Even before the batsman went hammers and tongs, there was a different type of attack in Melbourne. A day before the start of the Boxing Day test match, the hail storm hit parts of Melbourne. Reports say the hailstones were of the size that of the cricket balls.
Despite bad weather condition, the test match between Australia and India went underway and Aussies scored 277/6 at stumps.
Debutant Ed Cowan looked like he belonged to the test team for a long time. He showed good amount of patience on the crease negotiating the Indian seamers.
David Warner was playing and missing some deliveries and was attacking the balls that were meant to be hit. There was a little lapse of concentration that resulted into his dismissal. He was trying to over attack. He was Umesh Yadav’s first Scalp in Australia.
Shaun Marsh, yet another hyped Australian batsman was too friendly for the scorers as he didn’t trouble the scorers at all. In came the Punter of Australian camp Ricky Ponting. While Ishant Sharma was bowling all cylinders, his dismissals in India’s Last tour down under would have been going at the back of his mind.
Ponting showed his class and silenced his critics by playing a wonder full innings of 62 runs. He was in good nick and scored runs at a good rate. No matter how much ever the Australia Media writes him off, he is the man to be watched. He would have been very pleased to get back to his form and he would have already constructed a thought of century in his mind just before he was caught in the slip by Laxman off Yadav’s delivery.
Aussies were 159 for 3- Yadav’ed.
‘Pup’ Michael Clark tried to show some resilience before he was Zaked. To follow him was Mr. Cricket (Mike Hussey) again not troubling the scorers, got Zaked.
Haddin and Peter Siddle showed some character down the order and towards the end of the day, made sure that Aussies reached a respectable total of 277/6.
Let us see what’s in store for Day 2 and subsequent days to come.
Despite bad weather condition, the test match between Australia and India went underway and Aussies scored 277/6 at stumps.
Debutant Ed Cowan looked like he belonged to the test team for a long time. He showed good amount of patience on the crease negotiating the Indian seamers.
David Warner was playing and missing some deliveries and was attacking the balls that were meant to be hit. There was a little lapse of concentration that resulted into his dismissal. He was trying to over attack. He was Umesh Yadav’s first Scalp in Australia.
Shaun Marsh, yet another hyped Australian batsman was too friendly for the scorers as he didn’t trouble the scorers at all. In came the Punter of Australian camp Ricky Ponting. While Ishant Sharma was bowling all cylinders, his dismissals in India’s Last tour down under would have been going at the back of his mind.
Ponting showed his class and silenced his critics by playing a wonder full innings of 62 runs. He was in good nick and scored runs at a good rate. No matter how much ever the Australia Media writes him off, he is the man to be watched. He would have been very pleased to get back to his form and he would have already constructed a thought of century in his mind just before he was caught in the slip by Laxman off Yadav’s delivery.
Aussies were 159 for 3- Yadav’ed.
‘Pup’ Michael Clark tried to show some resilience before he was Zaked. To follow him was Mr. Cricket (Mike Hussey) again not troubling the scorers, got Zaked.
Haddin and Peter Siddle showed some character down the order and towards the end of the day, made sure that Aussies reached a respectable total of 277/6.
Let us see what’s in store for Day 2 and subsequent days to come.
