With some of the most exquisite bit of batting on display, Steve Smith toyed with the Indian bowlers to gallop to his second consecutive hundred and power Australia to 389/4 from 50 overs in the second one-day international in Sydney on Sunday.

Following up his 105 off 66 balls in Friday’s first ODI victory, Smith amassed a dominant 104 off 64 balls as the Indians were left without any answers to deaccelerate the Australian innings on a slow-paced Sydney Cricket Ground pitch in searing conditions.

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The mammoth total has put pressure on Virat Kohli’s India to run down the daunting target under lights to prevent Australia from winning the three-match series ahead of Wednesday’s final game in Canberra.

India have lost their last four ODIs and are bidding to avoid a fifth consecutive defeat for the first time since January 2016.

After electing to bat first, Australia subjected the tourists to another of toil under a hot sun. 

All five of the Kangaroos’ top-order batters crossed the 50-run-mark with ease. David Warner hit 83 off 77 balls, Finch 60 off 69, Marnus Labuschagne 70 off 60 and Glenn Maxwell bludgeoned a crowd-pleasing unbeaten 63 from 29 balls.

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Smith put on a batting clinic with his full array of quirky shot-making as he raced to triple figures laced with 14 fours and two sixes.

He fell two balls later stretching for a wide slower delivery off Hardik Pandya and getting a thick edge to Mohammed Shami at third man.