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While Australia takes an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the three match series the night had one sour note with David Warner taken for scans on a groin strain.

David Warner suffers a groin injury at the SCG on Sunday night. Picture: AFP

Australia vs India, live coverage of the second one-day international, from the SCG. Australia won the toss and are batting.

Peter Lalor 10.45pm: Aussies take series after record win

Australia were imperious again after winning the toss, passing their record 6-375 against India in the first match by posting 4-389 in conditions that were miserable for fielders and bowlers.

All five members of the top order scored half centuries or more.

The highest score ever at the SCG was always going to be a big ask for India to match and when it lost its openers in the eighth and ninth overs it seemed over. Virat Kohli threatened with an 89 but was brilliantly caught by Moises Henriques off the bowling of Hazlewood.

It was a night for great catches with Steve Smith pulling in a blinder to end Shreyas Iyer’s innings and a good night for Henriques whose bowling was effective after being brought in to replace the injured Marcus Stoinis.

India finished 51 runs behind Australia on 9-338 in front of an almost empty stadium.

While Australia takes an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the three match series the night had one sour note with David Warner taken for scans on a groin strain. If his demeanour and gait are an by indication he may be in doubt for the Test series as well.

Peter Lalor 8.10pm: Warner injury puts Pucovski in line for Test

It was presumed Will Pucovski’s chance of making his debut in next month’s first Test would come at the expense of Joe Burns, but an injury to David Warner threatens that prediction.

Warner appeared to hurt his groin while fielding early in the second innings of the ODI against India at the SCG on Sunday night.

David Warner is helped from the field. Picture: Getty Images)

The opener had to be helped from the field and later left the ground as the game continued.

He is in doubt for the rest of the limited over series and possibly worse.

Groin injuries are notoriously slow to heal and it is less than three weeks until the first Test in Adelaide on December 17.

Warner had started the summer, like all of Australia’s top order, in brilliant form. The opener hit 63 in the first match as part of a 156-run partnership with captain Aaron Finch and 83 on Sunday before being run out. The pair had put on 142 runs before Finch’s dismissal.

His absence may even up a lopsided contest. India is missing opener Rohit Sharma.

Warner’s aggression at the top of the order has been a constant for Australian cricket for many years.

Pucovski takes a more measured approach to the game, but is an extraordinary talent.

He has scored two double centuries for Victoria in the first two Sheffield Shield games of the summer.

Burns and the Pucovski were expected to play off for a place in the side in a forthcoming game for Australia A against India A at the SCG.

Australia have a number of options for the rest of the limited overs series including opening with Matthew Wade or including Cameron Green and shuffling the order.

Peter Lalor 6.30pm: Aussies set record SCG score

Before last year’s Ashes Steve Smith was overheard muttering a strange mantra as he exited the nets in Birmingham: “Better tomorrow, better the day after and even better the day after that”.

Technically Smith’s 62-ball century against the Indians at the SCG on Sunday was on par with his 62-ball century against the Indians at the SCG two days earlier, but it would be churlish to quibble that he is only maintaining and not improving standards.

The team adopted the batsman’s mantra and were imperious again after winning the toss, passing their SCG record 6-375 against India in the first match by posting 4-389 in conditions that were miserable for fielders and bowlers.

All five members of the top order scored half centuries or more.

Smith, as we have known for some time, is an eccentric genius and one of the greatest Test batsmen of all time. His performances in the 50-over game — he sits at 21 on the ICC rankings — have never quite matched his five-day efforts but that appears to be changing.

His 11th century was as energetic and as entertaining as his 10th. Not blessed with the power of a David Warner or Aaron Finch, he makes up for that with invention, leverage and skill.

There were bigger and more creative shots, but an early on drive was masterful. In the 40th over of the innings he cracked a Jasprit Bumrah slow through point for four, the subsequent slow delivery was glided through slips and a few balls later he flicked a ball travelling outside the off stump past short fine leg for another boundary.

Good luck setting fields to that.

Steve Smith plays another unorthodox shot. Picture: Phil Hillyard

By now the Smith tropes are well known. The traditional finding of the hands was played out in the lead up to the series. A finely tuned creation, the batsman is renowned for spending weeks trying to find that Goldilocks place on the bat handle. He once asked an umpire in a Shield game to make a mark on the grip when the epiphany arrived. Unfortunately the grip slipped and the record was lost.

Despite his appetite for batting being well known he has again reminded team mates and coaches in recent weeks about the extent of the affliction. Justin Langer says Ricky Ponting’s arm fell off after two weeks giving throw downs to the former captain during the recent quarantine period. Complaints about the sound of his shadow batting in the hotel room have been recorded.

