Tim Paine praises Travis Head for his outstanding performance against India in Adelaide Test

India's unpredictable performance in pink-ball Test matches persisted as Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins dismantled the Indian batting lineup, leading Australia to a convincing 10-wicket victory and leveling the series at 1-1. The win came as a much-needed boost for the Australian team after suffering a crushing 295-run defeat in the first Test at Perth.

Head played a 140-run knock from 141 balls at a strike rate of 99.29 during Australia's first inning. He slammed 17 fours and 4 sixes.

Speaking to SEN Breakfast, Paine said that Head doesn't care about others what people think about his technique.

"He doesn't worry about what , and I've played a little bit with him, he doesn't care what people think about his technique or how it looks. He does a lot of things where commentators would say, 'Oh, why has he done that?' or his feet are off the ground and he's playing away from his body," Paine was quoted by Foz Cricket as saying.

He added that it is amazing to watch Head, who wants to play at the peak of his powers and at the moment.

"But Travis Head plays how Travis Head plays and he has absolute conviction in the way he goes about it. It is amazing to watch a guy just at the peak of his powers at the moment," he added.

Recapping the Adelaide Test, India won the toss and opted to bat first. However, they had to face the wrath of a moving, erratic pink ball and its mastermind, Mitchell Starc . Except for a 69-run stand for the second wicket between KL Rahul and Shubman Gill and a fighting 42 in 54 balls from Nitish Kumar Reddy, there was not much highlights from India who were skittled out for 180 runs. Skipper Cummins and Scott Boland also took two wickets.

In the first innings, a 67-run partnership between Nathan McSweeney and Marnus Labuschagne for second wicket set the platform for Travis Head to impose his domination over Indian bowlers yet again with a counter-attacking 140 in 141 balls, with 17 fours and four sixes, just when Aussies lost some regular wickets. His century took Australia to 337 runs and gave them a 157-run lead.

Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj were top bowlers for India. Ravichandran and Nitish got a wicket each.

In their second innings, India appeared even more toothless as the star-studded top-order and middle-order returned back to pavillion despite starts from Jaiswal , Gill while KL Rahul and Virat Kohli failed to score well. India ended day two at 128/5.

On the third day, Pant also lost his wicket for 28 in 31 balls, with five fours. From there on, it was not looking back for the Aussies, who skittled out India for 175 runs in 36.5 overs. India led by just 18 runs, setting Aussies 19 runs to win.

Skipper Cummins took a majestic five-wicket haul, his eighth as a captain. Boland took 3/51 while Starc took 2/60.

Set a target of 19 runs, Khawaja and McSweeney chased it down without breaking a sweat in 3.2 overs.

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