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Day 2 : Pratap & Pathan swing surprise search'of 17th


Rudra-Perth-Third.jpg This is no time to relax. Experience of Indian boys & character of younger lot has just began to surprise home team (Australia) who are on the verge of rewriting history - 17 test match wins in a row!

It's time to dominate. By finishing Australian first innings exactly in 50 overs, and compiling a lead of 170 runs with 9 wickets in hand - Indian team has done well on just another day in a 5 day game. They're yet to register any outright win or smile/pose with a trophy on current Australian trip 2008.. something they're very capable of!

4 wickets fell for 3 runs = end of India's first Innings. 330 they made, and 50 minutes to Lunch still remained. So - two small Australians openers began their first innings. At Lunch - scorecard read 22/3 in 8 overs. Two special wickets to Irfan Pathan whose 'Banana Swing' revisited, whereas Rudra Pratap brought Michael Hussey's wicket who was looking to off-drive on the up to get off the mark!

Captain Ricky Ponting & Michael Clarke survived next 8 deliveries as players left for lunch on Day 2!

Waca ground in Perth always has strong breeze, troubling every bowlers who runs in to bowl into it. Today - there was none. Result - first Irfan Pathan & then Ishant Sharma easily ran in to bowl sharp & test out the Australian top batting order. Temperature of 40 degrees too had no effect on rejuvenated Indian bowlers.

Captain Anil Kumble waited patiently & admired every wicket his young pace trio were bringing to him. And when it was time to break Symonds-Gilchrist partnership or polishing off the tail - he brought himself on. and got his 600th test match wicket in the process.

India vs Australia : 3rd test match, Perth : end of Day 2 scores
India 1st Inn : 330 all out in 98.2 overs Aus 1st Inn : 212 all out in 50 overs
Jaffer 16, Sehwag 29, Ganguly 9, Rogers 4, Jaques 8, Ponting 20
Dravid 93(183), Tendulkar 71(128) Hussey 0, Clarke 23, Symonds 66(70),
Laxman 27, Dhoni 19, Pathan 28 Gilchrist 55. Rudra 4/68, Pathan 2/63
India 2nd Inn : 52/1 in 11 overs. Sehwag 29*(36) and Pathan 2* at the crease
Indians are 170 runs ahead on 2nd innings with 3 more day to go..


Day 2 Notes
** Temperature at Perth, as I said, was very high - around 40 degrees and thus the umpires has decided for 3 drinks intervals (every 40 minutes) in every session of play.
**Anil Kumble became just the 3rd bowler in history to test cricket to take 600 wickets. Shane Warne & Muralitharan ae the other two. Kumble, India's highest wicket taker, also holds the record for most caught and bowled dismissals - 32 of'em. Kumble's combination with Dravid at slips has fetched 54 wickets for India (2nd bext by any fielder-bowler combination).
**Michael Hussey scored his first test duck (0) whereas Dhoni pouched 5 catches behind the wicket to become only the 7th indian to do so.




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