After India’s great start to the series with the wicket of Matthew Hayden in the third ball of the First Test, the first day belonged to Ricky Ponting, who made his 36th hundred (and his first in India – youtube here) before falling to Harbhajan (youtube here).
Australia have the upper hand. but only just.
Mate, I do think the game is in the balance. With Haddin, whity and watto to come the middle order is a bit thin.
none of them are that good against spin and from what i saw in the warm up game they could be polished off pretty quick.
even stevens for me.
The middle order doesn’t look too thin at the moment…
Maybe a draw is still the most likely outcome unless Clark takes a load of wickets.
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