Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Australia v/s India- 1st Test( End of Day 2)

The Boxing Day test- Day 2 began with Australia batting at 277/6. Thanks to wonderful bowling by Zaheer, India were able to pack up Australian team for 333. Indian team began batting just before the lunch, until which the score was 6/0. Gambhir was caught for 3 but other members of Team India played well and were able to take the score to a respectable 214/3. Everyone was expecting Sachin to make century before being bowled by Siddle for 73.
At the end of the day, India trails by 119 runs with 7 wickets remaining in the 1st innings. Dravid and Sharma are on the crease.

Australia :   333/10 
                     Batting: Cowan 68, Ponting 62
                     Bowling: Zaheer 4-77, Ashwin 3-81, Yadav 3-106
India:          214/3
                     Batting: Tendulkar 73, Sehwag 67, Dravid 68*
                     Bowling: Pattinson 1-35

For detailed score card click on this link :     ESPN cricinfo

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