Following the conclusion of Day 2 of the Boxing Day Test between India and Australia at the ongoing Border Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 at Melbourne Cricket Ground, it is expected that the play of the play of the game may suffer on DAY 3 due to rain.
According to the weather monitoring website AccuWeather, there is a 79 per cent chance of rain in Melbourne on 28 December.
The Met website also predicts 2.5 hours of rain, which may reach 0.14 inches. Cloud cover will be around 66 per cent on Saturday morning and rise to 98 per cent in the afternoon.
However, Sunday will be partly sunny and pleasant with just 2 per cent chance of precipitation and cloud cover of 47 per cent. The same goes for Monday, with 3 per cent of precipitation expected and cloud cover of 59 per cent.
Earlier on 25 December, AccuWeather in its weather forecast stated that there is barely any chance of rain until Monday, but the forecast for the first three days is cloudy. The probability of rain being 0 to 2 per cent on the opening two days, but an evening shower could be expected on Day 3. The probability of rain may increase to 24 per cent on Day 3. However, the weather is expected to be mostly sunny on the final two days.
India VS Australia, 4th Test, Day 2:
On DAY 2 Stumps, India have scored 164 of 5 wickets in 46 overs, trailing by 310 runs. Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja will begin DAY 3 for India.
Earlier, Australia posted 474 runs on the scorecard after losing all the wickets in 122.4 overs on DAY 2.
Steve Smith scored his 34th Test century, and his fifth at MCG. This was also his 11th century in 43 innings against India.
In 197 deliveries, Smith scored 140 runs, supported by Marnus Labuschagne (72), Usman Khwaja (57) and Sam Konstas (60).
For India, Jasprit Bumrah took four wickets, Ravindra Jadeja picked three, Akash Deep took two, and Washington Sundar took one wicket.
Training by 475 runs, India quickly lost skipper Rohit Sharma (3) and KL Rahul (24). But Yashasvi Jaiswal (82) and Virat Kohli (36) pushed India to score 164/5 in 46 overs.
For Australia, Pat Cummins and Scott Bolland took two wickets each.
