Jasprit Bumrah's spellbinding performance and Sam Konstas' resilience highlight a captivating Boxing Day Test, showcasing the thrilling potential of the format. The match is drawing record crowds and captivating fans with its intense battles and unpredictable twists.
This was the first day of the rest of Sam Konstas ’s cricket life. The tyro opener wasn’t even trying to do anything funky when Jasprit Bumrah sheared through his half-defence. Konstas gave Bumrah something to think about in the first innings, Bumrah returned serve in the second. That’s Test cricket.
Fans are lapping this up. With a good and possibly epic day to come , the aggregate is already nearly 300,000, a Boxing Day Test record, harking back in sepia to a time when there was cricket but only cricket for the public’s delectation. The Indian diaspora makes up half, of course, but that’s to celebrate, for assuredly they will be back.
On Sunday, on the same pitch, there were hours when the ball did not look like hitting the bat, though Australia’s top order were the occupants.Australia, the world, might not have seen a fast bowling exponent quite like Bumrah. Bumrah at times made the other Australians look like park players, beating them two balls in every three and sometimes crowding the estimable Usman Khawaja as if he were a number 11.There is the butterfly effect by which the game often turns on the slightest contingency, barely noticed at the time. Australia needed runs and Steve Smith had the right idea when he thrashed at one wide and full from Siraj and was caught behind.
Australia has its form and fitness woes, but the 18 extra overs last-wicket pair Nathan Lyon and Scott Boland forced India to bowl will have extracted their pound of flesh. India needed wickets, desperately, but could not afford to barter away runs. It was and is 1-1, remember. As in a hung parliament, everything became a negotiation.
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