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India hit back after controversial Tendulkar dismissal
Brisbane, Dec 07: Sachin Tendulkar was controversially given out for a third-ball duck as India lost three quick wickets on the fourth day of the rain-hit first Test against Australia today.
Brisbane, Dec 07: Sachin Tendulkar was controversially given out for a third-ball duck as India lost three quick wickets on the fourth day of the rain-hit first Test against Australia today.
Opener Virender Sehwag, Vice-Captain Rahul Dravid and Tendulkar were all removed in the space of 23 balls as the tourists slumped to 62 for three after starting the day on 11 without loss.
However, opener Akash Chopra and Captain Saurav Ganguly steadied the ship with an unbroken partnership of 65 to help India reach lunch at 127 for three in reply to Australia's first innings 323. Tendulkar, the victim of three debatable decisions when India toured Australia four years ago, was given out leg before wicket by West Indian umpire Steve Bucknor after leaving a delivery from Jason Gillespie.
Gillespie offered a half-hearted appeal but quickly gave up and was walking back to his bowling mark when Bucknor raised his finger.
No one was more surprised than Tendulkar, who was struck by the ball above the pad. Television replays suggested it would have sailed well over the stumps. Sehwag raced to 45 off 49 balls before he edged a ball from debutant Nathan Bracken to Matthew Hayden at slip with the total on 61. It was the left-arm paceman's first Test wicket.
Hayden then took a second, more difficult catch low to the ground to remove Dravid for one when he prodded at a ball from Gillespie.
Ganguly struck five fours to reach lunch unbeaten on 37 while the more cautious Chopra was 36 not out.
Bucknor was at the centre of another controversial decision when he gave Chopra not out on 27 after an appeal for a catch by Simon Katich at short leg off leg spinner Stuart Macgill.
Bureau Report
However, opener Akash Chopra and Captain Saurav Ganguly steadied the ship with an unbroken partnership of 65 to help India reach lunch at 127 for three in reply to Australia's first innings 323. Tendulkar, the victim of three debatable decisions when India toured Australia four years ago, was given out leg before wicket by West Indian umpire Steve Bucknor after leaving a delivery from Jason Gillespie.
Gillespie offered a half-hearted appeal but quickly gave up and was walking back to his bowling mark when Bucknor raised his finger.
No one was more surprised than Tendulkar, who was struck by the ball above the pad. Television replays suggested it would have sailed well over the stumps. Sehwag raced to 45 off 49 balls before he edged a ball from debutant Nathan Bracken to Matthew Hayden at slip with the total on 61. It was the left-arm paceman's first Test wicket.
Hayden then took a second, more difficult catch low to the ground to remove Dravid for one when he prodded at a ball from Gillespie.
Ganguly struck five fours to reach lunch unbeaten on 37 while the more cautious Chopra was 36 not out.
Bucknor was at the centre of another controversial decision when he gave Chopra not out on 27 after an appeal for a catch by Simon Katich at short leg off leg spinner Stuart Macgill.
Bureau Report