It was India's day till Brad Hogg joined Andrew Symonds. Well, lets start from the start, India lost Zaheer to a heel injury and went in with Ishant. RP lead the attack well, by picking up Jacques and Hayden cheaply. Ponting and Hussey started steadying the Australian innings when Ganguly got Ponting to nick a ball on leg side. But, umpire Benson could not hear/see it. So Ponting continued merrily. By lunch Australia were threatening a huge score.
The post-lunch session is one of the weirdest you will see. Australia lost 4 wickets for around 20 runs. Ponting was given lbw of an inside edge. The irony was that Benson again failed to see the inside edge. The singhs worked well to get rid of ponting, hussey, clarke and gilly. Then Brad hogg came out and started to play like there was no tomorrow. That's when everything started to go wrong. Andrew Symonds was given not out twice on decisions that would have been given out 999 out of 1000 times. It was absolutely stupid to see such poor umpiring decisions ruining the spirit of Indian team. Well guess what, Symonds goes on to make a huge century and is still unbeaten. With that the chances of restricting Australia to a small total vanished.
Let's see if India has any luck on day 2.
The post-lunch session is one of the weirdest you will see. Australia lost 4 wickets for around 20 runs. Ponting was given lbw of an inside edge. The irony was that Benson again failed to see the inside edge. The singhs worked well to get rid of ponting, hussey, clarke and gilly. Then Brad hogg came out and started to play like there was no tomorrow. That's when everything started to go wrong. Andrew Symonds was given not out twice on decisions that would have been given out 999 out of 1000 times. It was absolutely stupid to see such poor umpiring decisions ruining the spirit of Indian team. Well guess what, Symonds goes on to make a huge century and is still unbeaten. With that the chances of restricting Australia to a small total vanished.
Let's see if India has any luck on day 2.
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