- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR77.6 finally Cowan is caught. Finally Kohli holds one. And finally Ashwin gets reward for some superb bowling today. Again tossed up nicely, dipping on Cowan, who defends from the crease. The ball pitches full around middle and off, then turns away, takes the edge, and Kohli swallows the sitter at slip 198/447.5 Jadeja strikes for India. This selection from Dhoni and co keeps on working. Warner wants to leave the crease in defence, but for some reason restrains his forward movement. Consequently he is not quite to the pitch of the ball, which bounces a little extra, hits the inside edge and then the top of the pad to lob up for an easy catch for Dhoni to run down the pitch and take 139/147.6 Jadeja is on a hat-trick. And he has comprehensively beaten Clarke with his last two balls. That is as comprehensive as they come. Clarke is again unsure with his forward movement, Jadeja rips across one big offbreak, which lands on off, short of his reach, and turns across the bat. Clarke has been dragged outside the crease too. And Dhoni is super quick with the stumping 139/259.3 Hughes is gone. This was a freight train coming. Short of a length, middle and leg, turns and bounces sharply down the leg side, Hughes is late in withdrawing the glove, and Dhoni is sharp with the deflection. Hughes against spin: last 70 balls, two runs, out five times 151/3124.1 he has been given out stumped without the help of the third umpire. Very well bowled by Ojha. Goes wide of the crease, angles this in, makes him play. The ball pitches on middle and off, and short of where he expects it to, this dragging him more forward than he wants to. The ball turns across the bat, Dhoni is quick, and the stumping is made. Smith is on the line. That's a close call to make without looking at the replay. Another Aussie falls just short of a hundred 348/893.1 "Unlucky" Ishant gets a lucky break. Short, wide, Haddin tries to dab this fine behind square, the ball stays a touch low, takes the bottom edge, and rattles the stumps 244/593.3 Ishant is on a roll now. This is a proper bowler's wicket. Length ball, short of a driving length, but not too short. Henriques defends forward, but it reverses in to hit the pad, and then the stumps 244/698.1 and the first ball of the bonus overs has taken the wicket. Full, really full, pitches middle and leg, holds its line, hits the inside half of the pad. Kettleborough takes his time before raising the finger. And after he has been given out lbw, Kohli seems to be suggesting he had caught it too. No, Virat, you are not getting that catch against your name 251/7138.5 oh he is gone on 99. How disappointing, but Starc can manage a bit of a smile when he walks back. He has been nervous this over. Length ball, on off, he drives at it, gets a healthy edge, and Dhoni dives to his left to take the catch. The Australian dressing room looks dejected, Starc looks to hide that disappointment with that smile. That's a heartbreak. Gone for his first-class best 399/9141.5 India will have to bat before lunch. Tossed up on middle and leg, holds its line a bit, hits him in front of leg. Did it straighten enough? I don't think so, but he has been given 408/10Extras23 (b 8, lb 12, nb 3)TOTAL408 all out (141.5 Overs, RR: 2.87, 532 minutes)Fall of wickets: 1-139 (David Warner, 47.5 ov), 2-139 (Michael Clarke, 47.6 ov), 3-151 (Phillip Hughes, 59.3 ov), 4-198 (Ed Cowan, 77.6 ov), 5-244 (Brad Haddin, 93.1 ov), 6-244 (Moises Henriques, 93.3 ov), 7-251 (Peter Siddle, 98.1 ov), 8-348 (Steven Smith, 124.1 ov), 9-399 (Mitchell Starc, 138.5 ov), 10-408 (Xavier Doherty, 141.5 ov)
