A ranar Juma’a, Disamba 27, 2024, wasan kriket tsakanin Indiya da Australia a Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) ya fara a ranar 2 na 4th Test. Australia, bayan sun yi 311-6 a ranar 1, sun ci gaba da wasan su a ranar 2, inda suka kaiji 474 a duk wicket 10.
Steve Smith ya ci gaba da wasan sa na 68 daga ranar 1, ya kai 100 a wasan sa na 34 a Test cricket. Kapten Pat Cummins kuma ya yi kusa da 50, amma ya kasa kai 49. Jasprit Bumrah ya zama mai wickets a gefen Indiya, ya doke wickets 4 cikin 99 runs.
Indiya, bayan sun fara wasan su na batting, sun rasa wickets biyu a matakai na farko. Rohit Sharma ya ci 3 runs kacal, yayin da KL Rahul ya ci 24 runs kafin Pat Cummins ya doke shi a lokacin tea. Yashasvi Jaiswal da Virat Kohli sun ci gaba da wasan su, suna neman yin nasara a wasan.
Wannan wasan ya zama muhimma ga zobe-zobe na World Test Championship, inda nasara a Melbourne zai hana masu fafatawa yin nasara a jerin wasannin. Indiya ta bukaci nasara a wasannin biyu na gaba don samun tikitin zuwa WTC final, yayin da Australia ta bukaci nasara a wasannin biyu na gaba da Sri Lanka don kaiwa a WTC final.