Australia’s star batter of a generation Steve Smith fell just short of an illustrious career milestone and a Jasprit Bumrah-led India took the advantage on the second day of the fifth and final test against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

Steve Smith and Beau Webster put up a counter-attacking partnership and threatened to take away the momentum India had built early in the session but Prasidh Krishna brought the visitors right back by dismissing the former.

TSN's live blog for the fifth Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024/25 between India and Australia at the SCG in Sydney, Australia.

Sam Konstas unnecessarily poked into Jasprit Bumrah towards the end of Day 1 of the fifth Test between India and Australia in Sydney.

Virat Kohli's weakness outside off was exposed all the way back in 2014 when James Anderson made him his bunny in England. And then, Kohli went on the kind of run that players can only dream of for the next five years and this included a bumper series back in England.

Aussie opener Sam Konstas faced off against Jasprit Bumrah in a heated moment during a match. The altercation began when Konstas interrupted Bumrah while he was bowling, prompting a confrontation that required intervention from the on-field umpire.

It was Test cricket from a different age on Day 1 of this final Test. The batters were hanging on for dear life, grinding it out and waiting for the rare loose deliveries, Australia's virtuoso pacers were relentless.