Australia v India: 1st Test match – Day 3 Summary
India ended Day 2 of the opening Test of the 4-match series against Australia with 214/3 off 65 overs. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/I-Sharma-c1566 wasn’t able to open his account since he came in the last over of the day,
after the fall of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Tendulkar-c2556.
Day 3 was awful for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 as 'The Wall fell' on the second ball without adding a single run to the team’s score. He smashed 6 boundaries in his knock earlier.
Unexpectedly, the Indian team tumbled after the 4th wicket fell. VVS Laxman’s tragic demise on just 2 runs was devastating for the team. Similarly, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/V-Kohli-c2737 also failed to push up the score against Hilfenhaus' destructive
pace attack, scoring 6 and 11 respectively.
Soon after the duo fell, Sharma lost his wicket for 11 runs. In the lower order, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Z-Khan-c98379
and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Umesh-Yadav-c94625, scored 4 and 2 respectively.
Thus, the visitors totalled 282 from 94.1 overs with a run rate of 2.99.
In the Oz bowling line-up, Hilfenhaus grabbed a 5-wicket haul while http://www.senore.com/Cricket/PM-Siddle-c2197 picked up 2 and 3 scalps respectively.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-Graham-Downton-c44379 Cowan. Warner fell for 5 runs in the 8th over declaring a poor start for the team. Cowan added to the misery, falling for 8 runs in the same over by Yadav.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MJ-Clarke-c1978, gave up on a single-figure score. Thus, the Aussies had lost their top four players for just 27 runs.
It was the 5th wicket partnership between http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MEK-Hussey-c1942 which saved Australia, adding 115 runs to the tally. The duo rendered the Indian bowlers helpless with quick doubles and epic boundaries. Unfortunately, Punter was caught
by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Khan-c71319 in the 41st over. He scored 60 from 97 deliveries with the help of 3 fours.
The next three batsmen fell cheaply, like the rest. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Nathan-Michael-Lyon-c78822 fell on a duck.
At the end of the day, Hussey was batting on 79 runs while his partner Pattinson had made 3. The team’s overall score was 179/8.
As of now, the Aussies have a lead of 230 runs with 2 wickets in hand. They need to add at least 70-90 more runs to challenge the Indian batting giants.
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