Airtel India Australia Test Series
•The Long Awaited Airtel Border Gavesker Trophy began with a fist on Friday At Chepauk here in Chennai. • On a flat track, Aussie skipper Michael Clarke won the toass & elected to Bat. • For India Bhuvneshwar Kumar became 276th cap for India with his Test Debut while Moises Henriques also began his test carrier with this match. • With the start os the game, Harbhajan Singh has also became the 10th Indian Player to play 100 Test Matches. Sachin Tendulkar, with 195 Tests, heads the table, followed by Rahul Dravid (164), VVS Laxman (134), Anil Kumble (132), Kapil Dev (131), Sunil Gavaskar (125), Dilip Vengsarkar (116), Sourav Ganguly (113) and Virender Sehwag (103). • David Warner along with Ed Cowan got Australia to a Nice start with a partnership of 64 as before this partnership was broke by Ravi Ashwin. 
• Ed Cowan Tried to come down the track of Ashwin & was stumped by Indian Skipper MS Dhoni. • With that stumping, Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the first wicketkeeper to effect 20 stumpings in Tests in India. He took his dismissals` tally to 109 in 37 Tests in India, bettering Syed Kirmani`s tally of 108 (89 catches + 19 stumpings) in 48 Tests. • Phillip Hughes came into next did not get going & was bowled by Ashwin of 6. • Shane Watson & David Warner then got set & made aussie score pass 100 & they stayed at the crease till lunch. In the mean time, David Warner also reached his 6th half century of his carrier. • Earlier Warner was dropped of by sehwag on 18 at slip region of Ashwin. • After lunch, Ashwin got rid of Shane Watson, Warner & Mathew Wade in quick Succesion made Aussie struggle at 153-5. • Then Michael Clarke & Debutant Moises Henriques took the job to take out their team from trouble & they did that very well & both stayed till the Tea Break. • After Tea Break, Clarke reached his 50 & Henriques also started to play his shots & australian scorecard keeps tickling. • Moises Henriques also reached his fifty on debut & splendid 68 off 132 balls is the joint fifth highest by an Australian player against India on debut in Tests before getting becoming 6th victim of Ashwin in the 89th over. • Michael Clarke and Moises Henriques were involved in a stand of 151 - Australia`s highest sixth-wicket partnership at Chepauk. • In the very next over, James Pattinson was dismissed by Ravinder Jadeja. • In the Final Over of the day, Clarke reached his ton & also passed 7000 test runs • Michael Clarke is the 10th Australian player to complete 7,000 runs or more in Tests, totalling 7092 at an average of 53.32 in 90 Tests. His achievement of reaching 7000 runs in 149 innings is the third quickest by an Australian batsman in Tests - the quickest being 142 by Matthew Hayden and 145 by Ricky Ponting. 
• Clarke enjoys a marvellous record as captain, averaging 72.57. He has managed 2395 in 22 Tests, including nine hundreds. His overall tally of 23 centuries is exceeded only by Ricky Ponting (41), Steve Waugh (32), Matthew Hayden (30), Don Bradman (29), Allan Border (27) and Greg Chappell (24) for Australia in Tests. • Clarke has registered three centuries in his last four Tests against India - an unbeaten 329 at Sydney; 18 at Perth, 210 & 37 at Adelaide and an unbeaten 103 at Chennai - his tally being 697 in five innings at an average of 232.33. Thanks to his outstanding sequence, he is averaging 53.32 -- his highest average since December 2004. • Clarke has recorded six hundreds against India - a tally bettered only by Ricky Ponting (8) for Australia. • Ashwin was the lonely bowler to tight the grip over australians on the first day. Ashwin gained spin, dip and bounce while harvesting six wickets, but the rest tended to pitch too short and gave the Australians room to manoeuvre the ball around the MA Chidambaram Stadium. Ishant Sharma and the debutant Bhuvneshwar Kumar appeared peripheral members of the attack; the omitted Pragyan Ojha can feel justly aggrieved. • Ravichandran Ashwin (6/88) has recorded his first-five wicket haul against Australia in Tests. Six wickets out of six were taken by him on the first day of a Test match for the first time. • Here is a brief Scorecard from Day 1:- Australia 316/7 95 overs Michale Clarke* 103 Moises Henriques 68 David Warner 59 Ravichandran Ashwin 30-5-88-6 Ravindra Jadeja 24-5-56-1 Read more...
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