At the end, the 1st Test victory went to the Australian team . There was many ups and downs throughout the match in past few days. Both teams had fair share of opportunities but the Australian team came up on top. Both team seemed to be struggling in batting. Clearly, the pitch favored the bowlers, however the Australian batsman somehow managed to go around the Indian bowlers to arrive at a good lead. Indian batsman could not do the same. Most wicket of Indian team were surrendered cheaply.
Indian team continued their poor batting performance abroad. The devastation began early for Indian team as they lost Sehwag for 7 before lunch. Another opener, Gambhir too returned pavilion early. No batsman from Indian team made respectable score. The highest runs were contributed by Sachin which was also only 32. The Indian batting crumbled and Australians were able to seal off the visitors for 169/10 delivering a victory of 122 runs. The Australian team now leads the series 1-0.
And in this way, the year ends with a sore note for the Indian team while the Australian team can enjoy New Year with their newly acquired victory.
On that note, Happy New Year 2012, enjoy your new year to the fullest.
1st Innings:
Australia : 333/10
Batting: Cowan 68, Ponting 62
Bowling: Zaheer 4-77, Ashwin 3-81, Yadav 3-106
India: 282/10
Batting: Tendulkar 73, Sehwag 67, Dravid 68*
Bowling: Hilfenhaus 5-75
2nd Innings:
Australia: 240/10
Batting: Hussey 89, Ponting 60, Pattinson 37*
Bowling: Yadav 4-70, Khan 3-53
India: 169/10
Batting: Tendulkar 32, Ashwin 30
Bowling: Pattinson 4-53, Siddle 3-42
Australia won by 122 runs
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