Story India hosts Australia for a five test series

[ZexyZahid]

At what level are you playing: easy, medium or hard mode? And are you using any patch?

India is a bit recovering now.

 

[MWaugh]

good start from australia. dravid and tendulkar will have to create a solid partnership. i think warne will be tough to play later in this match

 

[brettLee]

yeah..good story
looking forward for it.
must win series for AUSSIE in india.
aussie are playing everywhere..SA, ENG, PAK, IND

 

[icyman]

seeing as all tests are in Calcutta .
It would be tough for the aussies .

 

[ashu2411]

At what level are you playing: easy, medium or hard mode? And are you using any patch?

India is a bit recovering now.

I am playing on hard mode and using Eddie's field patch which always has a mid-on fielder, so no easy boundaries with on-drives.

 

[ashu2411]

good start from australia. dravid and tendulkar will have to create a solid partnership. i think warne will be tough to play later in this match

Yeah I am looking forward to how warne bowls and how Dravid and Sachin plays him but we haven't seen him in action yet.

 

[ashu2411]

Here are some of the shots of Dravid and Sachin played during the first session.

 

[ashu2411]

Players are coming to the field for the post-lunch session of Day-1. This is going to be a very important session as India will hope that Dravid and Sachin hangs around and score some big innings.

First over will be bowled by Mcgrath. Some aggressive start by Sachin as he hits two beautiful boundaries in the very first over. Sachin clearly showing there that India will bat more aggressively in this session.

 

[ashu2411]

Dravid and Sachin completes a 50 run partnership and India reaches 84/2 and Ponting now started to look more worried as the two batsmen look to take India to a strong position.

 

[ashu2411]

Just when this partnership started to look dangerous, Gillespie strikes for Australia and India losses its Captain Rahul Dravid after making 29. India losses its third wicket for 91 and a good partnership of 62 runs comes to an end.

 

[ashu2411]

After Dravid former Indian Captain Saurav Ganguly comes to the crease and he needs to perform well here if he wants to stay in the team. So huge pressure will be on him.

India quickly reaches the 100 mark with a good shot for boundary by Ganguly.

 

[ashu2411]

On the other end Sachin continues to play well and completes his 50 off 90 balls which included 9 boundaries

Ganguly also joins Sachin with a good boundary

 

[ashu2411]

But Ganguly fails yet again with the bat as Mcgrath gets his second wicket and India losses its fourth wicket for 129. Ganguly made 12 before giving a simple catch at slips.

 

[ashu2411]

After Ganguly Laxman comes to the crease and India is in big trouble now. They need Sachin to hang there and play a big inning. Sachin is crucial now.

Both Laxman and Sachin takes India past 150 as we move close to the tea break.

Laxman and Sachin completes a 35 run partnership as we move into the last over before tea.

 

[ashu2411]

Ponting brings back Mcgrath for the last over and thats a good thinking by him.

And the immediate success for Mcgrath as he gets his third wicket and India losses its fifth. Laxman goes after scoring just 9 and India is now 168 for 5.