AUSSIES LOSE OUT

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The Australian Cricket team has been defeated by India by 6 wickets in the third test match which was played at Mohali.

With this win, India has now got ahead by 3-0 in the test series.

The score of Australia at the end of the 4th day’s play was 75 runs for the loss of 3 wickets. Phil Hughes and the night watchman Nathan Lyon was at the crease.

On the fifth morning, India got the breakthrough pretty early when Nathan Lyon was caught by the Indian skipper MS Dhoni off the bowling of the left arm spinner Pragyan Ojha.

Next to go was Michael Clarke. He was dismissed by Ravindra Jadeja for the fifth time in the series.

Phil Hughes also couldn’t carry on his inning for too long. He was adjudged leg before wicket. However, that decision of umpire was a bit controversial as the ball seemed to be pitching outside the leg stump.

Moises Henriques gave an easy return catch to Jadeja when the score of Australia was 126.

Peter Siddle showed a bit of aggression and hit a four and a six before being knocked over by a beauty from Pragyan Ojha.

Mitchell Starc added 36 runs with Brad Haddin for the 9th wicket and then, 44 runs with Xavier Doherty for the 10th wicket to take Australia to 223.

There was a target of 133 runs in front of the Indian team. The Indian openers made a decent start and added 42 runs for the first wicket. Murali Vijay was the first man to be dismissed after scoring 26 runs.

For the second wicket, Cheteshwar Pujara and Virat Kohli built a useful partnership of 28 runs and took India close to victory.

India lost two quick wickets towards the end and the match got a bit exciting. But, the Indian captain MS Dhoni finished off the match by hitting three consecutive fours off the bowling of Mitchell Starc.

BOPARA HITS 38

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Ravi Bopara played a decent knock of 38 runs for Chittagong kings in the BPL match against Barisal Burners and helped his team in winning the match. His knock of 38 runs on that low and slow wicket was extremely valuable.

Bopara didn’t take too many deliveries in scoring those runs. He faced 29 deliveries and hit five boundaries.

Earlier, in the morning, the captain of Barisal Burners Brad Hodge won the toss and decided to field first. Ravi Bopara and Naeem Islam came to open the innings for Chittagong and they gave their team a very good start. Both of them were looking comfortable against the slower bowlers.

The opening pair added 52 runs for the first wicket. The partnership was broken by Kabir Ali who dismissed Naeem at the score of 19. Bopara also departed soon after playing a very good knock under the circumstances. It was Shafiul Islam who got the all important wicket of Bopara.

After Bopara got out, the run rate of Chittagong Kings fell down dramatically. The batsmen started finding it difficult to score boundaries. Since the boundaries were not coming regularly, they tried to play risky shots and in the process, they threw their wickets away.

In the final few overs, Jacob Oram and Ryan ten Doeschate hit some lusty blows and took Chittagong to a respectable total. At the end of 20 overs, the score of Chittagong Kings was 129 runs for the loss of 7 wickets.

The Barisal Burners team didn’t bat well in reply. Except Brad Hodge, no other Barisal batsman looked in good form and all of them struggled against the slower bowlers of Chittagong. The Barisal team managed to score just 108 runs in 20 overs and lost the match by 21 runs.

Bopara did a decent job with the ball as well. He bowled a couple of overs in which he gave away 8 runs and took 1 wicket. He was declared man of the match for his good all round performance.

GILCHRIST HAILS AUSSIES

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The former Australian wicketkeeper, Adam Gilchrist, has hailed the Australian cricket team for bringing South Africa under pressure on the final day of the first test match which was played at Brisbane. The Australian bowlers bowled amazingly well in South Africa’s second innings and at one point of time, it seemed that there might be a result possible in that match. But, AB De Villiers and Vernon Philander saw off the day for their team and made sure that the first match of the series ended in the form of a draw.

Gilchrist looked very impressed with the all round performance of the Aussie team. The former wicket keeper said, “I am very impressed with the way the bowlers charged in on the last day. The match was clearly heading towards a draw, but, they made it interesting by bowling their heart out. All the bowlers went flat out and bowled with quite a lot of pace.”

“This kid Pattinson is a hugely talented bowler. Every time, he is given the ball, he runs in and tries to bowl quick, no matter what kind of surface he is bowling on. The pitch at Brisbane wasn’t assisting the pacemen that much, but, he didn’t get demoralized because of that. He decided to bend his back and that paid off for him.”

When asked about the performance of the Aussie skipper, Michael Clarke, who scored a double hundred in the match, Gili said, “Clarke has taken his game to a different level. He is on the way of becoming a great batsman. I just love watching him bat. He has got all the shots in the book.”

“The only problem that Clarke had in the past was that he wasn’t consistent enough. But, in the last couple of years, he has scored runs consistently.”