The Adelaide Test between Indian and Australia ended up with the home team just managing to beat India with 48 runs. The match turned out to be more closer than expected and Michael Clarke was lucky that his courageous declaration did not backfire on him thanks to Indians going down to the offspin of Nathan Lyon.
The Adelaide pitch was totally flat and excellent for batting. This home team obviously has the home advantage of playing in these conditions and also got to make the best of the condition since Michael Clarke won the toss and elected to bat.
The Indian quicks were hit all over the park by David Warner. Warner managed to get a century in both the innings of the Test match. Indian fast bowlers like Varun Aaron and Mohommad Sami were absolutely ineffective in the first session. A lot was expected off Varun since he is the fastest bowler in India , he got an opportunity to bowl on one of the fastest pitches in the world and Sami was coming after getting lots of wickets this year.
In the entire match all the bowlers both from Australia or India failed to make any major impact except Nathan Lyon who got 12 wickets 5 in the first innings and 7 wickets in the second innings. Had it not been for Lyon this match would had been won by India .
Actually the success of Nathan Lyon was because of Indian fast bowlers and the pitch. Nathan Lyon was the only regular off spinner among the 22 players. The Indian fast bowlers bowled lots of balls round the wicket and their footmarks created a nice rough for Lyon to bowl on. The ball did all sorts of things after it pitched on the rough some balls bounced very high, some balls kept low , some balls turned viciously. The Indians found very hard to play Lyon in the first inning itself and things got worse in the second innings.
Indians were going well at 242/2 when at the score of 99 Murli Vijay lost a bit of concentration and ended up giving his wicket to Lyon that opened the floodgates and the Indian batters could not last too long. The stand in captain chose debutant Karan Sharma over experienced Ashvin . Had Ashvin be picked in place of Sharma the story of the match could have been different . Ashvin could have made excellent use of the rough. The part time off spinners were not able to pitch enough balls in the rough to have any effect.
Indian catching was not very good dropped lots of catches and Saha also missed a stumping . Well lets hope that with Dhoni coming back in the next test in Brisbane the fortune,team selection and fielding of Team India changes and we get to see a very very competitive Test Match.
The Adelaide pitch was totally flat and excellent for batting. This home team obviously has the home advantage of playing in these conditions and also got to make the best of the condition since Michael Clarke won the toss and elected to bat.
The Indian quicks were hit all over the park by David Warner. Warner managed to get a century in both the innings of the Test match. Indian fast bowlers like Varun Aaron and Mohommad Sami were absolutely ineffective in the first session. A lot was expected off Varun since he is the fastest bowler in India , he got an opportunity to bowl on one of the fastest pitches in the world and Sami was coming after getting lots of wickets this year.
In the entire match all the bowlers both from Australia or India failed to make any major impact except Nathan Lyon who got 12 wickets 5 in the first innings and 7 wickets in the second innings. Had it not been for Lyon this match would had been won by India .
Actually the success of Nathan Lyon was because of Indian fast bowlers and the pitch. Nathan Lyon was the only regular off spinner among the 22 players. The Indian fast bowlers bowled lots of balls round the wicket and their footmarks created a nice rough for Lyon to bowl on. The ball did all sorts of things after it pitched on the rough some balls bounced very high, some balls kept low , some balls turned viciously. The Indians found very hard to play Lyon in the first inning itself and things got worse in the second innings.
Indians were going well at 242/2 when at the score of 99 Murli Vijay lost a bit of concentration and ended up giving his wicket to Lyon that opened the floodgates and the Indian batters could not last too long. The stand in captain chose debutant Karan Sharma over experienced Ashvin . Had Ashvin be picked in place of Sharma the story of the match could have been different . Ashvin could have made excellent use of the rough. The part time off spinners were not able to pitch enough balls in the rough to have any effect.
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Indian catching was not very good dropped lots of catches and Saha also missed a stumping . Well lets hope that with Dhoni coming back in the next test in Brisbane the fortune,team selection and fielding of Team India changes and we get to see a very very competitive Test Match.
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