Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
MSK Prasad †	c ME Waugh b McGrath	5	37	43	1	0	13.51
VVS Laxman	c Slater b Lee	7	60	93	0	0	11.66
Rahul Dravid	c Ponting b McGrath	29	74	102	1	0	39.18
Sachin Tendulkar (c)	lbw b McGrath	45	53	82	8	0	84.90
Sourav Ganguly	c SR Waugh b Blewett	1	5	5	0	0	20.00
Hrishikesh Kanitkar	c †Gilchrist b Lee	10	67	83	1	0	14.92
Vijay Bharadwaj	c †Gilchrist b Lee	6	35	67	1	0	17.14
Anil Kumble	c Langer b McGrath	26	56	59	4	0	46.42
Ajit Agarkar	c ME Waugh b Lee	0	1	1	0	0	0.00
Javagal Srinath	c Ponting b McGrath	3	16	22	0	0	18.75
Venkatesh Prasad	not out	1	7	25	0	0	14.28
Extras	(lb 12, nb 4, w 1)	17
Total	67.5 Ov (RR: 2.21, 295 Mins)	150
Fall of wickets 1-10 (MSK Prasad, 10.5 ov), 2-27 (VVS Laxman, 22.2 ov), 3-68 (Rahul Dravid, 34.1 ov), 4-69 (Sourav Ganguly, 35.1 ov), 5-95 (Sachin Tendulkar, 40.6 ov), 6-118 (Hrishikesh Kanitkar, 54.1 ov), 7-119 (Vijay Bharadwaj, 56.1 ov), 8-119 (Ajit Agarkar, 56.2 ov), 9-126 (Javagal Srinath, 61.5 ov), 10-150 (Anil Kumble, 67.5 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	WD	NB
Glenn McGrath	18.5	7	48	5	2.54	-	0	1
Damien Fleming	13	7	24	0	1.84	-	1	2
Brett Lee	21	9	39	4	1.85	-	0	1
Shane Warne	12	4	22	0	1.83	-	0	0
Greg Blewett	3	2	5	1	1.66	-	0	0

Australia 1st Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Greg Blewett	b BKV Prasad	19	54	90	0	0	35.18
Michael Slater	c †MSK Prasad b Srinath	1	11	18	0	0	9.09
Justin Langer	c BKV Prasad b Tendulkar	223	355	523	30	0	62.81
Mark Waugh	b Ganguly	32	70	102	5	1	45.71
Steve Waugh (c)	lbw b Srinath	57	124	151	9	0	45.96
Ricky Ponting	not out	141	183	262	17	1	77.04
Adam Gilchrist †	not out	45	56	65	5	0	80.35
Extras	(b 2, lb 21, nb 11)	34
Total	140.2 Ov (RR: 3.93, 608 Mins)	552/5d
Did not bat Shane Warne, Damien Fleming, Brett Lee, Glenn McGrath
Fall of wickets 1-9 (Michael Slater, 4.3 ov), 2-49 (Greg Blewett, 19.5 ov), 3-146 (Mark Waugh, 42.1 ov), 4-267 (Steve Waugh, 80.1 ov), 5-457 (Justin Langer, 122.5 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	NB
Javagal Srinath	28	4	105	2	3.75	-	7
Ajit Agarkar	19	3	95	0	5.00	-	0
Venkatesh Prasad	28	10	86	1	3.07	-	0
Anil Kumble	33.2	6	126	0	3.78	-	2
Sourav Ganguly	12	1	46	1	3.83	-	1
Vijay Bharadwaj	12	1	35	0	2.91	-	1
Sachin Tendulkar	7	0	34	1	4.85	-	0
Hrishikesh Kanitkar	1	0	2	0	2.00	-	0

