First Day First Test India Australia Border-Gavaskar Trophy!
Watch the proceedings of the Second Day First Test India Australia Border-Gavaskar Trophy!
Here we comes. The first test between the two champion teams India (The T 20 World Champions) and Australia (The ODI World Champions and Test World Champions) is started today at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. Toss was won by Australia and they decided to bat first. With a bad start the skipper Ponting and Katich took control of the situation. Aussies lost the very first wicket in the form of Hayden, in the very first over of Zaheer Khan.
Finally the proceedings of the day one is over, Zaheer Khan strikes in the very first over as well as in the very last over of the day. Aussies made 254 runs with the loss of 4 wickets. Skipper Ponting is at his career best in India, he made 123.
Live Score: Australia 254/4 (89.2 Overs) Hussey 46*, MJ Clarke 1, Ponting 123 , Katich 66, Hayden 0, Extras 8
So it is the team time for the first day of the play. During two sessions of the play Australia made 166 runs with the loss of two wickets. We will have to check the third session of the day, if Indian bowlers can do a bit of magic then they can make a come back in the match, otherwise the Aussies will have a upper hand.
Finally after a long gap Ishant Sharma strikes and the partnership of Katich and Ponting breaks. Katich departs after making 66.
The teams are as follows:
Australia: Hayden, Katich, Ponting, Hussey, MJ Clarke, CL White, SR Watson, Haddin, B Lee, MG Johnson, SR Clark
India: G Gambhir, V Sehwag, R Dravid, SR Tendulkar, SC Ganguly, VVS Laxman, MS Dhoni, Anil Kumble, Harbhajan Singh, Z Khan, I Sharma