Australian openers cash in on opportunity
The openers of Australia Simon Katich and Shane Watson started their campaign in India with great style as the two helped themselves with morsels of centuries against a Board Presidents XI side in Chandigarh today. In the warm up match the Kangaroo skipper
Ricky Ponting won the toss and decided to bat since he felt that this would give his openers a good opportunity to see for themselves the conditions in India. The openers definitely made the most of the conditions and shared a double century partnership as
Australia finished strongly scoring 319 for the loss of just one wicket.
The left handed batsman Simon Katich made his century right before tea however he had to go back to the pavilion after getting hurt. His partner Shane http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Piyush-c82317 Chawla.
Katich like the proverbial 9 lives of a cat was given a lifeline when he was on 60 and 62 however the Indian side could not make the most of the opportunity.
Meanwhile the Australian skipper Ricky Ponting and Michael http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Clarke-c51120 continued to make runs, and ended the day with an unbeaten 42 and 43 not out. The Australian side seems in good form and they can most certainly give India loads of trouble with both their
batting and bowling. It will be expected that the pitches would not be dead tracks as witnessed earlier this year against Sri Lanka.
The Indian squad also included Cheteshwar Pujara the new comer in the side who has replaced Yuvraj Singh. Pujara yields a lot of potential and his domestic track record has most certainly proven that which compelled the selectors to pick him against Australia.
Since Doug Bollinger from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 who have made it to the final of the tournament. Australia have also given an opportunity to the out of form Marcus North and the
spinner Steven Smith who have their chance to shine against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750.
India has also selected a strong squad and this will give their batsmen some much needed practice before the start of the 2011 world cup. Meanwhile, Yuvraj Singh was very disappointed with the decision of axing him from the squad since he believed that it
was his opportunity to shine. Yuvraj Singh fell sick during his tour to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 and Suresh Raina made the most of his selection as replacement for Yuvraj by scoring a century.
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