The Australians with extreme caution&boldness began their first innings encouragingly
by the openers EJM Cowan&David Warner posting a very fair opening partnershipof 139 runs.
However,at this Stage Warner played a ball forward straight touching the bat&rising in
the air .Dhoni from behind made no mistake in making a running catch to marrk the end of
warner in the 48th over of the innings.Ravindra Jadeja was the striker.Warner had made a
hard earned71 with 9 hits to the fence.
Michael Clarke ,the Captain joined Cowan in the middle but fell to the next ball from
jadeja playing advancing from the crease&again Dhoni made no mistake in stumping before the Australian could retrieve his crease.
The untimely&unexpected wicket marked the beginning of the end of the AQustralian innings.
PJ Hughes who joined Cowan took the score to a reasonable 151 when he in the 50th over
was removed by Dhonicaught behind to a good ball from Pragyan Ojha.
The score card read 151 for 3 wickets.
Desperate Australians struggled when EJM Cowan was the next casuality at the score of
198 for 4.A good ball from R.Aswin, the destroyer at Chennai,was taken by Virat Kohli who was very much on the alert.
This took the procession of wicketfalling to 198/4.
The Australian started sweating in the heat generatyed by the overnight rain.
But then SPD Smith&man in glows Haddin had taken rthe score to a fair position when Haddin fell to a ball from Ishant Sharma which uprooted his stump to lead the score to244/5
Yet another strike in the same manner after the gap of one ball found the stump of
MC Henriques uprooted.The score card read 244 for 6.
Thus the double strike from Ishant Sharma again had the effect of Australias Entering the Dragon when Peter Siddle balso fell at 251 on the boardfor the loss of 7 wickets
in the 99th over.
The match had started earlier to compensate for te wash out on the first day.
Australians continued tio struggle until stumps after playing 6 more overs.
At the close the score card read 273 for loss of 7 wickets.
SPD Smith on 58 with 7 glorious hits to the fence remained not out for the day with
MA Starc playing a supporting role with 20 runs to his credit
Tomorrow is yet another day!.Unless Australia makes a score of over 350 runs in the first innings ,a repeat of the preceding Tests can not be totally ruled out at Mohali also as the loss of one day does not seems to affect Indians too badly.
All the Best to Australians mainly&also to Indians tomorrow.
SreedharanMundanat
15th March2013
17-03Hrs(IST)
The Australians with extreme caution&boldness began their first innings encouragingly
by the openers EJM Cowan&David Warner posting a very fair opening partnershipof 139 runs.
However,at this Stage Warner played a ball forward straight touching the bat&rising in
the air .Dhoni from behind made no mistake in making a running catch to marrk the end of
warner in the 48th over of the innings.Ravindra Jadeja was the striker.Warner had made a
hard earned71 with 9 hits to the fence.
Michael Clarke ,the Captain joined Cowan in the middle but fell to the next ball from
jadeja playing advancing from the crease&again Dhoni made no mistake in stumping before the Australian could retrieve his crease.
The untimely&unexpected wicket marked the beginning of the end of the AQustralian innings.
PJ Hughes who joined Cowan took the score to a reasonable 151 when he in the 50th over
was removed by Dhonicaught behind to a good ball from Pragyan Ojha.
The score card read 151 for 3 wickets.
Desperate Australians struggled when EJM Cowan was the next casuality at the score of
198 for 4.A good ball from R.Aswin, the destroyer at Chennai,was taken by Virat Kohli who was very much on the alert.
This took the procession of wicketfalling to 198/4.
The Australian started sweating in the heat generatyed by the overnight rain.
But then SPD Smith&man in glows Haddin had taken rthe score to a fair position when Haddin fell to a ball from Ishant Sharma which uprooted his stump to lead the score to244/5
Yet another strike in the same manner after the gap of one ball found the stump of
MC Henriques uprooted.The score card read 244 for 6.
Thus the double strike from Ishant Sharma again had the effect of Australias Entering the Dragon when Peter Siddle balso fell at 251 on the boardfor the loss of 7 wickets
in the 99th over.
The match had started earlier to compensate for te wash out on the first day.
Australians continued tio struggle until stumps after playing 6 more overs.
At the close the score card read 273 for loss of 7 wickets.
SPD Smith on 58 with 7 glorious hits to the fence remained not out for the day with
MA Starc playing a supporting role with 20 runs to his credit
Tomorrow is yet another day!.Unless Australia makes a score of over 350 runs in the first innings ,a repeat of the preceding Tests can not be totally ruled out at Mohali also as the loss of one day does not seems to affect Indians too badly.
All the Best to Australians mainly&also to Indians tomorrow.
SreedharanMundanat
15th March2013
17-03Hrs(IST)
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