BGT 2024-25: [Watch] Mitchell Starc's 'banana swing' ball uproots Shubman Gill's middle stump

Mitchell Starc rattled Gill’s stumps with a sensational delivery.

Australian left-arm seamer Mitchell Starc has left a significant mark on the 2nd Border-Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) 2024-25 test match in Adelaide.

After recording his career-best test innings bowling figures of 6/48 during India’s first innings, which bundled out the visitors for 180, the tall left-armer blasted through Shubman Gill’s stumps in India’s second innings with a ‘banana swing’ delivery.

It has been a battle of fast bowlers in the Adelaide test and Starc is currently leading it.

He was sensational on day 1. But on day 2, he found it a bit to get the line right of the pink ball under lights as it moved considerably in the air.

However, he got the swing, line and length perfect to Gill to knock over his middle-stump. Bowled from over the wicket, Starc sent down a thunderous in-swinging delivery that moved significantly into Gill.

But with Starc’s speed, Gill couldn’t cover for the inward movement and left a huge gap between his pad and bat, allowing the ball to burst through it and smash the middle stump out of the ground.

Watch: Mitchell Starc castles Shubman Gill with a jaffa

CASTLED! Mitch Starc gets some "banana swing" to make a mess of Shubman Gill's stumps 🍌#DeliveredWithSpeed | @NBN_Australia | #AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/sP41huXm4F

— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) December 7, 2024

Meanwhile, Australia are running away with the test match in Adelaide. Courtesy of Travis Head’s century, the hosts took a first-innings lead of 157 runs. The bowlers have since then put them in a position from where they can push for a win soon, having taken five Indian wickets for 105 runs.

Teams:

Australia (Playing XI): Usman Khawaja, Nathan McSweeney, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey(w), Pat Cummins(c), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Scott Boland

India (Playing XI): Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant(w), Rohit Sharma(c), Nitish Reddy, Ravichandran Ashwin, Harshit Rana, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj

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