Hi Cricket Lovers
Sorry for the delay. I was away from Cricket for almost a week due to some personal loss. leaving that aside there was still cricket going on in Australia.
SCG was hosting it's 100th Test and All cricket lovers were betting on Sachin 100th International ton and that would have meant a tally of 5 consecutive tons in first innings of New Year tests for him.
When India won the toss and elected to bat on a bright sunny day it seemed like a very good decision but the things did not work out as planned hence due to a very good bowling effort from the Aussies and some rash stroke-play from the Indians they skittle out for a meager total of 191 on a bright sunny day. It looked to be a even contest till Zaheer Khan was able to take out the 3 top order wickets by the end of 9th over at the score reading 37 but when the 2 experienced players like Ponting and Clarke survived the early stint of the Indian fast bowlers and ended the day without any more loss the match started turning in their favour. Day 2 totally belonged to the Aussie captain who played through the day completing his maiden double hundred. Ponting departed at 136 which was his first Test century after 36 innings. This innings said that he still has something left in him to give back to his country in Test matches. Aussies lost only 1 wicket for the loss of 622 runs till they declared with Michael Clarke at the score of 329 not out. This was a surprise for most of the viewers as most of us would have thought Clarke could have at least tried to over take Mark Taylor's mark of 334* if not break Brian Lara's 400*.
Clarke thought otherwise and declare which gave them 9 sessions either to bowl out India and win the match chasing if need be. In the Indian 2nd Innings all the focus shifted to Sachin's 100th century which was stopped by none other than the triple century maker Clarke with his slow left arm spin. He was able to bowl a delievry which draw Sachin into a stroke and turned enough to take an edge which ricocheted off Haddin into the hands of Hussey at 1st slip. Most of the SCG crowd turned silent for a moment but then gave Sachin a standing ovation for the innings which might be his last at SCG in Tests for India.
After that India started losing there way and got dismissed about 68 runs short of making Australia bat again. The comeback pacer Hilfenhaus was the main wrecker of the Indians with 2nd 5 wicket haul of the series. Clarke was a unanimous decision for the Man of the Match while Australia have take an unassailable lead which will mean that India can at Max draw this series by winning the last 2 tests. The upcoming Test at Perth will be the most testing of All for the Indian as history suggest the pitch will be fast one with a lot of grass on it. The media are calling the pitch to be 'the Green Demon' which is very fearsome as it sounds.
As of now I think if the Indians have to show how good fighters they are they should repeat there performance at Perth from 2008 and defeat the Aussies using the Pace attack which is bolstered with Zaheer finally making it to Perth this time around. Umesh and Ishant will be very potent on this pacy and bouncy pitch for sure if they maintain there composure for all the days where they bowl their hearts out.
That's all for now.
Till then Bye
Sorry for the delay. I was away from Cricket for almost a week due to some personal loss. leaving that aside there was still cricket going on in Australia.
SCG was hosting it's 100th Test and All cricket lovers were betting on Sachin 100th International ton and that would have meant a tally of 5 consecutive tons in first innings of New Year tests for him.
When India won the toss and elected to bat on a bright sunny day it seemed like a very good decision but the things did not work out as planned hence due to a very good bowling effort from the Aussies and some rash stroke-play from the Indians they skittle out for a meager total of 191 on a bright sunny day. It looked to be a even contest till Zaheer Khan was able to take out the 3 top order wickets by the end of 9th over at the score reading 37 but when the 2 experienced players like Ponting and Clarke survived the early stint of the Indian fast bowlers and ended the day without any more loss the match started turning in their favour. Day 2 totally belonged to the Aussie captain who played through the day completing his maiden double hundred. Ponting departed at 136 which was his first Test century after 36 innings. This innings said that he still has something left in him to give back to his country in Test matches. Aussies lost only 1 wicket for the loss of 622 runs till they declared with Michael Clarke at the score of 329 not out. This was a surprise for most of the viewers as most of us would have thought Clarke could have at least tried to over take Mark Taylor's mark of 334* if not break Brian Lara's 400*.
Clarke thought otherwise and declare which gave them 9 sessions either to bowl out India and win the match chasing if need be. In the Indian 2nd Innings all the focus shifted to Sachin's 100th century which was stopped by none other than the triple century maker Clarke with his slow left arm spin. He was able to bowl a delievry which draw Sachin into a stroke and turned enough to take an edge which ricocheted off Haddin into the hands of Hussey at 1st slip. Most of the SCG crowd turned silent for a moment but then gave Sachin a standing ovation for the innings which might be his last at SCG in Tests for India.
After that India started losing there way and got dismissed about 68 runs short of making Australia bat again. The comeback pacer Hilfenhaus was the main wrecker of the Indians with 2nd 5 wicket haul of the series. Clarke was a unanimous decision for the Man of the Match while Australia have take an unassailable lead which will mean that India can at Max draw this series by winning the last 2 tests. The upcoming Test at Perth will be the most testing of All for the Indian as history suggest the pitch will be fast one with a lot of grass on it. The media are calling the pitch to be 'the Green Demon' which is very fearsome as it sounds.
As of now I think if the Indians have to show how good fighters they are they should repeat there performance at Perth from 2008 and defeat the Aussies using the Pace attack which is bolstered with Zaheer finally making it to Perth this time around. Umesh and Ishant will be very potent on this pacy and bouncy pitch for sure if they maintain there composure for all the days where they bowl their hearts out.
That's all for now.
Till then Bye
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