By Admin 
On the second day of the ICC World Test Championship Final, Australia maintained their dominance, first Pat Cummins created history with 6 wickets. After this, when Australia’s second innings was shattered, Alex Carrie shared a 61 -run partnership with Mitchell Starc and brought his team into a strong position. Shortly before the end of the day’s play, Marco Jansen left an easy catch of Stark. Australia currently has a lead of 218 runs. Know what happened on the second day.
5 wickets fell under 12 runs
The first wicket of the day fell as Tempa Bavuma, he played an important innings of 36 runs. Pat Cummins made him his victim. David Bedingham scored the highest innings of 45 runs for South Africa. South Africa’s last 5 wickets fell within 12 runs. Africa had 5 wickets for 126 runs and the entire team collapsed for 138 runs.
Pat Cummins created history
Cummins took 6 wickets for 28 runs in a spell of 18.1 overs. He made a record in his name, he has jointly become the second bowler to take the highest 5 wicket hall in Tests. He has done this 9 times. Cummins also completed his 300 Test wickets during this period. He became the 8th Australian bowler to do so.
Australia scattered in second innings
Australia’s second innings deteriorated. The first wicket fell as Usman Khwaja (6) at 28, he was hunted by Kagiso Rabada. After this, Australia lost 7 wickets for 73 runs. Cameron Green was dismissed for zero, Steve Smith was run by Lungi Angidi on a score of 13. The first innings hero BU webster was dismissed by 9 runs. Travis Head also moved on a score of 9.
Alexi Carrie’s innings leads Australia 218 runs
It seemed that Australia would pile within 100 in the second innings, but Alex Carrie and Mitchell Starc saved Australia by a 61 -run partnership. Both added 61 runs for the eighth wicket. Shortly before the end of the day’s play, Carrie was lbw by Rabada, she played an important innings of 43 runs. Stark is unbeaten on 16 runs. By the end of the second day’s play, Australia’s score is 144/8.
In the second innings, Kagiso Rabada and Lungi Enggidi have taken 3-3 wickets. Marco Jansen and Vian Mulder got 1-1 wickets. Now the pitch has slowed down, it showed that the ball is not getting much bounce. Many times it happened when the batsmen wanted to play the shot and the ball went to the slip with the edge but could not reach the fielder. While the fielders of the slip stood very close. South African bowlers would like to take the remaining 2 wickets as soon as possible on the second day.