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Despite winning the first Test match at Mohali in a game that went right down to the wire, the Indians were dealt a severe blow of bad news after the match concluded. Opening batsman Gautam Gambhir and
fast bowler http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ishant-Sharma-c64566 were both ruled out of the second Test match due to issues with their knees.
Ishant had come into the Test match having bowled fairly long spells against the Sri Lankans in the three-Test match series. However, in the Mohali Test match against Australia, Ishant struggled throughout
the game with the ball in his hand.
Ishant bowled nearly 21 overs in the entire game and conceded 105 runs, but what was worse for him was the fact that he bowled 15 no-balls. The rhythm was so badly out of place that the Indian captain did
not bowl him for a long time in the first innings before he was hit by the knee injury. Ishant walked off the park in the first innings and for the entire duration of the innings, the Indian captain was without a fourth bowler.
Ishant also got two wickets off no-balls and such was his problem that Michael http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Clarke-c51120 was asked to wait by the umpire after he was dismissed so that he could check with the umpire on his no-ball.
Fortunately for the Indian team, Ishant returned back in the second innings and after a rather indifferent first spell, scalped three wickets in eight balls to bring the Indians back into the game. Later,
Ishant batted with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/VVS-Laxman-c2772 in what turned out to be a match-winning eighth wicket stand of 81 runs.
Gambhir, on the other hand, scored 25 in the first innings and a duck in the second and was declared out lbw in both. He injured his knee while fielding.
In the place of Gambhir and Ishant, the selectors have named Abhinav Mukund and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/S-Sreesanth-c2398 should make it to the playing eleven of the second Test match.
The second Test match starts from 9 October.
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