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR101.1 finally Starc swings the ball on this tour and gets him an lbw. Vijay has not seen the ball swing all series and he pads up to a length ball on middle. The ball shapes back in, hits him on the knee roll in front of middle. Easy decision. Starc shakes Vijay's hand before he goes off 412/459.5 what a soft way to get out and fall out short of 200. Clarke has just seen him jab at balls and pushed one of the covers to silly point. He pushes hard in defence at a length ball, and Cowan takes the catch at silly point. Off the middle of the bat. Almost like a sweet dream is over for Dhawan. Added just two today, but what a knock this has been. Vijay shakes his hand before he walks off the field 289/162.6 lovely bowling. Australia have come back strong this morning, although Pujara might have a thing or two to say about this decision when he gets into the sheds. Full, swinging in towards off, Pujara doesn't cover it well, is caught dead in front, but he has also got an inside edge on this one. Umpire Aleem Dar hasn't seen the edge, and has given him 292/294.1 Smith gets a wicket first up. Tendulkar falls just before lunch. He had pulled the shutters down long ago, but he won;t be there to bat on the other side of lunch. Nice delivery, though. On a length, dips a little, Tendulkar pushes forward in defence, doesn't quite reach it, the ball turns and bounces, and goes off the glove to short leg 384/3101.4 Starc is swinging it. Oh boy just imagine if he had been swinging it all series long. This is dangerous stuff. Dhoni walks down to negate the swing, but this low full toss swings past the inside edge and hits him low and in front 416/5104.5 Jadeja is gone. Siddle does the old 1-2. Outswinger followed by scrambled seam and the angle to take the ball away. Jadeja is unsure and he follows it, and edges it through to Haddin. Siddle has more wickets than O'Reilly now 427/6106.5 bowled with a scrambled seam. On a length, just outside off, holds its line. Ashwin drives at it, takes a thin edge through to the keeper 431/7129.6 good short ball. Dug in just short of a length, it nips back in and rises towards the rib cage. Bhuvneshwar is slow to take the glove out of the way. Haddin accepts the chance with glee 492/8130.6 Sharma goes. An uncharacteristic push at one outside off, and edges it through to Haddin. Siddle has four now. Kohli doesn't look pleased with Sharma's effort 493/9132.1 bursts through his defence to complete a five-for. Full, pitches middle and off, straightens a touch, hits the pad, and then the stumps. He was lbw before he was bowled, but the bowled takes precedence in these dismissals 499/10Extras19 (b 5, lb 13, nb 1)TOTAL499 all out (132.1 Overs, RR: 3.77, 547 minutes)Fall of wickets: 1-289 (Shikhar Dhawan, 59.5 ov), 2-292 (Cheteshwar Pujara, 62.6 ov), 3-384 (Sachin Tendulkar, 94.1 ov), 4-412 (Murali Vijay, 101.1 ov), 5-416 (MS Dhoni, 101.4 ov), 6-427 (Ravindra Jadeja, 104.5 ov), 7-431 (Ravichandran Ashwin, 106.5 ov), 8-492 (Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 129.6 ov), 9-493 (Ishant Sharma, 130.6 ov), 10-499 (Pragyan Ojha, 132.1 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB MA Starc 23 5 74 2 3.21 0 0 PM Siddle 29.1 9 71 5 2.43 0 1 MC Henriques 15 1 62 1 4.13 0 0 NM Lyon 31 4 124 1 4.00 0 0 XJ Doherty 24 8 87 0 3.62 0 0 SPD Smith 10 0 63 1 6.30 0 0
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR0.3 doesn't matter whether the previous edge carried or not. Warner has played a horrible shot next ball to make amends for India. Short, widish, he throws his arms at it, and edges it through to the keeper. No ffet there 2/17.5 Cowan has been given. Bhuvneshwar gets a second, but this one seems to have pitched outside leg, plus Cowan has got a big stride in. This is slightly harsh, I think. He walks down the track, misses a length ball, but it has pitched half-half - half on the mat, half outside - and it still has a long way to go. Kettleborough is the umpire 35/248.3 that looks like a bad decision. Easily missing the leg stump. Short of a length, middle and leg, doesn't straighten enough. Given. A strange one from Dar. Even the impact was possibly outside leg 123/613.5 that's a beauty. The off stump has been flattened. Smith plays for the inswinger, and it looks like an inswinger as it leaves the hand. Shaping in, it pitches in front of off, and