Adelaide Check: Australia captain Tim Paine accepts

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Australian captain Tim Paine said after playing a fifties innings against Team India’s dangerous bowling attack in the day-night test on Friday, it was not easy to see the pink ball coming from afar in the night light. Paine remained the top scorer with an unbeaten 73, despite his team being all out on 191 in the first innings on the second day of the match at Adelaide Oval.

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Australian Captain Tim Paine said about pink Ball at the press conference, “Yes, definitely the level of fast bowling is excellent. The pink ball is also probably a reason. It is not easy to adjust and play it and I can tell you that it is very difficult for the player. ‘

Batting at Adelaide Oval on the second day was not easy, due to which some batsmen adopted a more cautious attitude. The Indian team, who were All-Out on 244 runs in the first innings, increased their total to 62 runs by the end of the day’s play.

Paine accepted that this was not his team’s best performance. He said, “Yes, it is definitely not our best performance but credit goes to team India. They bowled really well, put us under pressure, we could not achieve rhythm or make partnerships, today we could not do it. But our top order has done a good job for us so far.

Senior off spinner Ravichandran Ashwin took 4 wickets while fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah took 2 wickets. Paine said that Australia would definitely try to make a comeback due to their bowling attack. He said, ‘In the end, we have to chase the target, we know that it will be challenging, our bowling is fantastic, anything can happen tomorrow.’

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Paine said, “We know our fast bowling attack and yesterday there were a lot of opportunities in the first 10 overs for Nathan Lyon. We can take wickets fast and certainly this is what we will try to do, keeping the scoreboard under control. We hope that we will be able to keep the score as low as possible. ‘

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