The Young India proved themselves at Vizag!!

At last,Micheal Clark got his much awaited big knock in the ongoing tour, but it went in vain before the young enthusiastic Indian batting on display last night at the YSR (A to Z) stadium at Vizag. Indians kept their record intact winning the third match in a row at this stadium. Both teams had the similar type of innings losing two quick wickets at the start and then a having a century partnership for the third wicket between a left handed and a right-handed batsman( right hander got hundred & left hander gets fifty). The only difference is that the Indian scoring rate was better than the Aussies.


India started well taking two quick wickets of Marsh and Paine, and kept on bowling good lines and lengths and made the Aussie batsmen work for runs. Australia were 30/2 at the end of 10 overs. Clark and Hussey pulled of a century partnership to study the ship..Micheal clark played a patient innings with some good hits at the end of the innings to reach his hundred. Even though ,the Australians seem to be going at a very slow rate, Cameron White took the Indian bowlers to the cleaners at the end to reach a good score of 289/3.

Aussies with the young bowling attack got the first wicket on the second ball, when an in-swinger from Mccay beat the defenses of the debutant Shikhar Dhawan to take the off-stump. Later,Vijay who looked in good touch faint-edged a length ball into the hands of Paine after a brief innings. Despite of losing the two early wickets, India kept the pressure on the Aussie bowlers, scoring singles,twos at ease and getting boundaries of the loose deliveries.

Kohli played the Clark's role in the indian innings building a century partner ship with Yuvraj, who wasn't  though at his best, hit some good boundaries. After reaching fifty, Yuvraj tried to pull a slow delivery from Mccay to mid-wicket, only missing it onto the off stump. On previous ball. he was frustrated by the refusal of a possible single by Dhawan at the non-striker end who was running for Kohli because of cramps.

Suresh Raina wasted no time like Cameron White who took time to settle during the Aussie innings.Raina was fabulous with his timing and choosing the right deliveries to hit. With the runs flowing from the other end from Raina's bat, Kohli just rotated the strike and reached his Third ODI Hundred, nearly run a ball. As usual, India had a brief collapse at the end, but Raina stood fluent hitting the boundaries on will and the second debutant of India today, Saurabh Tiwary got the chance of finishing victory.

The Resurgence Of Test Cricket

Test Cricket has always been the most preferred by the cricketing giants when asked about the best form of cricket.It may not be the most watched form of the game, but a good test match between two tough teams, keeps the cricket lovers on the edge for a long time.In these times,where even a two hour movie can't grip the audience intact, keeping them for 5 days is not that easy.Anyway,the glamorous T20 should be given its due credit for the increase in the test matches getting results.

I am not really going into the stats, but one can see the results every where now.The recently concluded India Vs Australia(2-0) test series for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, has been one of the big hits of the test arena, where the two teams were very competitive and as Ravi Sastry would say "The fortunes were fluctuated from one team to the other".

 The Australians who are known to be a tough team in any format, fought hard as always to give their Captain the first win in India and they almost got it in the first test.The 2-0 result may not show really how close the winning margin was. Everybody who watched the two matches know that 9 of the 10 days were evenly poised.

The series has some very good knocks including a double hundred from the maestro and good bowling spells from both sides.The first match drew the attention of the people with a stunning finish and gathered crowds for the second test, who supported India undoubtedly, but appreciated the Australians hard work, at times too.

In the two test  matches,we can see that both teams were really trying for a result..In both matches we have a 400+ score in the first and second innings and a 200 around score in the third and fourth Innings.Unlike the earlier times, the batting team is really trying to press the paddle after reaching around 400. It forced the test match to have a result in both the occasions.

It is also true that the teams lost their way in trying to increase the scoring rate at times,which may not happen every time. But a test match with a result is what every one ask for and when we are getting it, every one should be happy.