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The Second Test in the Australian cricket team's tour of India in early 2001 was a Test match played over five days at Eden Gardens in Kolkata from 11–15 March 2001. India won the match by 171 runs after being forced to follow-on , only the third time this has happened since Test cricket began in 1877.
Australia batted first and centuries from Ricky Ponting and Michael Hussey makes them put a score of 430 Indian pacer Zaheer Khan took five wickets. India reply with 360 with half centuries from Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh. Australia declared their second innings at 228/6 setting up India a target of 299 in the final day of play and India ...
India made four changes for the final test and Australia made just one, with Mitchell Johnson out. The Australians won the toss and elected to bat for the third time in the series. Chris Rogers and Warner started quickly. The run-rate was then slowed, but Warner (63*) and Rogers (52*) put on a 100-run opening stand as Australia reached 0/123 at ...
They had successes in the initial tours starting 1956–57, while India's successes came only in the later series. Australia had last won there in 1969–70, in their fourth visit. The tour preceding 2004–05, was in 2000–01, which ended 2–1 in India's favor, dubbed as one of India's greatest Test series wins of all time. [1]
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With only one specialist batsman remaining, Australia were at 6/135, with India having the clear upper hand. [10] The new batsman Brad Hogg played his natural attacking game while Symonds started slowly. The two batsmen put the pressure back on India and took the score to 6/193 in the 47th over, having scored 56 off the last 10 overs.
Clarke's innings is the highest score and the first Test triple century at the SCG, and third-highest score by an Australian captain in Test cricket, behind Mark Taylor (334*) and Sir Donald Bradman (334). Clarke also took Tendulkar's wicket in the second innings. Ricky Ponting's 134 broke a slump of 31 Test innings without a century.
The Australian cricket team toured India from February to April 2001 for a three-Test series and a five-match ODI series. The series is considered one of India's finest, as they secured victory against Australia in the Test series, in the process breaking Australia's 16-match win streak in Tests, and being the third side to win a Test match after being asked to follow-on during the match in ...