{"id":14046,"date":"2020-12-29T11:45:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T06:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theleonews.com\/en\/?p=14046"},"modified":"2021-01-04T16:24:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T10:54:49","slug":"2nd-test-india-wins-boxing-day-test-beat-australia-by-8-wickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theleonews.com\/en\/2nd-test-india-wins-boxing-day-test-beat-australia-by-8-wickets\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd Test: India wins Boxing Day Test, beat Australia by 8 wickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ajinkya Rahane led Team India on Tuesday to a memorable win post the Adelaide loss to level the four-match Test series at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. With this win, Ajinkya Rahane is the second Indian skipper to record a win in each of his first three Tests as a captain after MS Dhoni. Debutant Shubman Gill\u2019s 35, skipper Ajinkya Rahane\u2019s unbeaten 27 led India to chase the needed 70 runs to win the 2nd Test with eight wickets remaining. While Mayank Agarwal scored just five and Cheteshwar Pujara managed just three runs in the second innings. Earlier, India in its first innings having bowled Australia 195\/10 (72.3 Overs) scored 326\/10 (115.1 Overs) with Captain Ajinkya Rahane slamming a century 112 which included 12 fours, powered by Ravindra Jadeja\u2019s 57 run knock and Shubman Gill\u2019s impressive 45 runs. Later Australia in its second innings scored 200\/10 (103.1 Overs).<\/p>\n<p>Coming to the bowling department, in the first Innings Bumrah, Ashwin and Siraj scalped four, three and two wickets respectively, while Jadeja took one wicket. In the second innings, Siraj was the pick of the bowlers for India having scalped three wickets as Ashwin, Jadeja and Bumrah picked up two wickets each and Umesh Yadav taking one.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What a win this is, absolutely amazing effort by the whole team. Couldn&#39;t be happier for the boys and specially Jinks who led the team to victory amazingly. Onwards and upwards from here \ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/imVkohli\/status\/1343769773683830784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To win a Test match without Virat, Rohit, Ishant &amp; Shami is a terrific achievement.<\/p>\n<p>Loved the resilience and character shown by the team to put behind the loss in the 1st Test and level the series.<\/p>\n<p>Brilliant win.<br \/>Well done TEAM INDIA! \ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffb <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AUSvIND?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AUSvIND<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/64A8Xes8NF\">pic.twitter.com\/64A8Xes8NF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sachin_rt\/status\/1343767392980230145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ajinkya Rahane led Team India on Tuesday to a memorable win post the Adelaide loss to level the four-match Test series at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. With this win, Ajinkya Rahane is the second Indian skipper to record a win in each of his first three Tests as a captain after MS Dhoni. Debutant Shubman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":14047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[337,375,388,8806,393],"tags":[8478,8473,2384,7675,8474,7666,750,381,8475,8472,8479,8481,8484,8477,8480,8483,8476,7674,8482,502],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>2nd Test: India wins Boxing Day Test, beat Australia by 8 wickets - The Leo News | English News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theleonews.com\/en\/2nd-test-india-wins-boxing-day-test-beat-australia-by-8-wickets\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2nd Test: India wins Boxing Day Test, beat Australia by 8 wickets - The Leo News | English News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ajinkya Rahane led Team India on Tuesday to a memorable win post the Adelaide loss to level the four-match Test series at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. 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