IND vs AUS Boxing Day Test:  With the start of the second day of the fourth match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 between India and Australia being played at the Melbourne ground, all the players of Team India came out to play wearing black bands on the field. In fact, on the night of 26 December, former Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh passed away at the age of 92. The whole country is in mourning due to the demise of the great economist and two-time Prime Minister of the country, Manmohan Singh, in which to pay tribute to him, the Indian team came out to play with black bands on their arms on the field at the start of the second day of the Boxing-Day Test match.

The sports world also paid tribute to Manmohan Singh on his demise

Manmohan Singh was a great economist. He was the Prime Minister of the country from 2004 to 2014. On his demise, while Team India has come to play on the field wearing black bands, many other former players from the sports world have also paid tribute to him, including Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan and Yuvraj Singh. Sehwag posted on social media and wrote that my heartfelt condolences on the demise of our former Prime Minister Shri Manmohan Singh ji. Om Shanti. Harbhajan Singh wrote that I am saddened by the news of the sudden demise of former Prime Minister, a gentleman and visionary leader Dr. Manmohan Singh ji.

Australia scored 311 runs on the first day of the Boxing Day Test

At the end of the first day of the Boxing Day Test match, host Australia, after winning the toss, elected to bat first and scored 311 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in their first innings, in which they are eyeing a score of more than 400 on the second day. At the end of the second day's play, Steve Smith was batting on 68 while Kangaroo team captain Pat Cummins was batting on 7 runs.