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India v Australia, 4th Test: Review

India beat Australia 2-0 and regained the Border Gavaskar Trophy in style and this heralds a new world order in world cricket.
Australia are no more the dominant force that they were once. It is now very clear that Ricky Ponting is an ordinary captain who squandered the chance to win a test in Bangalore and […]

I don’t regret Watson incident: Gambhir

Gautam Gambhir, the Indian opener, says he does not regret elbowing Shane Watson, an action that earned him a one-Test ban. Gambhir, who missed the final Test of the series India won 2-0, also felt “sledging should be stopped” if the authorities felt what he did was wrong.
“No gentleman can hear things that Aussies were […]

India win 4th test, series 2-0

India sealed their first Test series victory over top-ranked Australia in seven years on Monday after Amit Mishra and Harbhajan Singh spun the hosts to a resounding 172-run win in the fourth and final Test.
Leg-spinner Mishra and off-spinner Harbhajan shared seven wickets to bowl out Australia for 209 in their second innings with almost a […]

Australia fined for slow over rate

The Australia team was fined for maintaining a slow over-rate during its 172-run defeat against India in the fourth and final Test played on Monday.
Skipper Ricky Ponting was fined 20 per cent of his match fee while his players will each pay 10 per cent as fine. Chris Broad of the Emirates Elite Panel of […]

India deserved to win: Ponting

Australian captain Ricky Ponting on Monday said India deserved to win the Border-Gavaskar trophy because his teammates “weren’t good enough” in the two matches they lost to the hosts.
“It’s been a fair result, to tell you the truth,” a candid Ponting said after Australia lost the fourth and final Test by 172 runs to India.
“It […]

India v Australia, 4th Test: Australia lose three wickets

Australia started faltering in their chase of 382 set for a win on the final day against India at Nagpur.
They lost Simon Katich early and then Ricky Ponting ran himself out needlessly leaving them stranded at 2 for 37. Ishant then took his second wicket of the morning when he got Michael Clarke out edging […]

Ponting slammed for baffling tactics

Ricky Ponting’s move on the fifth day of the Nagpur Test to employ part timers instead of his regular pacers after the tea interval has come under heavy criticism. The Australian skipper who wanted to step up the slow over-rate to avoid a ban in the next Test match was lambasted by former players and […]

Aussie media condemns Indian tactics

India’s defensive tactics on the third day of the ongoing fourth Test against Australia came in for scathing criticism from the media Down Under which lambasted the hosts for “killing the game” and showing scant respect for the spectators with their “negative” approach.
“Towards the end of the first session the screen reported that ‘of 100 […]

India v Australia, 4th Test: Aussies bowled out for 355

India took a healthy first innings lead of 86 runs on the third day of the fourth test against Australia at Nagpur in the Border Gavaskar Trophy 2008.
Live score - India vs Australia - 4th Test
Australia started the day at 189 for 2 and lost Katich immediately after he completed his century, trapped lbw by […]

Harbhajan takes 300th wicket

Harbhajan Singh, with Ricky Ponting’s wicket, became the third Indian bowler and the 22nd in the cricketing world to bag 300 Test wickets, on the second day of the fourth Test against Australia here Friday.The other two in the 300 club are Anil Kumble (619) and Kapil Dev (434).
This was the tenth time he got […]

India v Australia, 4th Test: India 311 for 5 at stumps

Sachin Tendulkar’s 40th test century took India’s score to 311 runs for the loss of five wickets at the close of first day’s play in Nagpur.
Tendulkar, riding his luck, got two lives when he was dropped by Mitchell Johnson and Brett Lee off debutant Jason Krejza. He made most of the opportunities and got to […]

Live Scorecard- India vs Australia - 4th Test

Australia in India, 2008

India vs Australia, 4th Test

Vidarbha C.A. Ground, Nagpur, November 6-10, 2008

Match Information

Umpires:
Billy Bowden (NZ) & Aleem Dar (Pak)

Third Umpire:
Suresh Shastri (Ind)

Match Referee:
Chris Broad (Eng)

Toss:
India (Elected to bat)

Match Status:
India won by 172 runs

Man of the Match:
Jason Krejza

Man of the Series:
Ishant Sharma

Batting: India 1st Innings

Batsmen
India (441/10 in 124.5 ovs)
Runs
Balls
4’s
6’s
SR

Virender Sehwag
b J Krejza
66
69
9
1
95.65

Murali […]

Laxman hopes for a great 100th Test

Indian batsman Venkatsai Laxman on Wednesday said he was hoping for a “special” performance in his 100th Test against Australia, the team he has smashed more centuries past than any other.
Laxman has scored six of his 13 hundreds against Australia, including two double-centuries, and is only the second Indian after Sachin Tendulkar to have made […]

Ponting hopes to beat distracted India

Australia captain Ricky Ponting hopes to exploit a distracted Indian team in the must-win fourth cricket Test following the International Cricket Council’s decision to uphold opener Gautam Gambhir’s one-match ban.
Ponting remains uncertain whether the suspension of Gambhir, who elbowed Australian Shane Watson in the chest while attempting a run during the drawn third Test in […]

India v Australia, 4th Test Preview

India and Australia take on each other in the fourth test beginning November 6th at the newly built Vidarbha Cricket Association on the outskirts of Nagpur city.
Australia will only be too happy that a long arduous tour will come to an end soon enough, but they would want to go out on a high, winning […]

BCCI miffed with ICC over Gambhir

The Indian cricket board appears to be heading for a confrontation with ICC over the one-Test ban on Gautam Gambhir. While the BCCI has rejected the decision of the appeals commissioner, Justice Albie Sachs, to uphold the ban, and issued a strongly worded protest, the ICC has said the “matter is closed”.
“The ICC Code of […]

Teams yet to train in new stadium

Ganguly was one of two players - Zaheer being the other - who didn’t practice at the old Vidharba Cricket Association on Tuesday because practice facilities aren’t complete at the new Test venue.
“Zaheer did a lot of bowling in the last three Tests and Sourav is feeling fatigued with the traveling. They are both fit […]

Harbhajan fit to play in Nagpur

A toe injury forced Harbhajan Singh out of the Delhi Test and denied him the opportunity of bowling in tandem with Anil Kumble for one last time, but the offspinner is now “100% fit” and ready to bear the responsibility of being India’s premier slow bowler.
Winning the Border-Gavaskar Trophy is the biggest stake for India […]

ICC upholds Gambhir’s ban; misses Nagpur Test

India suffered a huge jolt ahead of the fourth and final Test against Australia with the ICC Appeals Commissioner upholding Gautam Gambhir’s one-Test ban imposed on the in-form opener for elbowing Shane Watson in the last match.
The ICC Commissioner Justice Albie Sach’s decision not to overturn the one-match ban, slapped by Match Referee Chris […]

Gambhir jumps up in world rankings

Indian opener Gautam Gambhir jumped 11 places to achieve his career-best Test ranking of 18th in the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) player rankings list.
Anil Kumble, who retired from international cricket Sunday, ended his illustrious 132-Test career in 19th position in the bowlers’ list. It is, however, his lowest ranking since January 1993 when he had […]