Day two MCG Boxing Day scores, results, time, schedule, entertainment, tips, odds, how to watch

The day after one play at the top of the order paid off spectacularly, another turned out to be a catastrophic failure.

India lost their first wicket cheaply in the Boxing Day Test when captain Rohit Sharma, pressed for space, drove his pull shot from Pat Cummins to Scott Boland at mid-wicket.

It continued Rohit’s poor run of form in the Border-Gavaskar series. After missing the first Test for family reasons, he has not scored more than 10 in four innings and was bundled out for three on Friday.

This is in stark contrast to Sam Konstas, Australia’s youngest Test opener, who lit up day one with his audacious innings of 60 on debut, setting the table for a solid first-innings 474.

And with the 19-year-old getting off to the best possible start to his Test career, there is speculation that the 37-year-old Rohit could be on the verge of retiring from international red-ball cricket.

AAP