India managed to stay relatively ahead in the fifth Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy with a 145-run lead in their second innings at the end of the second day.

The day started with Australia continuing on from an overnight score of 9/1 in order to take advantage of India's low first innings total. But the plan fell apart as a united bowling effort from India restricted Australia to 181 - four lower than India's total. Jasprit Bumrah (2 for 33), Mohammed Siraj (3 for 51), Prasidh Krishna (3 for 42) and Nitish Kumar Reddy (2 for 32) all contributed in giving India a first innings lead. Australia might have been shot out for lower than that if not for debutant Beau Webster (57 off 105) who stitched important partnerships with the lower order to keep Australia inching.

In between, India suffered a scare as captain Jasprit Bumrah was taken to a local medical facility for scans and India had to go without him for a large part of their bowling innings. Although Bumrah later returned to the ground to the relief of the side.

India's second innings started with aplomb as Yashasvi Jaiswal took Mitchell Starc apart by hitting four fours in the first over of the innings itself. Jaiswal's opening partnership with KL Rahul looked on track until Scott Boland (4 for 42) triggered a collapse. Boland took each of the first three wickets to fall as India went from 42 for 0 to 59 for 3. Enter Rishabh Pant.

Without caring for the apparent collapse, Rishabh Pant (61 off 33) charged down the ground and hit Scott Boland for six on the very first ball he faced. Pant kept the aggression up throughout his knock and reached his fifty in just 29 balls but fell soon after. Pant's knock contained six fours and four sixes as he spared pretty much no Australian bowler.

After Pant's dismissal, Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar ensured that India were through to stumps without too much more damage and a lead of 145 runs.

Here are the best stats highlights from the day -

1 - With 32 wickets in the series, Jasprit Bumrah has broken Bishan Singh Bedi's record for the most wickets by an Indian bowler in a single Test series away from home. Bedi took 31 in the 1977/78 series against Australia.

1 - Jasprit Bumrah's 32 wickets have equalled the record for the most wickets by a bowler in a single edition of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Harbhajan Singh had also taken 32 in the 2001 edition of the BGT.

5 - Today marked the fifth time in Test cricket that Scott Boland had taken Virat Kohli's wicket. Kohli is now the batter that Boland has dismissed the most times in his brief Test career.

6 - Rishabh Pant became the sixth Indian batter to hit a six on the first ball he faced in a Test innings. The most recent player before him was Rohit Sharma against Bangladesh in Kanpur.

2 - Rishabh Pant's 29-ball fifty is the second fastest ever for India in Tests. The record for the fastest Test fifty by an Indian is also held by Pant who had gotten to the mark in 28 balls against Sri Lanka in 2022.

1 - Rishabh Pant is now the first batter in the world to reach a Test fifty in less than 30 balls twice.

1 - Rishabh Pant's strike rate of 184.84 in this innings is the highest by an Indian player in a single Test innings of 50 runs or more.

3 - Rishabh Pant is now the third player ever to score 50 or more runs in a Test innings at a strike rate of 150 or more twice. Viv Richards and Ben Stokes are the others.