Indians claimed five crucial wickets, as Australia required another 375 runs for victory on Day five of the second Test. Michael Clarke anHarbhajan Singh reacts after dismissing Australian Matthew Hayden on the fourth day of the second Test in Mohali on Monday. d Brad Haddin denied India any more breakthroughs after Harbhajan Singh and Ishant Sharma reduced Australia to 58/5.
At stumps on Day four, Australia, chasing a mammoth victory target of 516 runs, were reeling at 141/5 with Clarke (42) and Haddin (37) at the crease. Both have added 83 runs for the sixth wicket.
Both Clarke and Haddin have played the Indian spinners well, mixing caution with aggression and have also used their feet well not only when they have charged down the pitch but also they needed to go back on the backfoot.
Lanky pacer Ishant Sharma joined the party with off-spinner Harbhajan Singh as he produced a gem of a delivery to send back Shane Watson to pavilion after contributing just two runs. Ishant's scorcher trapped Watson in front of the wicket to reduce Australia to 58/5.
Harbhajan had a great tea as he came back to dismiss Michael Hussey for one. Hussey tried to pull the delivery that stayed low and was trapped plumb in front of the wicket.
Ishant ably supported Harbhajan as he cleaned up Ricky Ponting (2) in the very next over to leave Australia in tatters.
Ishant's came up with a superb delivery that came in sharply and went through the gap between bat and pad of the Australian captain. This is the fifth time that Ishant has dismissed Ponting in as many innings.
Harbhajan Singh claimed two wickets before tea in one over to rock Australia on the fourth day of the second Test against India in Mohali. Australia, chasing a mammoth victory target of 516 runs, got off to an excellent start as openers Matthew Hayden and Simon Katich scored at more than six runs per over.
Both Hayden and Katich carted the Indian bowlers to all parts of the ground with Zaheer conceding 32 runs in his eight overs and Ishant Sharma giving away 17 runs off his three. That forced captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni to bring Harbhajan in the attack, who struck on his second ball of his first over as Hayden (29) tried to sweep but was trapped plumb in front of the wicket.
Harbhajan struck again on the last delivery of the same over when Katich (20) edged to backward point where Sachin Tendulkar dived forward to take an excellent catch. At tea, Australia were 50/2 needing 466 more runs to win.
Earlier, India declared with a lead of 515 runs leaving Australia with a victory target of 516 runs on the fourth day of the second Test against Australia. India declared their second innings at 314/3 with Dhoni (68) and Sachin Tendulkar (10) remaining not out.
Dhoni and Sourav Ganguly carried on from where Gambhir and Sehwag had left and added 66 runs for the third wicket.
Dhoni hit his 11th Test fifty off just 61 balls and became only the third wicket-keeper batsman and captain to make half-centuries in both the innings of a Test. The first two are joined Andy Flower and Tatenda Taibu.
Dhoni, who came up the order at number three, hit three fours and a six in his knock, while Sachin hit one four.
Ganguly got out while trying to up the ante and mistimed a hit off Brett Lee high up in the air for Michael Clarke to take the catch in the covers. Ganguly hit two fours in his 37-ball knock 27.
Indian opener Gautam Gambhir slammed his second Test century as India extended their lead to 431 runs against Australia at lunch on the fourth day of the second Test in Mohali.
Gambhir completed his century shortly before lunch by flicking a full toss from Cameron White to the mid-wicket fence. But soon after, Gambhir (104) mistimed a hit to mid-off for Michael Hussey to take a simple catch.
Sourav Ganguly was promoted up the order perhaps to keep the right-left combination running. At lunch, India were 230/2 with Mahendra Singh Dhoni (26) and Ganguly (3) at the crease.
Sehwag missed his century as he edged a leg-cutter by Peter Siddle to keeper Brad Haddin for the catch. Sehwag failed to build on the birthday gift that he received by umpire Asad Rauf who gave him not out when edged a Mitchell Johnson delivery to Haddin on 88.
Sehwag and Gambhir continued to inflict misery on Australia after India started the fourth day's play of the second Test in Mohali holding the advantage having a second innings lead of 301 runs with ten wickets in hand.
Sehwag and Gambhir, who gave India a superb start on Day three hitting 100 runs resumed the second innings with one expecting India to pile on the runs quickly and declare with enough time on their hands to bowl out Australia and clinch victory.
Though he was tentative in the beginning, Gambhir soon regained his touch and reached his eighth Test fifty.
Australian captain Ricky Ponting was defensive from the word go and had fielders guarding the boundaries. But that didn't stop Sehwag from keeping the scorecard ticking as he was either hitting over the top or taking quick singles keeping the Aussies on tenterhooks. The Delhi opening pair took the Indian lead over 350 runs at a brisk run rate of over four and a half runs per over.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Australia 141/5 at stumps on Day 4, need 375 runs
Source:indiatimes.com
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