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[Watch] Sam Konstas Rallies Crowd Against Virat Kohli, Jaiswal In Boxing Day Test

Aakash Saini

Sam Konstas getting the Australian crowd involved on Day 2 [Source: @cricketcomau/x]Sam Konstas getting the Australian crowd involved on Day 2 [Source: @cricketcomau/x]

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Australian debutant Sam Konstas got the MCG crowd involved just before the drinks break on Day 2 of the fourth Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 Test match against India. Stationed near the boundary, Konstas got the crowd going with roars and applauses in a bid to encourage Australian spinner Nathan Lyon against unbeaten Indian batters Yashasvi Jaiswal and Virat Kohli during the 26th over of the innings.

Jaiswal, who was on strike at the time, managed to keep Lyon out as the two batters safely navigated the Indian team to 82-2 before going into the final hour of play.

Sam Konstas involves MCG crowd against Kohli, Jaiswal

Sam Konstas, who found himself at the wrong end of Virat Kohli’s aggression on Day 1 of the MCG Test, rallied up the crowd later on Day 2 against the legendary Indian batter as well as against young visiting opener Yashasvi Jaiswal.

The incident occurred just before the drinks break in the final session of Day 2 when Nathan Lyon was gearing up to bowl the final ball of the 26th over of the first Indian innings.


Making his debut at the tender age of 19, Sam Konstas showed no first-game jitters as he crashed the likes of Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj with a swift 60 from 65 balls at the top of the order on Day 1. His innings, coupled with half-centuries from Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne and a 34th Test ton from Steve Smith, engineered Australia's first innings total to 474.

For India, senior man Bumrah picked up four wickets in the innings, which included the prized scalp of Travis Head for a duck, while cunning left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja bagged figures of 3-78 from his 23 overs.

The visitors, in response, lost captain Rohit Sharma and in-form KL Rahul both cheaply to Australian skipper Pat Cummins to slip to 51-2 at one stage of their first innings before Yashasvi Jaiswal and Virat Kohli consolidated India's sinking ship with a fifty-plus stand.