Australia win the Border-Gavaskar Trophy with 1 Test remaining! A comprehensive effort again by the home side and they have managed to beat the Indian team within 2 and a half days. India's overseas woes continue as their slump to their seventh straight loss. The Kangaroos might well go for the whitewash now in Adelaide
Australia have humbled India by an
innings and 37 runs in the third Test
in Perth to clinch the four-Test series.
The hosts lead 3-0.
It all happened in a flash!
Over 63.2: Kohli c Haddin b Siddle (75) It's all over! Kohli, who just a while ago looked set to get a hundred, nicked one to Haddin behind the stumps.
Over 62.1: Kumar c Clarke b Hilfenhaus (6) Good length delivery seaming away after landing. Vinay tries to glance it but gets a thick outside edge which flies to Michael Clarke at first slip who pounces a easy catch in front of his head.
Ryan Harris split a stubborn stand between Virat Kohli and Rahul Dravid before Peter Siddle nicked out MS Dhoni, as Australia closed on a series victory over India at lunch. The visitors were 6 for 165 at the interval, still 43 runs short of making Australia bat again
Australia's fast bowlers completed an innings-and-37-run destruction of India minutes after lunch on day three of the third Test, snatching the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in the most emphatic style imaginable. Ryan Harris split a stubborn stand between Virat Kohli and Rahul Dravid before Peter Siddle nicked out MS Dhoni in the shadows of the interval, and Ben Hilfenhaus razed the tail with three wickets in five balls on resumption.
Siddle found Kohli's outside edge to complete proceedings, heralding the start of rich celebrations for the hosts following victory over opponents who never came to terms with the challenges posed by Australia's bowlers and conditions. The performance of the match was by a home batsman however, and it was a measure of the Man-of-the-Match David Warner's 180 that India's batsmen fell short of his individual tally in each innings.
His efforts gave the pace ensemble a chance to squeeze India, and all the bowlers contributed in another strikingly even performance. Harris will bowl far worse and claim five wickets rather than the one he plucked in the second innings, while Siddle and Hilfenhaus maintained their outstanding marriage of pressure and late movement. Mitchell Starc, of course, had made two critical breaks on the second evening.
Dravid and Kohli provided the staunchest Indian batting resistance of the match in a union of 84, but were never completely in control against Harris, who deservedly found a way past Dravid towards the end of an exacting spell. Siddle's dismissal of Dhoni was a familiar sight, the captain's edge snapped up by Ricky Ponting in the cordon.
Kohli's innings was a beacon of hope for India's future, demonstrating strong technique and a stronger mind to cope with Australia's bowling that did not flag in considerable heat. Following up a similarly composed 44 in the first innings, it may warrant a promotion in the batting order for Adelaide.
Resuming at 4 for 88, still 120 short of going into credit, Dravid and Kohli had plenty of testing moments in the opening overs. Harris' first two deliveries of the day did everything but bowl Dravid, angling in and seaming away, while at the other end Hilfenhaus swung the ball tantalisingly away with the help of a south-westerly breeze.
Lunch came and went, Kohli still harbouring the desire to reach a century. But Hilfenhaus was not in a mood to countenance charity. Bashing the ball in short of a length, he had Vinay Kumar and Zaheer Khan fencing to Michael Clarke at slip in consecutive balls, and while Ishant Sharma survived the hat-trick delivery, he fended his third straight to Ed Cowan at short leg.
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| Warner's century dominated in Perth |
innings and 37 runs in the third Test
in Perth to clinch the four-Test series.
The hosts lead 3-0.
It all happened in a flash!
Over 63.2: Kohli c Haddin b Siddle (75) It's all over! Kohli, who just a while ago looked set to get a hundred, nicked one to Haddin behind the stumps.
Over 62.5: Ishant c Cowan b Hilfenhaus (0) Bouncer at Sharma's body who looks to flick it off the hips. Instead, he mistimes and the ball lobs up to Cowan at short leg for a lolly.
Over 62.2: Zaheer c Clarke b Hilfenhaus (0) Hilfenhaus hurls in a snorter first up to Zaheer at head height who tries to fend at it. Gets the outside edge which flies between Haddin and Clarke. Here is the moment of magic. Haddin had dived full length to pounce at that blocking Clarke's view and he misses it. But Clarke, alert enough to judge the direction of the ball plucks a wonderful catch.
