India vs Australia 3rd Test, Day 2: Australia 451 all out

At the end of play, opener Murali Vijay was unbeaten on 42, while Cheteshwar Pujara was 10 not out.

Kohli injured his shoulder diving to stop a boundary on day one and failed to field on day two.

Fast bowler Umesh Yadav also bowled well for figures of 3/106 while star off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin also bagged a wicket.

Earlier, resuming the day at 299 for the loss of four wickets, the visitors started playing normally, in no hurry to score runs.

2 Australian players to score centuries in all three global formats.

He celebrated his return in style and looked overwhelmed after bringing up his hundred, embracing Smith in a bear-hug and kissing the badge on the helmet.

However, Jadeja took Maxwell’s wicket after the Australian all-rounder had scored 104. “I didn’t want to waste the opportunity, didn’t want to make it my last Test that’s for sure”, Maxwell said after day two’s proceedings of the third cricket Test.

Better known for his exploits in the shorter formats, the 28-year-old grasped his chance in his first Test outing in more than two years to build a series-high 191-run partnership with his skipper.

Steve Smith’s unbeaten 178 powered Australia to a huge first innings total of 451 against India in the third Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy at the JSCA International Stadium in Ranchi on Friday.

Kohli is now recovering from a shoulder injury that he sustained on the first day of the ongoing third Test in Ranchi against Australia while fielding at the boundary line.

In the batting line-up that featured four batsmen dismissed for a single-digit score, Smith steadied the innings to bring hopes for the Aussie fans.

The surface is expected to take turn as the match progresses, likely increasing the degree of difficulty for the team batting last.

“It’s a 100-run-a-session wicket”. That was obviously the plan when we came out today. “But the exact status of the injury will be known by tomorrow morning after we get the scan reports”, India’s fielding coach R Sridhar told reporters.

AUSTRALIA: David Warner, Matthew Renshaw, Steve Smith (captain), Shaun Marsh, Peter Handscomb, Glenn Maxwell, Matthew Wade, Steve O’Keefe, Josh Hazlewood, Usman Khawaja, Nathan Lyon, Pat Cummins, Marcus Stoinis, Mitchell Swepson, Ashton Agar, Jackson Bird.

Wade, after a quick 37 (50b, 6×4), which pushed the total to within five runs of 400, was inevitably picked up by the only bowler who has looked capable of picking up wickets -Jadeja. Kohli’s team is also more vocal than their predecessors, knowing they can back up their words with action. That extra pace is hard to adjust when it is doing something different height wise off the wicket.