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.
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