India Tour of Australia 2011-12 & C.B. Series

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March 2: Australia v Sri Lanka, Melbourne

March 4: 1st Final, Brisbane

March 6: 2nd Final, Adelaide

March 8: 3rd Final, Adelaide

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Indian Squad for tests

Squad: MS Dhoni (capt &wk), Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, Virat Kohli, R Ashwin, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Varun Aaron, Rohit Sharma, Pragyan Ojha, Praveen Kumar, Ajinkya Rahane, Wriddhiman Saha, Zaheer Khan (subject to fitness).

Harbhazan excluded again

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Looks like Harbhajan is now out for ever.!!?

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Australian Squad for Boxing Day Test

Michael Clarke (capt), Brad Haddin (Vice Captain), Ed Cowan, David Warner, Shaun Marsh, Ricky Ponting, Michael Hussey, Daniel Christian, Peter Siddle, James Pattinson, Ben Hilfenhaus, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon

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Top three run scorers in Test matches (Sachin, Dravid & Ponting) will be playing in a test match on Boxing day. Such incident occured about 90 years back, as per an article published in local telugu daily

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I Test: Aus won toss and elect to bat on green top wicket and on overcast day

India playing XI: 1 Virender Sehwag, 2 Gautam Gambhir, 3 Rahul Dravid, 4 Sachin Tendulkar, 5 Virat Kohli, 6 VVS Laxman, 7 MS Dhoni (capt, wk), 8 R Ashwin, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Umesh Yadav

Australia playing XI: 1 David Warner, 2 Ed Cowan, 3 Shaun Marsh, 4 Ricky Ponting, 5 Michael Clarke (capt), 6 Michael Hussey, 7 Brad Haddin (wk), 8 Peter Siddle, 9 James Pattinson, 10 Nathan Lyon, 11 Ben Hilfenhaus

Aus manage 68/2, when rain caused early lunch, Yadav picking both the wickets

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Stump - Day 1.

Australia 277/6 (in 89 overs)

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Day - 2

Australia 1st innings - 333 (all out)

India 18/0 (in 6 overs)

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India lost its 1st wicket.
Gautam Gambhir out for 3 runs

Score 28/1

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Day 2- Stumps

Sachin again missed his 100th Century..

Sachin out for 73.

India score 214/3 (in 65 overs)
Trail by 119 runs with 7 wickets in hand

Rahul Dravid - 68*
I Sharma (night watchman) - 0*