Winning the toss, Australia elected to bat on the Boxing Day and scored 277/6 on the first day. Day 2 saw India 214/3 at stumps after bundling Australia for 333. Day 3 saw 15 wickets falling and Australia leading by 230 runs with 2 wickets remaining. 4th day saw Australia winning comfortably as India fell short by 122 runs in the chase of 292 runs. Australia leads 1-0.
Ind in Aus 2011-12 Series: Schedule & Results
Match Facts
- Cowan’s first inning 68 is the second best on debut by any Australian.
Ponting scored his 58th & 59th half-century in the match.
3rd wicket’s stand of 113 run between Cowan & Ponting is their 2nd best at MCG against India.
Grabbing 50 wickets, Zaheer Khan became the 7th Indian bowler to achieve the feat against Austealia. Anil Kumble (111), Harbhajan Singh (90), Kapil Dev (79), Erapalli Prasanna (57), Bishan Singh Bedi (56) and Shivlal Yadav (55) are ahead him.
72 run stand for 7th wicket between Siddle and Haddin is Australia’s highest agianst India at MCG.
Dhoni became 2nd Indian wicketkeeper (after PK Sen in 1948) to effect four dismissals in an inning.
Sehwag became 5th Indian (and 23rd batsman) to cross 8000 test runs.
Sehwag completed 8000 runs in 160 innings (5th quickest after Sangakkara, Sachin, Sobers & Dravid) of 93 tests (4th quickest after Sangakkara & Sobers, followed by Hayden)
Dravid scored 63rd half-century.
Tendulkar created new record of test half-centuries with his 64th half-century (Going past Border’s 63 half-century test record)
Dravid & Tendulkar were involved in 20th test 100+ partnership (2nd place instance is of 16 100+ test partnerships)
Dravid extended his record of 100+ partnerships in test to 88, Tendulkar is second with 84, while Ponting is third with 82.
Tedndulkar’s 3224 runs (in 32 tests) is third highest against Australia, behind Jack Hobbs (3636) & David Gower (3269).
Hilfenhaus grabbed his first 5-wkt haul.
Hussey scored his 27th half-century.
Ponting and Hussey shared 115 run 5th-wkt partnership.
83 times, third highest after Dravid & Sachin, Ponting has been in test century partnerhips.
Australia 1st innings
- Cowan c Dhoni b Ashwin 68 runs 177 balls 7 4s
Warner c Dhoni b Yadav 37 runs 49 balls 4 4s 1 six
Shaun Marsh c Kohli b Yadav 0
Ponting c Laxman b Yadav 62 runs 94 balls 6 4s
Clarke b Khan 31 runs 68 balls 5 4s
Michael Hussey c Dhoni b Khan 0
Haddin c Sehwag b Khan 27 runs 70 balls 1 four
Siddle c Dhoni b Khan 41 runs 99 balls 4 4s
Pattinson not out 18 54 2 0 33.33
Hilfenhaus c Kohli b Ashwin 19 runs 32 balls 3 4s
Lyon b Ashwin 6 runs 11 balls 1 four
Extras (lb 21, w 2, nb 1) 24
Total (110 overs) 333
Fall of wickets
- 1-46 (Warner, 13.1 ov), 2-46 (Marsh, 15.1 ov), 3-159 (Ponting, 48.3 ov), 4-205 (Clarke, 64.2 ov), 5-205 (Hussey, 64.3 ov), 6-214 (Cowan, 67.1 ov), 7-286 (Haddin, 90.6 ov), 8-291 (Siddle, 96.1 ov), 9-318 (Hilfenhaus, 105.4 ov), 10-333 (Lyon, 109.6 ov)
Bowling
- Zaheer Khan 31 ov 6 maidens 77/4
Ishant Sharma 24 ov 7 maidens 48/0
