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Test No. 1891

Australia tour of India, 2008
2008-09 season
India vs Australia - 3rd Test
29 October - 02 November, 2008 (5-day match)

India led the 4-match series 1-0

Venue : Feroz Shah Kotla, New Delhi
Toss : India won the toss and elected to bat first
Result : Match drawn


IND 1st Innings
R 
B 
4s 
6s
SR 
»
 Gautam Gambhir b Watson
206 
380 
26 
1
54.21 
»
 Virender Sehwag lbw b Lee
1 
2 
0 
0
50.00 
»
 Rahul Dravid c Hayden b Johnson
11 
31 
1 
0
35.48 
»
 Sachin Tendulkar c Haddin b Johnson
68 
126 
11 
0
53.97 
»
 VVS Laxman Not Out
200 
301 
21 
0
66.45 
»
 Sourav Ganguly c Ponting b Katich
5 
8 
1 
0
62.50 
»
 MS Dhoni c Haddin b Watson
27 
29 
4 
1
93.10 
»
 Anil Kumble lbw b Johnson
45 
73 
7 
0
61.64 
»
 Zaheer Khan Not Out
28 
21 
5 
0
133.33 
Extras B 4, LB 10, W 2, N 6
22
Total : (7 wickets dec in 161.0 overs)
613
 RR : 3.81

did not bat: Amit Mishra, Ishant Sharma

Fall of wickets : 1-5 (Sehwag, 2.1 ov), 2-27 (Dravid, 10.4 ov), 3-157 (Tendulkar, 51.5 ov), 4-435 (Gambhir, 123.6 ov), 5-444 (Ganguly, 126.2 ov), 6-481 (Dhoni, 133.4 ov), 7-579 (Kumble, 155.4 ov)

Bowlers
O
M
R
W
RPO
NB
Wd
  
»
 Brett Lee
30
2 
119 
1
3.97
2
0
»
 Stuart Clark
33
9 
69 
0
2.09
1
1
»
 Mitchell Johnson
32
4 
142 
3
4.44
0
1
»
 Shane Watson
20
4 
66 
2
3.30
3
0
»
 Cameron White
15
1 
73 
0
4.87
0
0
»
 Michael Clarke
14
0 
59 
0
4.21
0
0
»
 Simon Katich
15
3 
60 
1
4.00
0
0
»
 Ricky Ponting
2
0 
11 
0
5.50
0
0

Aus 1st Inning
(Target: 377 runs)
R 
B 
4s 
6s
SR 
»
 Matthew Hayden lbw b Sehwag
83 
154 
13 
1
53.90 
»
 Simon Katich b Mishra
64 
116 
10 
0
55.17 
»
 Ricky Ponting b Sehwag
87 
165 
14 
0
52.73 
»
 Michael Hussey b Sehwag
53 
146 
7 
0
36.30 
»
 Michael Clarke c Khan b Mishra
112 
253 
6 
1
44.27 
»
 Shane Watson b Sehwag
36 
62 
8 
0
58.06 
»
 Brad Haddin st Dhoni b Kumble
17 
35 
1 
1
48.57 
»
 Cameron White b Sehwag
44 
95 
5 
1
46.32 
»
 Brett Lee lbw b Kumble
8 
47 
0 
0
17.02 
»
 Mitchell Johnson c & b Kumble
15 
12 
2 
0
125.00 
»
 Stuart Clark Not Out
1 
2 
0 
0
50.00 
Extras B 28, LB 17, W 2, N 10
57
Total : (all out in 179.3 overs)
577
 RR : 3.21

Fall of wickets : 1-123 (Katich, 33.1 ov), 2-202 (Hayden, 57.2 ov), 3-284 (Ponting, 54.4 ov), 4-326 (Hussey, 101.6 ov), 5-399 (Watson, 122.1 ov), 6-426 (Haddin, 131.5 ov), 7-532 (White, 162.5 ov), 8-555 (Lee, 175.4 ov), 9-567 (Clarke, 178.1 ov), 10-577 (Johnson, 179.3

