Cricket Banter

India back on top now.After Harbhajan dismissed Wade for 62,ending a 5th wicket partnership of 145,5 wickets fell for 28 runs.Clarke was out for 91,as he was batting with the lower order as wickets were falling.
Latest - A surprise declaration from Clarke on 237-9,hoping to get back in the game with 3 overs left to play.Pattinson is a good number 11 & slogging 20 or 30 runs on a pitch that wont get any better may have been the way to go on what could be a low scoring game.I still expect India to still take a 1st innings lead.

After resuming on 5-0 India have already amassed a 74 run lead by close of play on day 2.

Aus 237-9 declared

India 311-1 Murali Vijay 129 not out Pujara 162 not out

Day 3 Close - India 503 all out Pujara 204 M Vijay 167 Dhoni 44 Kholi 34 Maxwell 4-127 doherty 3-131
Aus 2nd Innings 74-2 Cowan 26 not out Warner 26 Ashwin 2-42

India beat Australia by an innings & 135 runs as they collapsed to 131 all out on day 4.Only Cowan with 44 put up any resistance.Ashwin took 5-63 backed up well by Jadeja with 3-33.

Dhoni has now won more tests as captain than any other Indian, winning 22 of his 45 tests as captain, now ahead of Ganguly who won 21 out of 49 as captain. 17 of Dhoni's wins have been at home in 26 matches played, but away from India the record is not so good with 5 wins out of 19.

I've noticed over the last few years that the tourists often have a bad start to a test series, as England have done again. Personally I think its just down to the fact that they dont play enough "warm up" games to get the players into a rhythm. Years ago they would play 3/4 games before the first test, which they cant do now due to all the ODI and T20 games they now have to play, which means players like Compton, KP, Anderson and Prior haven't played for a few weeks.

Sri Lanka made 348-3 on day 1 of the Galle Test Match V Bangladesh
Sangakkara 142 Dilshan 54 Thirimanne 69 not out Gazi 3-101

Sri Lanka 570-4 dec Sangakkara 142 Thirimanne 155 not out Chandimal 116 not out Gazi 3-164
Bangladesh 638 all out Rahim 200 Ashrafal 190 Hossain 100
Batsmen filling their boots,looking like a bore draw.

Mushfiqur Rahim became the first Bangladesh batsman to score a double century and with 638 Bangladesh set their highest ever Test score and had 3 centurions in the same innings for the first time.

Sri Lanka 2nd innings 230-1 Dilshan 120 not out Sangakkara 105 not out
8 centuries in the match is an amazing stat,but if you played on wickets this good for batting all the time Test Match Cricket would die.