India vs Australia Highlights, 4th Test Day 2: Jaiswal, Kohli's dismissals hurt IND as Boland shines late; end at 164/5

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Nitish Kumar Reddy is into the attack now. Bumrah's spell is done, he was looking as tired as a bowler can be at the end of his last over and still, he has looked the most potent of India's pacers. The visitors have been utterly listless thus far today. Let alone a wicket, they have hardly been able to produce any chances at a wicket. Whatever chances may have come arguably came in Bumrah's second over of the day to Smith. Siraj starts off with a maiden.

Australia 365/6 in 98 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Four dot ball in the 97th over, Bumrah's 26th, and Smith then goes after a very good bouncer, sends it sailing over fine leg with a hook shot for a six. Smith moves to 92 off 106 at the end of that over, Cummins on 34 off 40. The partnership has raced to 66 off 93 now.

Siraj now returns after bowling just one over at the start of the day. Wonder if India missed a trick by giving Akash Deep the new ball instead of him.

Australia 365/6 in 97 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Sunil Gavaskar has absolutely savaged India's fielding and Akash Deep's bowling here. Deep starts off with a short ball straight at Smith, the batter tucks it fine for a four. Two off the next ball and that brings up the fifty-run stand and then a single. Cummins then gives himself space and sends the fourth ball over slips for a four. Then he smashes the last ball through covers for four. This is bruising for India. Cummins on 34 off 40 balls. Smith on 86 off 150 balls.

Australia 359/6 in 96 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Some more short stuff from India in the last two overs. India clearly looking to keep Cummins facing Bumrah. India for some reason have gone back to not attacking the stumps, they kept Australia down in the second session and reaped wickets in the third doing that. For some reason, they have been trying to draw the edge again and the batters have left or driven with ease.

Australia 342/6 in 94 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Well while Smith has been rather quiet at one end, Cummins has raced to 25 off 28 at the other. The partnership has swollen to 43 off 64 balls. Unless there is a big collapse here from Australia, it is fair to say that they have won this first hour already and India are in heaps of trouble now.

Australia 342/6 in 92 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Oh, Smith's idiosyncrasies are coming out now as Bumrah beats him repeatedly. He starts the 91st over full outside off, Smith leaves it alone. The second is the same and Smith leaves that as well. Bumrah then shortens the length third ball, it beats the shoulder of Smith's bat. It looks like Smith was caught behind off the fourth ball but the ball had in fact beaten the edge and taken his thigh pad. Bumrah beats Smith again fifth ball and then Smith whips his bat out of the line for a trademark leave. "Bowled Jassi!" he shouts as he does so.

Australia 332/6 in 91 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Cummins gets off strike first ball and then Smith absorbs the next four balls. Bumrah then induces a thick edge last ball, the ball goes between slip and gully for a four. Smith moves to 74 off 126, Cummins on 16 off 20.

Australia 325/6 in 89 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Wonder what this is all about but Bumrah has replaced Siraj after the latter bowled just one over. He will be bowling to Cummins. Akash Deep bowls a maiden first up, Smith is on 70 off 121, Cummins on 15 off 19.

Australia 320/6 in 88 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: Smith gets off strike first ball and then Siraj goes full outside off to Cummins. The Aussie captain sends that past backward point for four with some incredible timing. A misfield at square leg next ball allows the batters to run three and then Smith runs another off the last ball. Akash Deep to bowl from the other end.

Australia 320/6 in 87 overs

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: All right here we go then. Few notes from the Indian huddle before warm-up, Rohit Sharma spoke for some time and then Virat Kohli spoke for a LONG time. Siraj being booed as he charges in, Kohli copped some boos as well. Smith is on strike...

