5.30 P.M.
Australia 189/2, needs another 53 runs to avoid follow-on.
Katich 92 and Hussey 45 have ensured that Australia suffered no further alarms.
Harbhajan got Pointing’s wicket for the 10 th time. Surely, Ponting should be regarded as much more than Bhajji’s bunny. Sadly, it was struggle after that wicket. Dhoni was reduced to calling on Tendulkar to bowl a few over's.
The pitch is turning albeit slowly and both our pacers and our spinners have come a cropper. Unless our pacers regain the reverse swing or the pitch crumbles, this match is in danger of becoming boring.
2.20 P.M.
Whatever be the result, this Test will go down in my memory as the Krejza’s test.What a wonderful performance by a debutant. The reward was for his persistence and getting 8 wickets is no joke. Hats off young man!
Dhoni and Ganguly played a utilitarian innings. The rest of the team scraped around Harbhajan to get the score up to 441. It is not a bad score, however, the onus is on our bowlers particularly Harbhajan and Mishra to weave a spell around the Aussies.
Let us wait watch how the Indian team capitalizes on the fortuitous Hayden’s run out.
6.30 A.M.
India is 311 for 5 at the close of first day’s play of the final test at Nagpur. However, this leaves India neither here nor there. The Indian middle order, Sachin and Laxman in particular made and unmade this innings. They played well to ensure India suffered no damage after Krejza’s double strike and after doing all the hard work threw it away in a hot-headed fashion.
Credit for reducing India to this position should go to Krejza's. His 3 for may not sound much, but he lured such accomplished players of spin like Dravid, Sehwag and Laxman to their doom. Remember Warne ended up with worse figures on his debut.
Both Ganguly and Dhoni have their work cut out. The second new ball is still new and an early wicket may revive a dormant Lee.
Ganguly should ensure he does not bog down the run rate in his quest for last test glory, read century. The danger as usual lies in the first hour and after that India has to push on hard if they are to fashion a victory.
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6 comments:
it looks like ganguly has decided to sit alongside greg chapple...in records books...
he is looking set for a ton...
Pan,
Yep they appear inseparable.:)
Ott, clearly Brett and Lee still not getn along too well.
NC,
A reassuring hug from Priety will perhaps do the trick.
Looks like yet another long tough test match for both teams... hard to see where this is leading to... the bowling clearly looks ineffective by today's play.
Scorpi,
The way I see it only a female streaker can enliven this match. :)
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