india vs australia day four

An excellent day of cricket.showed the beauty of india-australia clashes.india dominated the proceedings from ball one as it restricted australian batsmen succsessfully.this sets up for the final days battle which it turns out to be a definite seat edge thriller may be an australian victory or an indian victory or a draw no matter what the end result would be it would be one amazing day of cricket to make the matters simple it is about whether the out of form indian batting can resist the pace attack of australia on a detorioating pitch which by every ball becoming a graveyard for batsmen.
In the first session india consolidated its position by assuring it decreased the australian lead to less than 100 runs.zaheer khan displayed amazing grit and patience to bring up his half century.a well deserved effort considering the lights of sachin,laxman,michael clark,hayden who all failed to make a mark.this is by far zaheers best test innings.the indian top order has a thing or two to learn from his batting.anil kumble hang in there for some time before an incoming watson delivery got the better of him.and then ishant sharma ensured that he gave zaheer the support.but michael clark finally provided the breakthrough after a valuable partnership of 24 runs with zaheer and more than the runs he ensured enough time is
consumed.then australia came out to bat openers matthew hayden and simon catich both look to give australia the start they needed to buld a platform for a huge score and have a go at indians.but the indian pace attack had different plans zaheer bowled exceptionnaly well with the new ball he troubled matthew hayden through out his spell and finally got rewarded with the wicket of hayden who played across the line of the delivery and out legbefore wicket and giving zaheer his sixth wicket of the match.then came the centurion from the first innings ricky ponting who had to face the music of ishant sharma.ponting got away with a close legbefore appeal as the replays showed the ball missed the leg stump but not by much.but his stay at the crease was shart as ishant got his man to a regulation catch at silly midoff to laxman.australia two down.
Harbajan was brought in to the attack he got bounce,spin from the wicket which he lacked in the first innings and made full use of that as he got rid of simon catich.michael hussey came in to bat at number four and he stayed for some time at the crease but unable to score freely as the indians persisted with good line and attacking fielding and ensured that they did not give away easy singles as they did in the first innings.then harbajan cleaned up michael hussey with a beauty,doosra bowled to perfection.hussey let the ball go thinking it to be an off spinner but the ball turned in sharply and took the offstump.
The pair of haddin and watson ensured australia dont loose another wicket before the stumps and australia ended the day at 190-5 laeving india a lead of 260.

india vs australia 1st test day two

Another very good day of cricket played in excellent spirit by both teams (which is rare to see in india-australia clashes these days).the day is highlighted by a very good innings by micheal hussey in the process reached his 9th test match century.it seemed, at one moment australia were running away from indians untill india shifted the momentum towards their favour during the last season.
remember australia started the day at 254-4 and thanks to michael husseys hard earned hundred and some sensible contributions from brad haddin and bret lee australia ended their innings at 430 runs leaving a lot to be done by both anil kumble and team india whos batting is not in great touch of late.
The first session truly went the australians way hussey dominated the most part of the runs scored, and haddin complemented him well.the day started promisingly for indians, ishant sharma got the price scalp of shane watson who reacted late to a ball coming in and kept a touch low. but apart from ishant sharma all other indian bowlers dissapointed,just giving away easy runs . both the spinners continued to struggle.kumble and harbajan, both got their lines wrong and were unable to spin the ball this poor bowling was let down by poor ground feilding of indians who gave easy singles to the australian batsmen and eased the pressure on them.
The second session was not much different indians bowlers toiled hard in the sun but with little rewards and australia managed to play out most of the session without a loss of wicket and hussey brought up yet another hundred when australia needed him to score.this would be some problem for indians not that hussey got his hundred but the fact that all of husseys hundreds were backed by australia winning the test so it would be some test for indians to over-ride this fact.
The indian fought back started in the form of ishant sharma whos slower delivery proved more than useful as india got the wickets of brad haddin and craig white.then came zaheer khan , with an immaculate spell of reverse swing got the wickets of bret lee bowled missing an in swinger,mitchell johnson just managed to get an inside edge on to the stumps and at last michael hussey whos brilliant innings came to an end by playing away from his body and inside edged the ball only to shatter the stumps.zaheer got these wickets in 14 deliveries and indian batsmen have their work cut out.
Both virender sehwag and gautam ghambir dasplayed mettle to remain not out untill rain stopped play with 10 overs left in the day.
ALL IN ALL ITS A DAY WHEN AUSTRALIA CARRIED THE GOOD WORK IN TO THE SEOND DAY BUT INDIA SURELY HAS THE MOMENTUM TOWARDS THE END OF THE DAY.

At last the much hyped india -australia series kicked off and to what a start.after australia won the toss and elected to bat first on what seemed to be a good wicket .neither team gained upper hand during any session but for brief moments india was on top thanks to the amazing bowling of the ever so improving young lad ishant sharma and a tidy zaheer khan and australia looked to be cruishing when ponting started to flow and katich complemented.


It all begun when matthew headyen read a zaheer khan delivery wrongly and got caught behind in the very first over that brought ponting to the middle and the australian captian eager to make a statement by scoring runs and setting his poor record in india straight.the rivalry ishant sharma-ricky ponting started from where it left and again ishant seemed to be winning the race but ponting sticked there and applied himself barring few anxious moments he did a pretty good job on the other end katich was rock solid in his defence and the indian seamers were kept at bay.australia closed the first session one wicket down with both ponting and katich got there eye in.


The second session started to some tidy bowling and already the pitch was easing and the turf would be ideal to bat in these two sessions. india continued to employ two spinners randomly but it is ishant sharma who provided the breakthrough for the indians and just when australians looked to take things in to their hands india pulled back.then camethe ever so consistent michael hussey the centurion in the match aganist the board presidents -11 team .india continued to employ with its two spinners stategy and in the mean time ponting looked all set to bring up his hundred.which he eventually did an amazing innings by ponting keeping in mind his poor performance in india this innings would set the tone for many more to come in this series.


In the third session it seemed indian spinners are not effective and then harbajan who looked so ordinary during the day got his man finally to his shame ricky ponting got out to harbajan singh leg before wicket.ponting played amazingly well for his century.that brought michael clark to the middle .it was not untill the last over of the day things seemed to be good for australians.india took the new ball and just when skipper anil kumble wanted a wicket to put matters on par zaheer khan provided the important breakthrough of micheal clark trapped infront leg before wicket.and australians ended the day on score 254-4.both india and australia would be happy with their show with indians wanted a better performance from their spinners and australia would be very satisfied with one wicket less
SO AS IT PANNED OUT BOTH THE TEAMS ARE ON AN EVEN PAR ON DAY-1.