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Watch cricket highlights (including Sachin Tendulkar’s 40th test century) from the 1st day of the Nagpur Test - Australia vs India - the 4th and final test from the 2008 Border-Gavaskar Trophy Series played on November 6, 2008.
Watch this, Gauti vs Watson and Katich. Gautam Gambhir has been banned by the ICC for 1 test match. His appeal against the ban has been rejected by ICC. As expected, Shane Watson was penalized only 10% of his match fee. Simon Katich has not even been reported for his “mental disintegration”, aka sledging, tactics.
Watch this video closely and you will see how well the Aussies play “in the spirit of the game”. If this is what they call a “gentleman’s sport” then Australia should be banned from playing any form of cricket, their Test status should be stripped, and all the trophies that they have won should be returned back. If this was the military, Australian players would have been court-martialled a long time ago.
A day to remember for an cricket fan. The man who had promised so much when he started at the age of 16, has finally lived up to all those promises after 19 years of playing. Sachin Tendulkar finally became the Greatest Ever Batsman in the history of the game as he reached the magical mark of 12000 runs in test cricket.
The second test had promised to be a cracker. The pitch at Mohali has deceived everyone by staying bone-dry on the first day. With Anil Kumble out due to shoulder problems, Amit Mishra gets to make his debut against the world’s No 1 test team. Mahendra Singh Dhoni, as skipper, won the toss and had no hesitation in batting first. If there is one shrewd customer, then it is MS. His analysis of the pitch was spot on. There was hardly any movement on day 1. The first session was unlike any ordinary test match session. This was a passage of play where India wanted to take the “bull by its horns”. And they did that in spectacular fashion. Going at almost a run a ball, Sehwag and Gambhir smashed Lee, Johnson and Siddle all over the place.
It wasn’t until Sehwag fell, quite a tame dismissal, that some sense of normalcy arrived in the batting. India, however, had made their point. They were going to make life extremely difficult for the Aussies. Gambhir reached his half century in the last over before lunch and was ably supported by Dravid, who himself was looking like his old self, aka The Wall.
Zaheer Khan justified his title of India’s pace spearhead as he overshadowed the much hyped Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh, by picking up a 5 wicket haul against his favorite opponents. Australia started the day at 254/4 with Michael ‘Mr Cricket’ Hussey on 46 not out.
Ishant Sharma provided the first breakthrough of the day as he took Shane Watson’s off-stump out of the ground. Haddin joined Hussey and the two built a solid 91 run partnership. It was Ishant who broke through again as Haddin mistimed a drive to VVS Laxman on short cover. Cameron White, making his test debut, was the next to follow at only 6. Ishant now had 3 for the day and 4 for the match.
Brett Lee then proved to be a thorn for India as he got involved in an important 59 run wicket for the 8th wicket. Zak then struck and cleared the tail in no time. Australia were reduced from 421/7 to 430/10 in a matter of 2 overs.
Watch Day 1 and Day 2 highlights