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Day 4 : Aus ahead : India patient : Draw favorite


Hayden-Ponting-Hussey.jpg What started with innovative/attacking cricket from visitors, ended up giving momentum to home team. Rain played her part, took off 12 overs out of Day 4 of this Sydney test match and weather report for Day 5 suggests almost the same.

Captain Kumble employed off:on = 8:2 and 9:1 field setting to dry up runs for Hayden-Jaques who had got away with a bright opening partnership. before first rain break - around an hour mark - australia scored 17 runs from 10 overs. 17 mins were lost which also allowed batsmen to rethink their strategy. Mathew Hayden's answer - reverse sweep!

Strong man that he is, continued his love affair with Indian bowling and scored 2nd century of this test series. Ponting was out for 1, again to Harbhajan. dying to spend some time in the middle, he played the part of runner trick australia used for Hayden (claiming he had some back pain).

Michael Hussey played the ball late, adjusted well and remained not-out at the end of Day 4. Clarke made another first ball duck but Andrew Symonds negotiated 36 deliveries to remain unbeaten.

No less than 4 times rain intrupted and bad light forced an early finish to the days proceedings..

India vs Australia : 2nd test, Sydney : 2-6 Jan, 2007-08 series
Aus 1st Inn : 463 all out (112.2 overs) India 1st Inn : 532 all out (138.2 overs)
Ponting 55, Hussey 41, Symonds 162 Jaffer 3, Dravid 53, Laxman 109,
Hogg 79, Lee 59, Johnson 28 Ganguly 67, Sachin 154* (243b, 14x4 1x6)
Aus 2nd Inn : 282/4 in 83 overs Yuvraj 12, Dhoni 2, Kumble 2, Bhajji 63
Hayden 123 (196), Jaques 42, Ricky 1 Rudra 13, Ishant 23, Lee 32.2-5-119-5
Clarke 1, Hussey 87*, Symonds 38* India took 1st innings lead of 69
Australia lead by 213 runs with 90 overs (1 day) to go..


NOTES
-Highest 4th innings winning chase at Sydney, is by Australia, 288 for 2 against South Africa just over Hayden-Ponting-Hussey.jpg an year ago. the average 4th innings score by all teams at Sydney is just over 235!
-Anil Kumble now has over a hundered wickets against Australia. Phil Jacques was his 100th Aussie Victim. He's the only Indian bowler to achieve that feet, whereas Harbhajan Singh is 3rd in the list with 62 wickets.
-Ricky Ponting got out to Harbhajan Singh for the 8th time in his career. He averages only 7.25 against Bhajji but if you wonder who has dismissed which batsmen most of the times - its Glenn McGrath-Michael Atherton combination which yielded 17 dismissals.. Harbhajan-Ponting combination is far down in the list of batsmen most dismissed by one bowler!



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