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Australia vs India, 3rd Test at Melbourne, Dec 26 2003 - Full Scorecard

RESULT

3rd Test, Melbourne, December 26 - 30, 2003, India tour of Australia

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India

366 & 286

Australia

(T:95) 558 & 97/1

Australia won by 9 wickets

Player Of The Match

Ricky Ponting

, AUS

257 & 31*

India 1st Innings

Australia 1st Innings

India 2nd Innings

Australia 2nd Innings

Match Flow

Info

India 1st Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Aakash Chopra	c Katich b MacGill	48	138	182	6	0	34.78
Virender Sehwag	c Bracken b Katich	195	233	312	25	5	83.69
Rahul Dravid	c Martyn b Waugh	49	89	105	5	0	55.05
Sachin Tendulkar	c †Gilchrist b Lee	0	1	3	0	0	0.00
Sourav Ganguly (c)	c Langer b Lee	37	63	90	6	0	58.73
VVS Laxman	c Hayden b MacGill	19	86	108	2	0	22.09
Parthiv Patel †	c †Gilchrist b Bracken	0	1	10	0	0	0.00
Ajit Agarkar	run out (Williams)	0	1	2	0	0	0.00
Anil Kumble	c Langer b Williams	3	12	22	0	0	25.00
Zaheer Khan	not out	0	1	5	0	0	0.00
Ashish Nehra	c †Gilchrist b MacGill	0	4	2	0	0	0.00
Extras	(lb 3, nb 11, w 1)	15
Total	103 Ov (RR: 3.55, 424 Mins)	366
Fall of wickets: 1-141 (Aakash Chopra, 42.6 ov), 2-278 (Rahul Dravid, 72.6 ov), 3-286 (Sachin Tendulkar, 74.1 ov), 4-311 (Virender Sehwag, 78.3 ov), 5-350 (Sourav Ganguly, 94.6 ov), 6-353 (Parthiv Patel, 97.1 ov), 7-353 (Ajit Agarkar, 97.2 ov), 8-366 (Anil Kumble, 101.5 ov), 9-366 (VVS Laxman, 102.2 ov), 10-366 (Ashish Nehra, 102.6 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Brett Lee	27	7	103	2	3.81	127	12	0	0	10
74.1 to SR Tendulkar, . 286/3 94.6 to SC Ganguly, . 350/5
Nathan Bracken	28	6	71	1	2.53	135	9	0	0	0
97.1 to PA Patel, . 353/6
Brad Williams	20	6	66	1	3.30	91	11	0	1	0
101.5 to A Kumble, . 366/8
Stuart MacGill	15	3	70	3	4.66	67	9	3	0	1
42.6 to A Chopra, . 141/1 102.2 to VVS Laxman, . 366/9 102.6 to A Nehra, . 366/10
Simon Katich	4	0	18	1	4.50	14	1	1	0	0
78.3 to V Sehwag, . 311/4
Steve Waugh	9	0	35	1	3.88	30	2	1	0	0
72.6 to R Dravid, . 278/2