India 2nd Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
VVS Laxman	c †Gilchrist b Lee	167	198	255	27	0	84.34
MSK Prasad †	c ME Waugh b McGrath	3	7	19	0	0	42.85
Rahul Dravid	c Warne b McGrath	0	7	9	0	0	0.00
Sachin Tendulkar (c)	c Langer b Fleming	4	4	6	1	0	100.00
Sourav Ganguly	c ME Waugh b McGrath	25	51	71	3	0	49.01
Hrishikesh Kanitkar	c Slater b Lee	8	19	32	1	0	42.10
Anil Kumble	c Ponting b McGrath	15	45	75	3	0	33.33
Ajit Agarkar	c †Gilchrist b McGrath	0	2	3	0	0	0.00
Javagal Srinath	not out	15	27	38	1	0	55.55
Venkatesh Prasad	run out (†Gilchrist)	3	2	4	0	0	150.00
Vijay Bharadwaj	absent hurt	-	-	-	-	-	-
Extras	(b 4, lb 2, nb 14, w 1)	21
Total	58 Ov (RR: 4.50, 260 Mins)	261
Fall of wickets 1-22 (MSK Prasad, 4.3 ov), 2-26 (Rahul Dravid, 6.4 ov), 3-33 (Sachin Tendulkar, 7.4 ov), 4-101 (Sourav Ganguly, 24.5 ov), 5-145 (Hrishikesh Kanitkar, 30.6 ov), 6-234 (Anil Kumble, 50.1 ov), 7-234 (Ajit Agarkar, 50.3 ov), 8-258 (VVS Laxman, 57.1 ov), 9-261 (Venkatesh Prasad, 57.6 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	WD	NB
Glenn McGrath	17	1	55	5	3.23	-	0	6
Damien Fleming	13	2	47	1	3.61	-	1	1
Brett Lee	11	2	67	2	6.09	-	0	5
Greg Blewett	2	0	16	0	8.00	-	0	0
Shane Warne	13	1	60	0	4.61	-	0	2
Ricky Ponting	1	0	8	0	8.00	-	0	0
Michael Slater	1	0	2	0	2.00	-	0	0

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Close of Play

Sun, 02 Jan

day 1 - India 1st innings 121/8 (Anil Kumble 1*, Javagal Srinath 2*, 60 ov)

Mon, 03 Jan

day 2 - Australia 1st innings 331/4 (Justin Langer 167*, Ricky Ponting 34*, 95 ov)

Tue, 04 Jan

day 3 - India 2nd innings 261 (58 ov) - end of match

Match Flow

General

Day 1

Rain stopped play from 12:32pm to 3:08pm. Lunch was taken from 12:50pm to 1:30pm and tea taken at 4:10pm. Stumps was rescheduled to 7:00pm with a minimum of 76 overs to be bowled in the day.

Lunch: India 27/1 (Laxman 7*, Dravid 9*, 21.5 overs)

India 50 off 114 mins, 26.4 overs

Tea: India 69/4 (Tendulkar 19*, 35.1 overs)

India 100 off 197 mins, 45.1 overs

Bad light stopped play at 6:19pm with the day being abandoned at 6:36pm

Attendance: 42,193

Day 2

India 150 off 294 mins, 67.3 overs

Australia 50 off 95 mins, 20.3 overs

Lunch: Australia 57/2 (Langer 29*, ME Waugh 1*, 24 overs)

JL Langer 50 in 122 mins, 96 balls, 7x4 0x6

Langer/ME Waugh partnership 50 off 55 mins, 77 balls

Australia 100 in 153 mins, 32.6 overs

Australia 150 off 196 mins, 42.3 overs

Tea: Australia 177/3 (Langer 98*, SR Waugh 14*, 51 overs)

JL Langer 100 off 241 mins, 172 balls, 14x4 0x6

Langer/SR Waugh partnership 50 off 66 mins, 104 balls

Australia 200 off 261 mins, 59.3 overs

Langer/SR Waugh partnership 100 off 185 balls, 124 mins

SR Waugh 50 off 113 balls, 137 mins, 8x4 0x6

JL Langer 150 off 335 mins, 235 balls, 22x4 0x6

Australia 300 off 374 mins, 86.1 overs

Attendance: 38,705

Day 3

RT Ponting 50 in 97 mins, 76 balls, 8x4 1x6

Australia 400 off 475 mins, 108.2 overs

Langer/Ponting partnership 150 off 151 mins, 193 balls

RT Ponting 100 off 141 balls, 204 mins, 12x4 1x6

Lunch: Australia 477/5 (Ponting 102*, Gilchrist 10*, 128 overs)

Australia 500 in 573 mins, 131.3 overs

Ponting/Gilchrist partnership 50 off 38 mins, 67 balls

India 50 in 53 mins, 11.1 overs

Tea: India 69/3 (Laxman 46*, Ganguly 10*, 14 overs)

VVS Laxman 50 in 71 mins, 55 balls, 8x4 0x6

India 100 in 108 mins, 24.3 overs

India 150 in 146 mins, 31.6 overs

VVS Laxman 100 in 149 mins, 114 balls, 16x4 1x5 0x6

Laxman/Kumble partnership 50 off 37 mins, 57 balls

India 200 in 181 mins, 40.4 overs

VVS Laxman 150 in 207 mins, 172 balls, 25x4 1x5 0x6

India 250 in 249 mins, 55.4 overs

Match Details

GroundSydney Cricket Ground

TossIndia, elected to bat first

Series

India tour of Australia

Season1999/00

Player Of The Match

Glenn McGrath

Player Of The Series

Sachin Tendulkar

Series resultAustralia won the 3-match series 3-0

Match numberTest no. 1481

Match daysday (5-day match)

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