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| Ben Hilfenhaus picked up eight wickets in the match |
Ryan Harris split a stubborn stand between Virat Kohli and Rahul Dravid before Peter Siddle nicked out MS Dhoni, as Australia closed on a series victory over India at lunch. The visitors were 6 for 165 at the interval, still 43 runs short of making Australia bat again
Australia's fast bowlers completed an innings-and-37-run destruction of India minutes after lunch on day three of the third Test, snatching the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in the most emphatic style imaginable. Ryan Harris split a stubborn stand between Virat Kohli and Rahul Dravid before Peter Siddle nicked out MS Dhoni in the shadows of the interval, and Ben Hilfenhaus razed the tail with three wickets in five balls on resumption.
Siddle found Kohli's outside edge to complete proceedings, heralding the start of rich celebrations for the hosts following victory over opponents who never came to terms with the challenges posed by Australia's bowlers and conditions. The performance of the match was by a home batsman however, and it was a measure of the Man-of-the-Match David Warner's 180 that India's batsmen fell short of his individual tally in each innings.
His efforts gave the pace ensemble a chance to squeeze India, and all the bowlers contributed in another strikingly even performance. Harris will bowl far worse and claim five wickets rather than the one he plucked in the second innings, while Siddle and Hilfenhaus maintained their outstanding marriage of pressure and late movement. Mitchell Starc, of course, had made two critical breaks on the second evening.
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| Australia after winning the Border-Gavaskar Trophy |
Kohli's innings was a beacon of hope for India's future, demonstrating strong technique and a stronger mind to cope with Australia's bowling that did not flag in considerable heat. Following up a similarly composed 44 in the first innings, it may warrant a promotion in the batting order for Adelaide.
Resuming at 4 for 88, still 120 short of going into credit, Dravid and Kohli had plenty of testing moments in the opening overs. Harris' first two deliveries of the day did everything but bowl Dravid, angling in and seaming away, while at the other end Hilfenhaus swung the ball tantalisingly away with the help of a south-westerly breeze.
Kohli was the more assured of the batting duo, collecting his runs quietly with ones and twos, reining in his most aggressive tendencies in a struggle for survival against bowling that offered precious little latitude.
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| Ryan Harris celebrates dismissing Rahul Dravid |
Harris, in particular, posed question after question, taking advantage of a crack on a length at the Lillee-Marsh Stand end to bring the ball sharply back into Kohli and Dravid. Dravid was late to react to some subtle inswing, the ball swerving between bat and pad to send leg stump cartwheeling. Dravid shuffled off, bowled five times in six innings during the series.
Dhoni's technique has been found similarly wanting, and once again he would edge tamely into the cordon. Siddle's delivery was full, fast and swinging, and Ponting's hands at second slipwere alert and safe. Nevertheless, the dismissal was another grim reflection on the batting of Dhoni, who has always struggled to replicate his subcontinental run-scoring on foreign shores.
Lunch came and went, Kohli still harbouring the desire to reach a century. But Hilfenhaus was not in a mood to countenance charity. Bashing the ball in short of a length, he had Vinay Kumar and Zaheer Khan fencing to Michael Clarke at slip in consecutive balls, and while Ishant Sharma survived the hat-trick delivery, he fended his third straight to Ed Cowan at short leg.
Umesh Yadav survived one ball to give Kohli the strike, but Siddle probed the perfect line and length once more to coax a touch behind and seal a series that has been more lopsided than anyone can have imagined.
1 comment:
I watched all three tests.Indians didn't have that fighting spirit.Very lazy and seniors doing just the wrong job.Instead of encouraging youngsters they where slowing things down.I can't believe the way Laxman behaves in the field.Club cricketers are more active.Selectors are trying to respect seniors.Well,seniors did well.Now its time to open doors for youngsters.Presence of these tired,out of form and lazy seniors actually supresss the spirit of youngsters.Remember T20 worldcup.All where fresh and young.Didn't have seniors influence.They had the freedom to play and they did triumph.
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