India won the 3rd test match by 72 runs.
India halted journey of countineous 16 test wins.
as R.P.Singh took last wicket, Harbhajan Singh comes racing into the field with the Indian flag.
as per crickbuzz India becomes the first side to beat Australia in Australia in 5 years!
India and
Australia was playing 3rd test at W.A.C.A., Perth, after a controversial 2nd test.
It was prestigious to both to win.
India was trialing 2-0 in this series, so for india it was do or die match to draw series.
finally
India won the match by 72 runs.
Irfan Pathan is the
Man of the Match for his all round performance in this Test match. He picked up 5 wickets and a valuable 28 in the 1st innings and 46 in the second inning.
Today's movements
Fourth day:
After only good partnership between Pointing and Hussey, Australian batsmans failed to stay on field to win the test.
India ballers doing great job, Sehwag took 2 wicket in consecutive overs, that turned match total in arms of indians.
Australia 227/6 ( 60.3 ov.),
229/7 (62.2 ov.),
253/8 (71.1 ov.)
Australia on 266/8 needs 147 runs to win and India need 2 wickets to win.
Australia on 326/9( 83.6 ov.),
Australia on 340/10 ( 86.5 ov.)
R.P and Pathan done great job for India as in first inning.
Third Day:
Australia second inning:
India got first success.
Australia 21/1 . needs 392 to win.
Pathan taken wicket of Roger.
Good statrt by india.
Third day stumps: Australia 65/2 (15.0 Ovs)
, need 348 runs to win.
India second inning countinues
Australians are back in test as they putting Indian batsman under pressure.
India lost early wickets in first session,
India 152/5 (31 overs)
, Lead of 270 runs
Pathan(44) and Laxman(15) batting in middle. Laxman got another chance to prove under pressure as he is famous for.
B.Lee and Clarke got 2 wickets each.
No contribution by sachin(13), Dravid (3), Ganguly(0).
India need good partnership to win this match.
on Lunch break: India 158/5 (33 overs) -Lead of 276 runs
After lunch India lost 6th wicket of Pathan(46)
India 162/6. Lead of 280 runs .
India 235/7 ( 62nd over) Dhoni out on (38)
Symonds taken 2 wickets in same over.
India 235/8 ( 62nd over)
big blow for india. Lead of 353 runs.
From now its hard to win match. Bowlers again need to do superb job to win.
India 294/10. Lead of 412 runs.
R.P.singh played well (30), LAxman(79)
R.P. and Pathan played well as all rounder. the dio need to keep momentum to win match.
Australia need 413 runs to win.
Second day:
India's second inning:
India 32/0 in 7th over. still 15 overs left for the second day.
Sehwag on 22.
India lost first wicket, Wasim Jaffer on 11. he failed in both innings.
Pathan comes in place of Rahul Dravid. good move by Anil Kumble.
India 45/1 (10 overs), still 12 overs left for the day.
Pathan is player batting both innings on same day. in morning he batted as first inning and in evening he batting for second inning and in between he bowled well(2 wickets).
overall its Pathan's day.
at the end of the day
India on 52/1 (11 overs),
Sehwag on 29 and Pathan on 2 .
Good day for India.
before that:
Australian wrapped Indian inning on 330.
Dhoni 19, Pathan 28 and kumble 1.
Mitchell Johnson grab 4 wickets and Lee 3.
Australian 1st innig:Very good start by indians.
R.P. Singh(1) and Pathan(2) rocking on bouncy pitch.
They both managed to grab early wickets.
Till lunch session
Australia on 22/3.
Now bowlers need to keep momentum.
Ishant sharma joins . he got wicket of Ricky pointing (19).
Australia 43/4.
Ishant sharma taken wicket of Michal clarke (23) .
Australia 61/5.
partnership between Symonds and Gilchrist is of 60 runs. Australia 121/5 (27 overs).
till Tea break: Australia 148/5 (31 overs), partnership
between Symonds and Gilchrist is of 87(76) .
finally Kumble managed to break the partnership, he taken wicket of Symonds on 66,
Australia 163/6 (35.4 ov.),
R.P.Singh taken wicket of Gilchrist,
Australia 192/7 (42 overs.),
Indians managed to wrap the Australian on
212/10 (50 overs).
R.P.Singh taken
4 wickets.
Dhoni taken
5 catches in inning.
First day:
Yuvraj is replaced by
Virendra sehwag, he is lucky guy in concern to performance and comeback ratio. even he played well in last practice match though he failed here in first inning, got out on 29 runs, in same fashion ( no question about consistency), since last 3/4 years he has been doing same mistakes, like 1) throw the wicket at slips or keeper region, 2) No footwork.
Sachin Tendulkar and
Rahul dravid played well,
Sachin and Dravid both completed 50's individually, Good partnership ended with wrong decision of LBWagainst Sachin, he has given out on 71,
[know more about decision] he is real unlucky cricketier in the world.
Ganguly out on 9.
and then The Wall(Dravid) down on 93, another unlucky.
Laxman out on 27. Lee got his 3rd wicket.
India again failed to convert to good score on platform set by Sachin, Dravid.
At the end of the frist day India is on 297/6. Dhoni and Pathan playing on 8 runs each.
Hope they will add some more runs as India can reach in good position.
To know abt the racism, umpire mistakes issues happned after 2nd test follow the linkshttp://vivchavan.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/india-australia-test-match-umpires-win/
http://vivchavan.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/bcci-cancelled-canberra-travel-plan-good-move/
http://vivchavan.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/sachins-supports-harbhajan-by-sms-team-spirit/
http://vivchavan.wordpress.com/2008/01/09/steve-bucknor-out-team-india-tour-resumes-as-harbhajan-in/