then after pitching it holds its line to beat the outside edge and knocks the off pole over 55/327.6 Ojha's persistence pays off. Lyon goes with Australia still two runs in arrears. He has been varying that pace superbly. Bowl this one slower in the air, gets a bit of a dip, Lyon ends up pushing in front of the body. The ball turns and takes a slight edge through to the gloves of Dhoni 89/445.6 Jadeja has got Clarke again. Fifth time this series. He gets a full dart into the pads, looks to flick it, gets an inside edge onto the pad, and Pujara claims an easy catch at short leg. All Saurashtra dismissal. Jadeja has got Clarke five out of six times 119/571.1 carrom ball. Gets the breakthrough. Very well bowled. The legbreak at 90ks, pitches middle and leg, Haddin hasn't picked it, has his outside edge beaten, and is hit plumb in front. This is not a tailender; he has done Haddin in with the carrom ball 179/951.1 Jadeja takes a blinder. He is on absolute fire. Length ball, on off, played uppishly well to the left of Jadeja who dives full length to take this with both hands. That's a superb catch 126/754.6 timbahhh. Superb delivery. Slows this one down, pitches on off, short of his defensive prod, then turns past the edge to knock the off stump over 143/889.2 fittingly Jadeja finishes off the innings. He has been a revelation this series. Gets this to turn ina dn bounce a little extra, takes the inside edge onto the pad, and Ashwin takes a one-hander at backward short leg 223/10Extras5 (lb 3, nb 1, w 1)TOTAL223 all out (89.2 Overs, RR: 2.49, 310 minutes)Fall of wickets: 1-2 (David Warner, 0.3 ov), 2-35 (Ed Cowan, 7.5 ov), 3-55 (Steven Smith, 13.5 ov), 4-89 (Nathan Lyon, 27.6 ov), 5-119 (Michael Clarke, 45.6 ov), 6-123 (Phillip Hughes, 48.3 ov), 7-126 (Moises Henriques, 51.1 ov), 8-143 (Peter Siddle, 54.6 ov), 9-179 (Brad Haddin, 71.1 ov), 10-223 (Mitchell Starc, 89.2 ov)
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR9.2 Doherty gets the reward. Although it was Pujara he should have had last over. Vijay is down the track, makes room, wants to go over extra, but is beaten by the dip and turn, and Haddin makes no mistake 42/118.2 flat, short of a length, Pujara looks to whip this to leg, the ball stays a little low and hits hits him in front of off. Plumb there 70/226.4 Siddle produces the breakthrough. India still have some way to go. Siddle gets this to swing in towards off, Kohli is a little early into the clip, hits it to short midwicket 103/332.1 Tendulkar is gone. Australia stay alive. Australia are fighting. Tendulkar walks across and down, is beaten by the swing, but he gets the leg-bye. The ball, though, has gone nowhere, and Warner swoops in from short cover. Tendulkar is not even in the vicinity 116/4Extras1 (w 1)TOTAL136/4 (33.3 Overs, RR: 4.05, 161 minutes)Fall of wickets: 1-42 (Murali Vijay, 9.2 ov), 2-70 (Cheteshwar Pujara, 18.2 ov), 3-103 (Virat Kohli, 26.4 ov), 4-116 (Sachin Tendulkar, 32.1 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB MA Starc 10.3 1 51 0 4.85 1 0 PM Siddle 11 2 34 1 3.09 0 0 NM Lyon 5 0 27 1 5.40 0 0 XJ Doherty 7 2 24 1 3.42 0 0
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- Thu, 14 Mar - day 1 - no play
- Fri, 15 Mar - day 2 - Australia 1st innings 273/7 (SPD Smith 58*, MA Starc 20*, 104 ov)
- Sat, 16 Mar - day 3 - India 1st innings 283/0 (M Vijay 83*, S Dhawan 185*, 58 ov)
- Sun, 17 Mar - day 4 - Australia 2nd innings 75/3 (PJ Hughes 53*, NM Lyon 4*, 21 ov)
- Mon, 18 Mar - day 5 - India 2nd innings 136/4 (33.3 ov) - end of match
Match Notes
- Australia: 100 runs in 31.3 overs (190 balls), Extras 3
- Drinks: Australia - 119/5 in 46.0 overs (PJ Hughes 65)
- Australia: 150 runs in 58.1 overs (350 balls), Extras 3
- Lunch: Australia - 170/8 in 67.0 overs (BJ Haddin 23, MA Starc 9)
- New Ball Taken: Australia 197/9 after 81.1 overs (MA Starc 24, XJ Doherty 4)
- Australia: 200 runs in 82.4 overs (497 balls), Extras 4
- Drinks: Australia - 211/9 in 85.0 overs (MA Starc 27, XJ Doherty 14)