Australia 1st Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Justin Langer	c Tendulkar b Agarkar	14	29	32	2	0	48.27
Matthew Hayden	lbw b Kumble	136	173	260	17	1	78.61
Ricky Ponting	st †Patel b Kumble	257	458	590	25	0	56.11
Adam Gilchrist †	c Nehra b Kumble	14	29	33	2	0	48.27
Damien Martyn	c †Patel b Agarkar	31	63	95	3	0	49.20
Steve Waugh (c)	lbw b Kumble	19	69	83	1	0	27.53
Simon Katich	c Chopra b Kumble	29	58	92	3	0	50.00
Brett Lee	c Laxman b Kumble	8	29	31	0	0	27.58
Nathan Bracken	c & b Tendulkar	1	5	6	0	0	20.00
Brad Williams	not out	10	11	10	0	1	90.90
Stuart MacGill	lbw b Agarkar	0	1	2	0	0	0.00
Extras	(b 4, lb 8, nb 17, w 5, pen 5)	39
Total	151.2 Ov (RR: 3.68, 626 Mins)	558
Fall of wickets: 1-30 (Justin Langer, 6.3 ov), 2-264 (Matthew Hayden, 60.4 ov), 3-295 (Adam Gilchrist, 68.4 ov), 4-373 (Damien Martyn, 92.4 ov), 4-373* (Steve Waugh, retired not out), 5-437 (Simon Katich, 114.4 ov), 6-502 (Steve Waugh, 136.1 ov), 7-535 (Brett Lee, 144.2 ov), 8-542 (Nathan Bracken, 145.6 ov), 9-555 (Ricky Ponting, 150.6 ov), 10-558 (Stuart MacGill, 151.2 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Ajit Agarkar	33.2	5	115	3	3.45	149	16	0	0	0
6.3 to JL Langer, . 30/1 92.4 to DR Martyn, . 373/4 151.2 to SCG MacGill, . 558/10
Zaheer Khan	25	4	103	0	4.12	110	10	0	1	9
Ashish Nehra	29	3	90	0	3.10	120	8	0	0	1
Anil Kumble	51	8	176	6	3.45	212	16	1	0	7
60.4 to ML Hayden, . 264/2 68.4 to AC Gilchrist, . 295/3 . 373/4 114.4 to SM Katich, . 437/5 136.1 to SR Waugh, . 502/6 144.2 to B Lee, . 535/7 150.6 to RT Ponting, . 555/9
Sachin Tendulkar	13	0	57	1	4.38	45	3	1	0	0
145.6 to NW Bracken, . 542/8

India 2nd Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Aakash Chopra	c †Gilchrist b Bracken	4	8	7	1	0	50.00
Virender Sehwag	c Williams b Lee	11	13	22	2	0	84.61
Rahul Dravid	c †Gilchrist b Lee	92	244	332	13	0	37.70
Sourav Ganguly (c)	b Bracken	73	125	164	12	0	58.40
Sachin Tendulkar	c †Gilchrist b Williams	44	79	107	5	0	55.69
VVS Laxman	c Hayden b MacGill	18	50	57	3	0	36.00
Parthiv Patel †	not out	27	50	-	4	0	54.00
Ajit Agarkar	b Williams	1	10	15	0	0	10.00
Anil Kumble	lbw b Williams	0	2	1	0	0	0.00
Zaheer Khan	c Hayden b Williams	1	8	16	0	0	12.50
Ashish Nehra	c Hayden b MacGill	0	17	20	0	0	0.00
Extras	(b 4, lb 3, nb 7, w 1)	15
Total	99.5 Ov (RR: 2.86, 410 Mins)	286
Fall of wickets: 1-5 (Aakash Chopra, 1.3 ov), 2-19 (Virender Sehwag, 4.5 ov), 2-39* (Sourav Ganguly, retired not out), 3-126 (Sachin Tendulkar, 42.3 ov), 4-160 (VVS Laxman, 56.6 ov), 5-253 (Rahul Dravid, 83.4 ov), 6-258 (Sourav Ganguly, 87.1 ov), 7-271 (Ajit Agarkar, 90.4 ov), 8-271 (Anil Kumble, 90.6 ov), 9-277 (Zaheer Khan, 94.3 ov), 10-286 (Ashish Nehra, 99.5 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Brett Lee	22	3	97	2	4.40	98	16	0	0	3
4.5 to V Sehwag, . 19/2 83.4 to R Dravid, . 253/5
Nathan Bracken	25	13	45	2	1.80	130	6	0	0	0
1.3 to A Chopra, . 5/1 . 39/2 87.1 to SC Ganguly, . 258/6
Brad Williams	22	5	53	4	2.40	111	9	0	1	0
42.3 to SR Tendulkar, . 126/3 90.4 to AB Agarkar, . 271/7 90.6 to A Kumble, . 271/8 94.3 to Z Khan, . 277/9
Stuart MacGill	26.5	5	68	2	2.53	127	8	0	0	4
56.6 to VVS Laxman, . 160/4 99.5 to A Nehra, . 286/10
Simon Katich	4	0	16	0	4.00	14	1	0	0	0

