India Versus Australia - Boxing Day Test
At the end of the third day stumps Australia post 230 lead on the board.Zaheer Khan make a break through quickly by rid of hussey at 89.Soon after that talenders make useful contribution and take the game away from indians and post 240 runs on the board.So,finally australia gets a useful 291 lead in the match.
Batting-Aus: David Warner 5(27),Ed Cowan 8(17),Shaun Marsh 3(11),Ricky Ponting 60(97),Michael Clarke (c) 1(4),Michael Hussey 89(151),Brad Haddin (wk) 6(14),Peter Siddle 4(22),Nathan Lyon 0(11),James Pattinson *37(81),Ben Hilfenhaus 14(29).
Bowling-Ind : Zaheer Khan 53-3,Umesh Yadav 70-4,Ishant Sharma 43-2,Ravichandran Ashwin 60-1,Virender Sehwag 7-0.
India start procedings in 2nd innings for chasing a marginal score to win the test match.But the early lose of Sehwag makes a huge different in the game.Gambhir and dravid seem like building good partner but siddle took the gambir wicket.
Soon after dravid,laxman,kohli fell very quickly without ticking the score card. After that sachin and dhoni play defensively but once again siddle makes a break through.
At last regonised pair dhoni and ashwin ticking board on went to tea at 117-6.After come back from tea once again siddle rid of dangerously looking ashwin.so finally india manage to get 169 all out.
Batting- Ind: Gautam Gambhir 13(46),Virender Sehwag 7(12),Rahul Dravid10(29),Sachin Tendulkar 32(46),VVS Laxman 1(14),Virat Kohli 0(1),MS Dhoni (c & wk) 23(44),Ravichandran Ashwin 30(35),Zaheer Khan 13(22),Ishant Sharma *6(14),Umesh Yadav 21(25).
Bowling- Aus: James Pattinson 53-4,Ben Hilfenhaus 39-2,Peter Siddle 42-3,Nathan Lyon 25-1.
Australia clinches a victory on 1st test in melbourne and lead the series. Australian pacers did the job for winning the match comprehensively.
For incredible performance with bat and bowl James Pattinson got the Man of the Match
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