The Indian cricket group bowlers have struggled to get wickets within the World Test Championship (WTC) Final towards Australia and the frustration could possibly be sensed from a weird incident involving Mohammed Siraj. At the beginning of Day 2, Smith was batting on 95 and the veteran batter was in a position to attain his thirty first Test century with the assistance of two back-to-back boundaries off Siraj. On the fourth ball of the over, Smith moved away from his stumps earlier than the ball was delivered attributable to some difficulty with the spider cam nevertheless it didn’t go down nicely with Siraj. The quick bowler completed his run-up and simply threw the ball within the stumps’ route.

Siraj received no chill pic.twitter.com/ui4DyobB70

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While Smith accomplished his ton, Travis Head was in a position profitable in crossing the 150-run mark.

Australia had been 327 for the lack of three wickets on the finish of Day 1.

Travis Head and Steve Smith had been batting on 146 and 95 respectively at shut of play on Day 1 as Australia added 157 runs within the remaining session which had 34 overs with out dropping any wicket. The duo added 251 runs for the unbroken fourth wicket stand.

Earlier, Australia, who had been invited to bat, had added 97 runs within the post-lunch session in 28 overs for the lack of one wicket. They had been 73 for two at lunch after opener David Warner made 43 off 60 balls.

Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj and Shardul Thakur took a wicket every on the day.

(With PTI inputs)