Australia 2nd Innings (T: 95 runs)

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Justin Langer	lbw b Agarkar	2	14	21	0	0	14.28
Matthew Hayden	not out	53	63	95	9	0	84.12
Ricky Ponting	not out	31	59	73	3	0	52.54
Extras	(b 4, lb 2, nb 4, w 1)	11
Total	22.2 Ov (RR: 4.34, 95 Mins)	97/1
Did not bat: Damien Martyn, Steve Waugh (c), Simon Katich, Adam Gilchrist †, Nathan Bracken, Brett Lee, Brad Williams, Stuart MacGill
Fall of wickets: 1-9 (Justin Langer, 4.2 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	4s	6s	WD	NB
Ajit Agarkar	7	2	25	1	3.57	29	3	0	0	0
4.2 to JL Langer, . 9/1
Ashish Nehra	6	3	16	0	2.66	30	2	0	1	0
Anil Kumble	6.2	0	43	0	6.78	23	6	0	0	2
Virender Sehwag	3	0	7	0	2.33	14	1	0	0	0

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Close of Play

Fri, 26 Dec - day 1 - India 1st innings 329/4 (Sourav Ganguly 20*, VVS Laxman 6*, 90 ov)

Sat, 27 Dec - day 2 - Australia 1st innings 317/3 (Ricky Ponting 120*, Damien Martyn 7*, 75 ov)

Sun, 28 Dec - day 3 - India 2nd innings 27/2 (Rahul Dravid 6*, Sourav Ganguly 6*, 11 ov)

Mon, 29 Dec - day 4 - India 2nd innings 286

Tue, 30 Dec - day 5 - Australia 2nd innings 97/1 (22.2 ov) - end of match

Match Flow

General

Day 1

India 50 in 93 minutes from 22.1 overs
Chopra/Sehwag 50 partnership in 93 minutes from 135 balls
V Sehwag's highest score against Australia in Tests (previous: 47 at Adelaide, 2003-04)
V Sehwag 50 in 114 minutes from 78 balls
Lunch: India 89/0 (Chopra 31*, Sehwag 51*, 27 overs)
India 100 in 127 minutes from 29.5 overs
Chopra/Sehwag 100 partnership in 127 minutes from 184 balls
A Chopra's highest score against Australia in Tests (previous: 36 at Brisbane, 2003-04)
Chopra/Sehwag partnership 141 runs in 182 minutes from 264 balls
India 150 in 195 minutes from 46.1 overs
V Sehwag 100 in 206 minutes from 144 balls
Sehwag/Dravid 50 partnership in 36 minutes from 60 balls
India 200 in 225 minutes from 54.5 overs
Tea: India 219/1 (Sehwag 137*, Dravid 23*, 57 overs)
Sehwag/Dravid 100 partnership in 78 minutes from 134 balls
V Sehwag's highest score in Tests (previous: 147 v West Indies at Mumbai, 2002-03)
V Sehwag 150 in 263 minutes from 200 balls
Sehwag/Dravid partnership 137 runs in 105 minutes from 181 balls
Sehwag/Tendulkar partnership 8 runs in 3 minutes from 7 balls
India 300 in 304 minutes from 76.1 overs
Sehwag/Ganguly partnership 25 runs in 19 minutes from 26 balls
Attendance: 62613
Second new ball taken after over 82
Play ended at 6.12pm