Bowlers
O
M
R
W
RPO
NB
Wd
  
»
 Zaheer Khan
23
5 
86 
0
3.74
2
0
»
 Ishant Sharma
25
5 
84 
0
3.36
2
2
»
 Anil Kumble
43
 .3
9 
112 
3
2.57
2
0
»
 Amit Mishra
47
12 
144 
2
3.06
4
0
»
 Virender Sehwag
40
9 
104 
5
2.60
0
0
»
 Sachin Tendulkar
1
0 
2 
0
2.00
0
0

IND 2nd Innings
R 
B 
4s 
6s
SR 
»
 Gautam Gambhir lbw b Johnson
36 
107 
5 
0
33.64 
»
 Virender Sehwag b Lee
16 
17 
2 
0
94.12 
»
 Ishant Sharma c Ponting b Clark
1 
2 
0 
0
50.00 
»
 Rahul Dravid b Lee
11 
37 
2 
0
29.73 
»
 Sachin Tendulkar c Hayden b White
47 
120 
4 
0
39.17 
»
 VVS Laxman Not Out
59 
130 
7 
0
45.38 
»
 Sourav Ganguly Not Out
32 
53 
3 
1
60.38 
Extras LB 4, W 1, N 1
6
Total : (5 wickets dec in 77.3 overs)
208
 RR : 2.68

did not bat: Amit Mishra, Anil Kumble, MS Dhoni, Zaheer Khan

Fall of wickets : 1-29 (Sehwag, 8.2 ov), 2-34 (Sharma, 9.1 ov), 3-53 (Dravid, 20.4 ov), 4-93 (Gambhir, 36.5 ov), 5-145 (Tendulkar, 57.1 ov)

Bowlers
O
M
R
W
RPO
NB
Wd
  
»
 Brett Lee
17
3 
48 
2
2.82
1
0
»
 Stuart Clark
12
6 
22 
1
1.83
0
0
»
 Michael Clarke
20
 .3
7 
56 
0
2.73
0
0
»
 Simon Katich
1
0 
5 
0
5.00
0
0
»
 Mitchell Johnson
12
0 
23 
1
1.92
0
1
»
 Cameron White
8
0 
23 
1
2.88
0
0
»
 Shane Watson
7
0 
27 
0
3.86
0
0

Aus 2nd Innings
(Target: 245 runs)
R 
B 
4s 
6s
SR 
»
 Matthew Hayden Not Out
16 
29 
4 
0
55.17 
»
 Simon Katich Not Out
14 
19 
2 
0
73.68 
Extras LB 1
1
Total : (0 wickets in 8.0 overs)
31
 RR : 3.88

did not bat: Brad Haddin, Brett Lee, Cameron White, Michael Clarke, Michael Hussey, Mitchell Johnson, Ricky Ponting, Shane Watson, Stuart Clark


Bowlers
O
M
R
W
RPO
NB
Wd
  
»
 Anil Kumble
4
0 
14 
0
3.50
0
0
»
 Virender Sehwag
2
0 
14 
0
7.00
0
0
»
 Amit Mishra
2
0 
2 
0
1.00
0
0

Match details
Man of the Match: VVS Laxman (India)
Umpires : Billy Bowden (New Zealand) and Aleem Dar (Pakistan)
Third Umpire: SL Shastri (India)
Referee : Chris Broad (England)
Reserve Umpire: SN Bandekar (India)
Close of Play
Day 1 : India 1st Innings - 296/3 (G Gambhir 149*, VVS Laxman 54*, 89 ov)
Day 2 : Australia 1st Innings - 50/0 (SM Katich 29*, ML Hayden 16*, 15 ov)
Day 3 : Australia 1st Innings - 338/4 (MJ Clarke 21*, SR Watson 4*, 105 ov)
Day 4 : India 2nd Innings - 43/2 (G Gambhir 21*, R Dravid 5*, 13 ov)
Day 5 : Australia 2nd Innings - 31/0 (SM Katich 14*, ML Hayden 16*, 8 ov) - end of the match

Teams:
India Amit Mishra, Anil Kumble (Capt.), Gautam Gambhir, Ishant Sharma, MS Dhoni (wk), Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Virender Sehwag, VVS Laxman, Zaheer Khan
Australia Brad Haddin (wk), Brett Lee, Cameron White, Matthew Hayden, Michael Clarke, Michael Hussey, Mitchell Johnson, Ricky Ponting (Capt.), Shane Watson, Simon Katich, Stuart Clark
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