- Innings Break: Australia - 223/10 in 89.2 overs (XJ Doherty 18)
- India 2nd innings
- Tea: India - 30/0 in 7.0 overs (M Vijay 19, CA Pujara 10)
- India: 50 runs in 13.2 overs (80 balls), Extras 1
- Drinks: India - 88/2 in 21.0 overs (V Kohli 22, SR Tendulkar 11)
- India: 100 runs in 25.2 overs (152 balls), Extras 1
- India: 300 runs in 65.1 overs (392 balls), Extras 15
- M Vijay: 100 off 206 balls (12 x 4, 2 x 6)
- Drinks: India - 339/2 in 77.0 overs (M Vijay 116, SR Tendulkar 20)
- 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 87 balls (M Vijay 31, SR Tendulkar 21, Ex 0)
- India: 350 runs in 80.2 overs (483 balls), Extras 15
- Lunch: India - 384/3 in 94.1 overs (M Vijay 142)
- India: 400 runs in 99.6 overs (601 balls), Extras 17
- M Vijay: 150 off 315 balls (19 x 4, 3 x 6)
- New Ball Taken: India 412/3 after 101.1 overs (M Vijay 153, V Kohli 17)
- Drinks: India - 431/7 in 109.0 overs (V Kohli 19, B Kumar 0)
- India: 450 runs in 117.6 overs (709 balls), Extras 18
- Tea: India - 479/7 in 125.0 overs (V Kohli 50, B Kumar 17)
- V Kohli: 50 off 108 balls (5 x 4, 1 x 6)
- 8th Wicket: 50 runs in 110 balls (V Kohli 35, B Kumar 17, Ex 0)
- Innings Break: India - 499/10 in 132.1 overs (V Kohli 67)
- Australia 2nd innings
- Australia: 50 runs in 11.2 overs (69 balls), Extras 2
- PJ Hughes: 50 off 50 balls (9 x 4, 1 x 6)
- End Of Day: Australia - 75/3 in 21.0 overs (PJ Hughes 53, NM Lyon 4)
- New Ball Taken: Australia 291/7 after 108.1 overs (SPD Smith 66, MA Starc 30)
- Australia: 300 runs in 109.4 overs (661 balls), Extras 15
- 8th Wicket: 50 runs in 69 balls (SPD Smith 16, MA Starc 34, Ex 0)
- MA Starc: 50 off 86 balls (7 x 4)
- Drinks: Australia - 348/8 in 124.1 overs (MA Starc 56)
- Australia: 350 runs in 126.3 overs (762 balls), Extras 20
- 9th Wicket: 50 runs in 78 balls (MA Starc 42, NM Lyon 5, Ex 3)
- Australia: 400 runs in 139.3 overs (840 balls), Extras 23
- Innings Break: Australia - 408/10 in 141.5 overs (NM Lyon 9)
- India 1st innings
- Lunch: India - 3/0 in 1.0 overs (M Vijay 3, S Dhawan 0)
- India: 50 runs in 14.1 overs (85 balls), Extras 0
- 1st Wicket: 50 runs in 85 balls (M Vijay 17, S Dhawan 36, Ex 0)
- Drinks: India - 57/0 in 15.0 overs (M Vijay 17, S Dhawan 40)
- S Dhawan: 50 off 50 balls (12 x 4)
- India: 100 runs in 21.4 overs (130 balls), Extras 0
- 1st Wicket: 100 runs in 130 balls (M Vijay 35, S Dhawan 65, Ex 0)
- S Dhawan: 100 off 85 balls (21 x 4)
- India: 150 runs in 27.5 overs (167 balls), Extras 7
- 1st Wicket: 150 runs in 167 balls (M Vijay 41, S Dhawan 105, Ex 7)
- Tea: India - 156/0 in 29.0 overs (M Vijay 42, S Dhawan 106)
- M Vijay: 50 off 103 balls (5 x 4, 2 x 6)
- India: 200 runs in 40.5 overs (246 balls), Extras 13
- 1st Wicket: 200 runs in 246 balls (M Vijay 57, S Dhawan 130, Ex 13)
- Drinks: India - 211/0 in 43.0 overs (M Vijay 62, S Dhawan 136)
- S Dhawan: 150 off 131 balls (29 x 4, 1 x 6)
- India: 250 runs in 49.5 overs (300 balls), Extras 13
- 1st Wicket: 250 runs in 300 balls (M Vijay 71, S Dhawan 169, Ex 13)
- End Of Day: India - 283/0 in 58.0 overs (M Vijay 83, S Dhawan 185)
- Australia: 50 runs in 17.3 overs (108 balls), Extras 7
- 1st Wicket: 50 runs in 108 balls (EJM Cowan 13, DA Warner 32, Ex 7)
- Australia: 100 runs in 33.5 overs (206 balls), Extras 12
- 1st Wicket: 100 runs in 206 balls (EJM Cowan 42, DA Warner 46, Ex 12)
- DA Warner: 50 off 105 balls (7 x 4)
- Lunch: Australia - 109/0 in 36.0 overs (EJM Cowan 43, DA Warner 54)
- EJM Cowan: 50 off 119 balls (6 x 4)
- Drinks: Australia - 145/2 in 55.0 overs (EJM Cowan 62, PJ Hughes 0)
- Australia: 150 runs in 58.5 overs (356 balls), Extras 12
- Tea: Australia - 180/3 in 72.0 overs (EJM Cowan 76, SPD Smith 19)
- Australia: 200 runs in 78.6 overs (477 balls), Extras 12
- Drinks: Australia - 237/4 in 90.0 overs (SPD Smith 45, BJ Haddin 18)
- SPD Smith: 50 off 111 balls (6 x 4, 1 x 6)
- Australia: 250 runs in 97.2 overs (587 balls), Extras 15
- End Of Day: Australia - 273/7 in 104.0 overs (SPD Smith 58, MA Starc 20)
- Australia 1st innings
- No Play
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