Day 2

India 350 in 383 minutes from 94.5 overs
Ganguly/Laxman partnership 39 runs in 70 minutes from 103 balls
Laxman/Patel partnership 3 runs in 10 minutes from 13 balls
Laxman/Agarkar partnership 0 runs in 2 minutes from 1 ball
Laxman/Kumble partnership 13 runs in 22 minutes from 27 balls
Laxman/Khan partnership 0 runs in 3 minutes from 3 balls
Khan/Nehra partnership 0 runs in 2 minutes from 4 balls
Langer/Hayden partnership 30 runs in 32 minutes from 40 balls
Australia 50 in 52 minutes from 10.4 overs
Hayden/Ponting 50 partnership in 67 minutes from 94 balls
Australia 100 in 110 minutes from 24.4 overs
ML Hayden 50 in 121 minutes from 71 balls
Hayden/Ponting 100 partnership in 105 minutes from 152 balls
RT Ponting 50 in 114 minutes from 87 balls
Tea: Australia 149/1 (Hayden 68*, Ponting 54*, 36 overs)
Australia 150 in 157 minutes from 36.1 overs
Hayden/Ponting 150 partnership in 153 minutes from 222 balls
Australia 200 in 206 minutes from 47.5 overs
Australia 250 in 251 minutes from 58.5 overs
ML Hayden 100 in 218 minutes from 136 balls
Hayden/Ponting 200 partnership in 209 minutes from 305 balls
Hayden/Ponting partnership 234 runs in 227 minutes from 330 balls
RT Ponting 100 in 237 minutes from 172 balls
Ponting/Gilchrist partnership 29 runs in 33 minutes from 51 balls
Australia 300 in 301 minutes from 69.5 overs
Attendance: 39566
Play ended at 6.48pm

Day 3

Second new ball taken after 83 overs
Australia 300 in 358 minutes from 85 overs
Ponting/Martyn 50 partnership in 59 minutes from 93 balls
Ponting/Martyn partnership 78 runs in 95 minutes from 145 balls
SR Waugh retired hurt on 0* from 373/4 to 437/5 (struck on elbow by Agarkar)
Lunch: Australia 396/4 (Ponting 162*, Katich 10*, 102 overs)
Australia 400 in 441 minutes from 103.1 overs
RT Ponting 150 in 338 minutes from 261 balls
Ponting/Katich 50 partnership in 70 minutes from 102 balls
Ponting/Katich partnership 64 runs in 92 minutes from 134 balls
Australia 450 in 502 minutes from 118 overs
Tea: Australia 480/5 (Ponting 212*, Waugh 12*, 131 overs)
Ponting/Waugh 50 partnership in 75 minutes from 116 balls
RT Ponting 200 in 483 minutes from 368 balls
Australia 500 in 567 minutes from 136 overs
Ponting/Waugh partnership 65 runs in 85 minutes from 130 balls
Ponting/Lee partnership 33 runs in 31 minutes from 50 balls
RT Ponting 250 in 571 minutes from 434 balls
Ponting/Bracken partnership 7 runs in 6 minutes from 10 balls
Australia 550 in 618 minutes from 149.4 overs
Ponting/Williams partnership 13 runs in 19 minutes from 30 balls
Williams/MacGill partnership 3 runs in 2 minutes from 2 balls
Attendance: 33256

Day 4

SC Ganguly (2) retired hurt on 16* from 39/2 to 160/4 (struck on the back of the head by Williams)
India 2nd Innings 50 (91 minutes, 16.0 overs)
India-2 Dravid/Tendulkar 50 partnership (66 minutes, 105 balls)
India 2nd innings 100 (149 minutes, 35.0 overs)
India-2 Dravid 50 (208 minutes, 145 balls)
India 2nd Innings 150 (220 minutes, 51.2 overs)
India-2 Dravid/Ganguly 50 partnership (69 minutes, 113 balls)
India-2 New Ball Taken after 80 overs
India-1 Ganguly 50 (139 minutes, 106 balls)
India 2nd Innings 250 (339 minutes, 83.2 overs)
Crowd Day 4: 14965

Day 5

Australia-2 50 (65 minutes, 14.1 overs)
Australia-2 Ponting/Hayden 50 partnership (50 minutes, 70 balls)
Australia-2 Hayden 50 (90 minutes, 62 balls)
Crowd Day 5: 29262
Match Complete at 12:39 local time

Match Details

Melbourne Cricket Ground
Toss	India, elected to bat first
Series	India tour of Australia
Season	2003/04
Player Of The Match	Ricky Ponting
Series result	4-match series level 1-1
Match number	Test no. 1678
Match days	day (5-day match)
Umpires	Billy Bowden David Shepherd
TV Umpire	Bob Parry
Match Referee	Mike Procter