Sam Konstas impressed with a fifty on his Test debut against India in the Boxing Day Test, confidently tackling Jasprit Bumrah. Bumrah reflects on the challenges of bowling in Australia while recognizing Konstas and Steve Smith as formidable opponents.

Sam Konstas made his Test debut at the MCG in the fourth Test of the Border Gavaskar Trophy and took on India's talisman Jasprit Bumrah early in the day.Konstas also broke Bumrah's streak of not conceding a six in Tests for almost 4 years,

Sam Konstas caught most of the Indian players and former cricketers off guard with his counterattacking knock on the opening day of the boxing day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). Konstas hit Bumrah for two sixes during his knock.

Jasprit Bumrah discussed his experience bowling to Australia's Sam Konstas during the Melbourne Test. He felt he could have dismissed Konstas multiple times early on. Konstas impressed with aggressive shots and scored 60 runs,

That wasn't all. In the 11th over, Konstas topped his previous assault on Bumrah, bludgeoning 19 off the India quick, hitting two fours and a six to go with a double. The two overs meant that Konstas' 34 runs off 33 balls faced by Bumrah are the most any batter has scored off him in Tests, going past 25 off 40 by Alastair Cook in 2018.

Konstas' brother Billy, who is a physiotherapist by profession, revealed how his father's error eventually helped his younger brother learn tackling pace bowling from an early age. "We were little kids and the first time dad took us to a bowling machine, he had it on 90 miles an hour, thinking it was 90 kilometres," Billy told Fox Cricket.

Australia's Sam Konstas made a memorable debut during the Boxing Day Test against India as he displayed attacking batting against Jasprit Bumrah

Opener Sam Konstas made a memorable Test debut, scoring an impressive 65-ball 60 against India on the first day of the Melbourne Test. Konstas aggress

Konstas became the first batter in the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy to hit a six against Bumrah. While most of the other Australian batters struggled to even withstand the pressure posed by the marquee Indian pacer, Konstas showed a new way he could be tackled.

With conviction, Konstas stated that he couldn't wait for another round against the premier right-arm pacer. “I'll look to keep targeting him. Hopefully he might come back on and see what happens,” said Konstas.

After the 19-year-old missed out on the ramp shot twice early in his innings, he gets it right thrice in one over against Jasprit Bumrah. Konstas hit Bumrah for two boundaries and one six, with the ramp shots, which left commentators Mark Waugh, Adam Gilchirst and Ravi Shastri in disbelief.