Twitter Reactions: Jasprit Bumrah's heroics keep India ahead despite second innings collapse

Cummins' hostil spell troubled the Indian batsmen in the second innings.

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The third day of the third Test in Melbourne proved to be the moving day after all that was said about the pitch in the first couple of days. A total of 15 wickets fell in the day and the final session was most intriguing given that eight of them went down during that period. Pat Cummins wrecked havoc in the Indian dressing room after the visitors decided not to enforce the follow-on following Jasprit Bumrah’s career-best figures in the longest format of the game.

The day though belonged to India despite the fact that Australia tried to comeback well with some inspired bowling from Cummins. It was all about Bumrah at the MCG. On a pitch where the Aussies toiled hard to pick seven wickets and bowled close to 170 overs, the Indian fast bowler bowled only 95 deliveries with hostility to account for six wickets.

He made the pitch look lively during his superb spells. Having said that, the first breakthrough of the day was provided by Ishant Sharma who sent back Aaron Finch and Bumrah announced his arrival. He kept the batsmen on the tenterhooks all the time and breached their defences time and again. The Aussie batsmen had no answers whatsoever and were eventually dismissed for 151, 292 runs adrift of India’s first innings total.

Bumrah ended with 6/33 to become the first Asian bowler to register five-wicket hauls in South Africa, England and Australia in the same year.

India’s shocking collapse

India decided to bat in the second innings with a mammoth lead and possibly the complacency creeped into their batsmen. The openers Mayank Agarwal and Hanuma Vihari started well but as soon as Cummins was brought into the attack, things started to happen. The leg-side trap worked for Australia dramatically as he dismissed the likes of Vihari, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane in his first two overs itself.

Moreover, Pujara and Kohli bagged ducks and were dismissed in the similar fashion even as Rohit Sharma blew away yet another chance to become a hero in the whites. 28-0 suddenly turned to 32/4 and then 44/5 as India ended the day on 54/5 with Agarwal and Rishabh Pant batting in the middle. Agarwal showed some brilliant technique during his stay and India are still ahead in the game with a lead of 346 runs.

Here’s how Twitter reacted during the course of the day:

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