up to a nicety overnight, there was plenty to make.
Pat Cummins of Australia celebrates the wicket of KL Rahul of IndiaCredit: Getty Images
Steve Smith wound back the years as he wound up his arms, scattering the ball to all parts. He does not so much hook sixes as cast them over fine leg like a fly fisherman. This was his fifth MCG hundred; he loves the place like he loves his mum and his bat in no particular order.
Pat Cummins, playing a mix of conventional and Konstas cricket, had matched him blow for robust blow in a century stand that gave Australia the running in this match. Cummins in such a vein divides sentiment, between appreciation for what he can do and mystification about why hasn’t done it more often. But he doesn’t often get this batting conditions as blissful as this. He reaped.
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