Story India hosts Australia for a five test series

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Both batsmen completes a 50 run partnership but Laxman soon goes to pavillion as he tries to hit warne over the infield but ends up giving an easy catch at mid-wicket

 

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Now the Indian tail gets exposed and Mcgrath now works to wrap it quickly as he gets Kumble caught in slips to Katich and India losses its seventh wicket for 194

 

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Harbhajan and Gavaskar takes India past 200 but Gavaskar soon get out as India looks to get all out before lunch

 

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Lee gets his second wicket of the match as he gets Zaheer caught to Gillespie and India is now 210/9

 

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The last wicket pair somehow managed to take India to lunch with still one wicket left

 

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Here is the scorecard at lunch as India managed to score only 45 runs and lost 4 wickets in the session. This pitch is now really difficult to bat. India now leads by 300 runs.

 

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Players are coming to the ground for Post lunch session here on Day 4

 

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Clarke quickly finished the Indian inning on 228 as Australia will now have to chase 304 runs to win with almost five sessions of play left. So no chance of a draw here as we will definitely see a result except there occurs some untimely rain

 

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Here are the scorecards at the end of Indian inning

 

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Australian openers are coming to the ground for their second inning. Australia will need some quality batting from its batsmen against two-world class spinners if the have to win this match.

 

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That brings the close of fourth day's play as Australia finished the day at 153/4. On fifth and last day, Aus needs 151 runs to win with still six wickets in hand

 

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Here is the scorecard at end of day 4

 

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well..aussie will do it now..

 

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On fifth day aussies start well as they look to move closer to victory due to 100 run partnership between Katich and Clarke.

 

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Once again very much like the first inning once Clarke got out, absolutely no resilience from Australian tail and at Lunch on Day 5 Australian defeat was almost certain with Australia 9 down for 249. They still need 55 more runs to win with Gilchrist still at the crease. Now the question is "can Gillcrist play a magic inning here to bring an almost impossible looking win?" Well lets wait till the end of lunch to find the answer.