Australia tour of India 2012-13, India Vs Australia 3rd Test at Mohali - Mar 14-18, 2013.
Australia are in the danger of losing the Third Test at Mohali after losing three top order wickets in 21 overs before stumps on Day 4. The visitors were jolted by Bhuvneshwar Kumar who used both conventional and reverse swing to take all the three wickets to fall to give India hopes of a victory. The visitors finished the penultimate day’s play at 75 for 3 with a deficit of 16 more runs to score.
Australia with 21 overs to bat through lost the big wicket of David Warner in just the third ball of the innings! Warner didn’t move his feet and chased a widish away swinger from Bhuvneshwar Kumar with a rash square cut and got caught behind. Kumar who shifted ends for a second spell, struck again in the 8th over by trapping Ed Cowan lbw infront of leg and middle with a late inswinger that kept low.
Just when Kumar’s spell for the day was coming to an end, he surprised everyone with a magic delivery that uprooted the off stump of Steven Smith. It was a length ball that was angling in towards middle but deviated away with low bounce after landing on the surface to beat the frontfoot defence and smack the off stump. Apart from Kumar, Ashwin produced quite a lot of magic deliveries but was unlucky not to get amongst the wickets. For the Aussies, Phil Hughes who has been struggling to get going in this series rode his luck and scored a chancy 53* from 68 balls with 9 fours and a six. Never ever was Hughes comfortable at the crease but he was severe on anything that was wide outside off and collected boundaries in a hurry. At Stumps, Australia have night watchman Nathan Lyon (4* from 17 balls) with Hughes. Clarke could not come out to bat yet because of his lower back trouble.
Australia are in the danger of losing the Third Test at Mohali after losing three top order wickets in 21 overs before stumps on Day 4. The visitors were jolted by Bhuvneshwar Kumar who used both conventional and reverse swing to take all the three wickets to fall to give India hopes of a victory. The visitors finished the penultimate day’s play at 75 for 3 with a deficit of 16 more runs to score.
Australia with 21 overs to bat through lost the big wicket of David Warner in just the third ball of the innings! Warner didn’t move his feet and chased a widish away swinger from Bhuvneshwar Kumar with a rash square cut and got caught behind. Kumar who shifted ends for a second spell, struck again in the 8th over by trapping Ed Cowan lbw infront of leg and middle with a late inswinger that kept low.
Just when Kumar’s spell for the day was coming to an end, he surprised everyone with a magic delivery that uprooted the off stump of Steven Smith. It was a length ball that was angling in towards middle but deviated away with low bounce after landing on the surface to beat the frontfoot defence and smack the off stump. Apart from Kumar, Ashwin produced quite a lot of magic deliveries but was unlucky not to get amongst the wickets. For the Aussies, Phil Hughes who has been struggling to get going in this series rode his luck and scored a chancy 53* from 68 balls with 9 fours and a six. Never ever was Hughes comfortable at the crease but he was severe on anything that was wide outside off and collected boundaries in a hurry. At Stumps, Australia have night watchman Nathan Lyon (4* from 17 balls) with Hughes. Clarke could not come out to bat yet because of his lower back trouble.
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