India vs Australia 4th Test Day 2 Live Score: All right we are minutes away from the start of the second day so let's look at how the match stands at the start of Day 2. Australia start the day on 311/6 in 86 overs. Steve Smith is batting on 68 off 111 balls while captain Pat Cummins is at the other end on eight off 17.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 2: The door seemed to be firmly shut on India. Marnus Labuschagne and Steve Smith, the identical maestros of Australian batting, were scoring and defending and leaving at will and India looked as bereft of ideas as they did in the first session when Sam Konstas went berzerk. And then, Labuschagne decided to clobber Washington Sundar first ball after the drinks break and ended up finding Virat Kohli at mid-off. Rohit Sharma immediately brought back Jasprit Bumrah and the pace spearhead staged his reposte to the hiding he got from Konstas earlier in the day. He sent back Travis Head for a duck and then dismissed the faltering Mitch Marsh in his next over. Alex Carey then blasted a half-century stand with Smith before falling to a snorter from Akash Deep.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 2: It was supposed to be a sweltering hot day yesterday but instead, what we got was overcast conditions and fairly amiable temperatures. Similar scenes today at the 'G. It means it is a good day to bowl but at the same time, the conditions are expected to ease up for the batters.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 2: He has been the scourge of this Indian attack with his rapid scoring but on Boxing Day, Travis Head was actually bowled shouldering arms by Jasprit Bumrah. He scored centuries in the last two Test matches, here he was gone for a seven-ball duck.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 2: Probably just as damaging as Konstas's innings for India was Steve Smith just going through the gears at will in the second half of the day. He put up a partnership of 83 runs off 127 balls with Marnus Labuschagne, after the first and second wicket partnerships producing 89 and 65 runs respectively. Then India thought that they have a chance at making a big comeback after Bumrah knocked off Labuschagne, Travis Head and Mitchell Marsh. But Smith and Alex Carey poured some cold water on that by smashing 53 runs off 80 balls for the sixth wicket. All of this was powered by Smith just pacing his innings to perfection.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 2: While Konstas was blasting Bumrah and Siraj everywhere, Akash Deep was going about his work quietly after coming on as first change and it is him who first started plugging up the runs in the first session. In the second, he was crucial to India ensuring that Australia scored just over 60 runs. However, luck eluded the pacer in terms of wickets. Akash Deep beat he batter 20 times on Day 1. Finally, he got a wicket in the form of Alex Carey with an absolute snorter of a delivery, pitching short of a length and shaping away late to take the batter's outside edge.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 2: Great players love the big stage and Steve Smith is no different. And there are few bigger stages in Australian cricket than the first day of the Boxing Day Test at the 'G. Smith's stats on this particular occasion? 346 runs in eight innings at an average of 115.33. Yeah, he is good.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 2: So extraordinary was Konstas' debut that it has somewhat overshadowed what was a very good team performance from Australia yesterday. There is no doubt, though, that Konstas's innings has set the tone for Australia and India's biggest proble at the start of Day 2 will be to dismiss Steve Smith, who seems to have got into that zone from where he becomes impossible to dismiss. Smith starts Day 2 batting on 68 off 111 balls. He has hit five fours and one gorgeous six that can be seen above off Mohammed Siraj.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 2: A young batter was playing better than anyone expected and the veterans in the bowling side did everything in their power to throw him off his game. This is what happened when Konstas was going berzerk yesterday, with the likes of Kohli, Siraj, Bumrah and others giving him some chirp at varying degrees. Incidentally, that was also something that Kohli faced back in 2012 during his first Test tour of Australia. Moreover, Konstas almost echoed what he said back in 2014 about the atmosphere in the middle getting heated. "It got heated at times which was good for me. Feel like that it gets the best out of me," he said.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 2: Konstas knew exactly who it is that he was scooping for fours and sixes and what it was that he was doing. He described his batting with Bumrah in just the most apt way. “He is a legend of the game so I was trying to put a bit of pressure on him and it paid off today. Obviously he took three wickets and he changed the momentum (later in the day). It was all about trying to throw him off his lines,” he said in the post-day press conference.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 2: Among the many incident that will contribute to the legend of Sam Konstas' debut is the fact that he gave an on-field interview to the spider-cam DURING his innings. In that, he refused to talk about the Kohli shoulder barge, effectively saying what happens on the field stays on it. He then said that he hopes Jasprit Bumrah comes back on so that he can try some more of his scoops on the bowler who has tormented his countryment all summer.

This is what Konstas had to say about the Kohli incident after the day's play though: “I was just doing my gloves and I think he accidentally bumped me. I think that's just cricket, the tension.”

India vs Australia LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 2: When Ravi Shastri asked Rohit Sharma whether he will be opening in this match, the Indian captain answered in the affirmative. But then the team sheet showed just a couple of minutes later that Rohit was in at No.3. That sheet was updated during the first session and later showed Rohit as opening the innings after all. At the end of the day's play, India assistant coach Abhishek Nayar said that Rohit will "more likely than not" open the innings. And that, folks, is how you complicate an answer to a simple question.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 2: Australia took a gamble by replacing Nathan McSweeney at the top of the order with Sam Konstas. They knew it is a call that will attract all kinds of criticism. Konstas responded by taking a few gambles of his own. He knew he would look like a complete fool if he was out trying to ramp the new ball bowled by Jasprit Bumrah. Both those gambles paid off, and the one made by Konstas is especially impressive considering it is him who was in the middle with a record MCG crowd watching him and 11 Indian players breathing down his neck. Whether he was lucky with his gamble or not, the fact remains that everything he did was rooted in a sense of bravery that cannot possibly be limited to the fact that he is just 19 years old. It looks like Australia may have found another David Warner here.

India vs Australia LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 2: Perhaps Kohli's shoulder-barging Konstas and then looking at him like it was all his fault best summarises just how much India was thrown off their game by the 19-year-old debutant opener. The confrontation, which stemmed from a fiery exchange of words following a heated moment, was halted after timely intervention from Australian opener Usman Khawaja and the on-field umpires. Kohli has now been docked 20 per cent of his match fees and handed one demerit point

India vs Australia LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 2: India's playing eleven continues to be a topic of discussion. In the first Test, they were missing Shubman Gill. In this one they have dropped him, instead going for spin-bowling all-rounder Washington Sundar. This is despite the pitch being traditionally seam-friendly, which means India have chosen to shore up their batting instead of strengthening their bowling. The last time India went for tactics consistently was when MS Dhoni was captain and the team didn't fare too well away from home in Tests at the time.

India XI: Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma(c), Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant(w), Ravindra Jadeja, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep

India vs Australia LIVE Score, 4th Test Day 2: A debutant threw India off their well laid plans, a veteran got fined for a rather hare-brained attempt at intimidating him, a veteran opener finally managed to get going in an innings where he reaped the rewards of his early patience while a pace spearhead got back his after being taken town early on. All of this happened in a single day's cricket. Boxing Day lived up to its expectations and if that is any indication, the same could happen for the rest of the match. Welcome to Day 2 of the 4th Test at the MCG.