Umesh Yadav 26 ov 5 maidens 106/3
Ashwin 29 ov 3 maidens 81/3
India 1st innings
- Gambhir c Haddin b Hilfenhaus 3 runs 23 balls
Sehwag b Pattinson 67 runs 83 balls 7 4s
Dravid b Hilfenhaus 68 runs 187 balls 6 4s
Tendulkar b Siddle 73 runs 98 balls 8 4s 1 six
Ishant Sharma c Haddin b Hilfenhaus 11 runs 69 balls
Laxman c Haddin b Siddle 2 runs 22 balls
Kohli c Haddin b Hilfenhaus 11 runs 21 balls 1 four
Dhoni c Hussey b Hilfenhaus 6 runs 8 balls
Ashwin c Haddin b Siddle 31 runs 35 balls 3 4s 1 six
Zaheer Khan b Pattinson 4 runs 6 balls 1 four
Umesh Yadav not out 2 runs 16 balls
Extras (w 1, nb 3) 4
Total (94.1 overs) 282
Fall of wickets
- 1-22 (Gambhir, 7.5 ov), 2-97 (Sehwag, 28.2 ov), 3-214 (Tendulkar, 64.3 ov), 4-214 (Dravid, 65.2 ov), 5-221 (Laxman, 72.4 ov), 6-238 (Kohli, 79.2 ov), 7-245 (Dhoni, 81.4 ov), 8-254 (Sharma, 87.2 ov), 9-259 (Khan, 88.6 ov), 10-282 (Ashwin, 94.1 ov)
Bowling
- Pattinson 23 ov 6 maidens 55/2
Hilfenhaus 26 ov 5 maidens 75/5
Siddle 21.1 ov 2 maidens 63/3
Lyon 17 ov 2 maidens 66/0
Hussey 5 ov 15/0
Warner 2 ov 8/0
Australia 2nd innings
- Warner b Yadav 5 runs 27 balls
Cowan lbw b Yadav 8 runs 17 balls 1 four
Shaun Marsh b Yadav 3 runs 11 balls
Ponting c Sehwag b Khan 60 runs 97 balls 3 4s
Clarke b Sharma 1 run 4 balls
Hussey c †Dhoni b Khan 89 runs 151 balls 9 4s
Haddin c Laxman b Khan 6 runs 14 balls
Siddle c Dhoni b Yadav 4 runs 22 balls
Lyon lbw b Ashwin 0
Pattinson not out 37 runs 81 balls 4 4s
Hilfenhaus c Laxman b Sharma 14 runs 29 balls 2 4s
Extras (b 5, lb 2, w 1, nb 5) 13
Total (76.3 overs) 240
Fall of wickets
- 1-13 (Warner, 7.1 ov), 2-16 (Cowan, 7.4 ov), 3-24 (Marsh, 11.3 ov), 4-27 (Clarke, 12.5 ov), 5-142 (Ponting, 40.2 ov), 6-148 (Haddin, 42.5 ov), 7-163 (Siddle, 50.6 ov), 8-166 (Lyon, 53.6 ov), 9-197 (Hussey, 66.5 ov), 10-240 (Hilfenhaus, 76.3 ov)
Bowling
- Zaheer Khan 20 ov 4 maidens 53/3
Umesh Yadav 20 ov 4 maidens 70/4
Ishant Sharma 12.3 ov 43/2
Ashwin 22 ov 4 maidens 60/1
Sehwag 2 ov 7/0
India 2nd innings (target: 292 runs)
- Gambhir c Ponting b Siddle 13 runs 46 balls 1 four
Sehwag c Hussey b Hilfenhaus 7 runs 12 balls 1 four
Dravid b Pattinson 10 runs 29 balls 1 four
Tendulkar c Hussey b Siddle 32 runs 46 balls 4 4s
Laxman c Cowan b Pattinson 1 runs 14 balls
Kohli lbw b Hilfenhaus 0
Dhoni b Pattinson 23 runs 44 balls 1 six
Ashwin c Cowan b Siddle 30 runs 35 balls 5 4s
Zaheer Khan c Cowan b Pattinson 13 runs 22 balls 1 four 1 six
Ishant Sharma not out 6 runs 14 balls
Umesh Yadav c Warner b Lyon 21 runs 25 balls 2 4s 1 six
Extras (lb 10, w 2, nb 1) 13
Total (47.5 overs) 169
Fall of wickets
- 1-17 (Sehwag, 5.6 ov), 2-39 (Gambhir, 12.1 ov), 3-58 (Dravid, 18.6 ov), 4-68 (Laxman, 22.6 ov), 5-69 (Kohli, 23.3 ov), 6-81 (Tendulkar, 26.1 ov), 7-117 (Ashwin, 34.6 ov), 8-141 (Khan, 40.5 ov), 9-142 (Dhoni, 42.2 ov), 10-169 (Yadav, 47.5 ov)
Bowling
- Pattinson 15 ov 2 maidens 53/4
Hilfenhaus 18 ov 4 maidens 39/2
Siddle 9 ov 1 maiden 42/3
Lyon 5.5 ov 25/1
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