Did you know he fidgets?

Warner and Aaron Finch narrowly missed posting their sixth — and second consecutive — 150-run partnership but have moved themselves into some rare air when it comes to the history of such unions.

The left and right handed duo average of 52.72 over 71 innings is second to none — slightly better than legendary West Indies Gordon Greenidge and Desmond Haynes, who dominated the format in the 1980s.

Warner and Finch put on 156 in the first game of the series and continued from where they’d left off.

Warner was particularly aggressive, hitting Navdeep Saini’s first delivery for six and Yuzvendra Chahal’s second got the same treatment. Both bowlers were expensive in the first game and proved so again forcing Kohli to elicit overs from the part timer Mayank Agarwal and even a couple from Hardik Pandya who is removing from injury.

Finch, who struggled in the IPL and was dropped by his franchise, has fixed whatever was wrong, following up his century in the previous game with 60 from 69 deliveries while Warner made 83 from 77. Their partnership came to an end with the score on 142 in the 23rd over.

Glenn Maxwell again made the most of opportunity afforded in the last 10 overs by smashing 63no from 29 deliveries.

India braved Australia’s heat slightly better than on Sunday they did two days before but the Finch’s performance and call at the toss had the visitors suffering again at the SCG.

Virat Kohli admitted his side struggled in the first game with muscles, unused to the exertion after a long IPL and two weeks hotel quarantine, protesting half way through a ragged but entertaining match.

Glenn Maxwell hits a sex at the SCG. Picture: Phil Hillyard

The same XI found themselves in the field on a 40C Sydney day with a strong, hot wind making conditions even more unpleasant.

Gallingly, the promised cool change worked its way up the coast and arrived at the ground late in the Australian innings.

The Indians are limited in their bowling options and the sight of Mohammed Shami leaving the ground for treatment on a number of occasions must have been a concern. The quick was struck on the shoulder in the nets before Friday’s game.

Peter Lalor 2.30pm: Aussies batting first at SCG furnace

Australia has opted for Moises Henriques as a replacement for the injured Marcus Stoinis over Cameron Green and Sean Abbott.

Aaron Finch won the toss and chose to bat, forcing India to field in trying conditions for the second ODI against India. It was 39C before play with hot, swirling winds.

A southerly change is expected later in the afternoon.

Fans in the heat during the One-Day International between Australia and India at the SCG. Picture. Phil Hillyard

There is great excitement around the all-rounder Green who Greg Chappell described in The Australian recently as the best since Ricky Ponting, but he is recovering from stress fractures and not ready to bowl 10 overs in a match.

Henriques has earned the right to play with a good start to the 2020-21 season.

India made no changes to the side that failed to chase down Australia’s total on Friday. The Australian total of 6-374 is their highest against India and included centuries by Steve Smith and Finch.

Smith’s 62 ball effort was the third fastest by an Australian and one of the best of his career in ODIs.

Finch’s was his 17th in ODIs and fourth against India. The 156 run opening partnership was the fifth 150 plus by David Warner and Finch.

Virat Kohli admitted his side found it difficult playing their first match after two weeks in quarantine and stiffened up around the 30 over mark.

Stoinis is suffering a minor side strain.

Fox Cricket is understood to be excited about the ratings with all indications that once the Kayo numbers are assessed it will set a record.

More fans are expected to tune in today with people staying home to escape the heat and people not at work.

Smith blasts ton in crushing first-game win

Steve Smith was eccentrically brilliant and Aaron Finch more measured, the Indian batsman lit up the late evening with an entertaining attempt to chase down a record score of 6-374 but the home side prevailed by 66 runs in the opening one-day match of the men’s summer.

Steve Smith celebrates his century in game one. Picture: Brett Costello

What a strange game of cricket, as remarkable for the endeavour and enterprise of individual batsmen as it was for the utter haplessness of the fielding teams. Measures to ensure cricketers did not catch Covid-19 appear to have had the unintended result of ensuring they do not catch anything, the Kookaburra included.

Smith’s faster than a run-a-ball effort, was showbiz, thick with tricks, taunts and terrific timing.

Another side effect appears to be tardiness. India took 40 extra minutes to complete their overs and Australia was not much better in a game that finished an hour late.

Hardik Pandya (90) and Shikhar Dhawan (74) threatened with a century partnership and some lusty hitting, Kohli blew hard and fast but was gone for a run-a-ball 21.

Pandya’s innings alone was worth the price of admittance. Josh Hazlewood picked up the first three wickets of the innings to ensure the visitors were never comfortable in their chase.