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Yet another sterling new-ball performance from Ishant Sharma, and some good support acts from the rest of the seamers, rattled Australia's top order on a belter of a pitch in scorching Adelaide.
Choosing to bat first on a featherbed of a pitch, Australia were struggling at 79 for 5 at the halfway mark with Ishant and Irfan Pathan snaring two wickets apiece. Like in Melbourne, Australia lost half their side with less than 75 on the board and the sight of Gilchrist hammering his bat against the dressing-room walls summed up the frustration.
Ishant dismissed two dangerous batsman - the in-form Adam Gilchrist, who inside-edged onto his stumps, and the explosive Andrew Symonds, chopping straight to gully. He clocked up a serious pace, going beyond the 152kph mark on one occasion, and extracted good bounce from what was essentially a batsman's paradise. He sussed up the conditions early and struck a perfect length, one that didn't allow the batsmen to get onto their front foot.
He could have had Matthew Hayden early on as well, beating him on four occasions without striking the edge. Unlike Sreesanth, who offered the left-hand openers plenty of room, he cramped them for space and troubled with bounce. Mahendra Singh Dhoni's decision to bring him back for a second spell at the start of the third Powerplay paid dividends: he struck with the wicket of Symonds to solidify India's position even further.
http://cricklive.blogspot.com/
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