Re: India in Australia 2011-12
Late order (Laxman, Kohli and Dhoni) has undone all the good work yesterday of Sachin, Sehwag and Dravid
India 245/7 in a spot of bother
Re: India in Australia 2011-12
The best batting-line of the world is 51 runs short. Slow starters or just a bad session?
Re: India in Australia 2011-12
India was lucky to get to 282. As stated earlier, Dravid and Sehwag were very lucky to get to 68 and 67. The Aussies bowled with great heart throughout. Dhoni played a poor shot. Most of the rest were caught behind, nibbling at deliveries outside the off stump. Ashwin was lucky not to be given out LBW.
I do not think the bowling was so diminant for the batsmen to crumble like this. With the old bal, the bowlers sent back the meat of the order. Talent wise, India should have scored 380 plus. But as cliche goes, you have to perform when it matters.
Re: India in Australia 2011-12
Yadav tripple pegs Aus back... Aus 25/3!
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wow... Ishant strikes now, Aus reeling at 27/4
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Good contest between bat and ball - Hussey and Ponting fighting back, RR last 6 overs 6 RPO. It is important that Indian bowlers keep up the pressure on the Aussie batsmen. Yadav has been impressive (even bowled at 150 kph)
Aus 62/4 (effectively 113/4)
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Aus 124/4
Re: India in Australia 2011-12
Wow - was too afraid to watch. Ponting gets back to form, unfortunately for India.
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old is gold :cobra:
Current partnership 108 runs, 25.4 overs, RR: 4.20 (Ponting 49, Hussey 55)
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zaheer 
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40.2
Khan to Ponting, OUT, leaves alone one that goes across him with the angle
**RT Ponting c Sehwag b Khan 60 (97b 3x4 0x6) SR: 61.85 **
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Aus 149/6
zaheer
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42.5
Khan to Haddin, OUT, outside edge and taken, Zaheer has his arms aloft, Laxman has gobbled up the feeble poke from Haddin, the angle from around the stumps has done it for Haddin, he was in the crease as this one held its line from a length, it was a long way outside off and he could have let it be, but he had a waft at it and it popped straight to Laxman
**BJ Haddin c Laxman b Khan 6 (14b 0x4 0x6) SR: 42.85 **
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49.5
Ashwin to Hussey, no run, dropped by Rahul Dravid at slip, Ashwin had done so well to draw Hussey out of his crease and have him driving at a flighted one, it turned away to take the outside edge, and went at a nice height to Dravid at slip, who, not for the first time recently, has dropped a sitter
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50.6
Yadav to Siddle, OUT, another outside edge flies towards Dravid at first slip, but this time Dhoni settles matters with a superb diving take to his right
**PM Siddle c †Dhoni b Yadav 4 (22b 0x4 0x6) SR: 18.18 **
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53.6
Ashwin to Lyon, OUT
**NM Lyon lbw b Ashwin 0 (11b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00 **
Re: India in Australia 2011-12
Aussies lead by 230 runs with 2 wickets remaining.
Great fight back by indian bowlers. Yadav is a good find for them
India may even be slight favourites now.
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anything beyond 275 and India will have serious work cut out for them
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A good Sehwag knock and the 250-300 target should actually be easy.. that is the magic of Sehwag...
Come on Viru!
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India are the fav tomorrow
good bowling by Yadav
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Great job by Zaheer -
Dontknow abt Sehwag - he looked absolutely aweful on his way to 67. As GA says, no foot movement, fishing outside off stump, living dangerously. I would prefe Abhinav Mukund in Australia, Eng and SA, and let Sehwag collect his hundreds in India.
But chances are OK now if next 2 wickets fall quickly
Southie bhai ur a newbie to tests.
Sehwag has always been like that. No foot movement Generally unorthodox technique
Lives dngerously. Unecessary aggression towards spinners. But. It works. Guy has an avg of 52. Pretty goodd for an opener!!!!!