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India's Tour of Australia 2007/08 : 1st Test at Melbourne (Dec 26-30)

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Venue : Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Toss : Australia won the toss and elected to bat first Umpires : Mark Benson (Eng) and Billy Bowden (NZ) Match Result : Australia won by 337 runs to lead the 4-Test Series 1-0 Man of the Match : Matthew Hayden Match Reports : Aussies name their XII for Boxing Day Test I The Great Australian Roller Coaster comes crashing down I India surrender huge lead after Clark's triple blow I Aussies set a daunting task for India I India goes down without a fight Total : 343 all out Overs : 92.4 Australia 1st Innings R B 4s 6s Phil Jaques st Dhoni b Kumble 66 108 8 0 Matthew Hayden c Dravid b Zaheer Khan 124 183 9 0 Ricky Ponting (C) b Zaheer Khan 4 13 0 0 Michael Hussey lbw b Kumble 2 3 0 0 Michael Clarke c Laxman b RP Singh 20 60 0 0 Andrew Symonds c sub (Dinesh Karthik) b Kumble 35 42 5 0 Adam Gilchrist (WK) c Tendulkar b Kumble 23 42 1 0 Brad Hogg c Dravid b Zaheer Khan 17 44 0 0 Brett Lee lbw b Kumble 0 12 0 0 Mitchell Johnson not out 15 35 1 1 Stuart Clark c Harbhajan Singh b Zaheer Khan 21 23 4 0 Wides : 2 No Balls: 9 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 5 Extras: 16 Fall of Wickets 1-135 (Jaques, 33.4 ovs), 2-162 (Ponting, 38.5 ovs), 3-165 (Hussey, 39.3 ovs), 4-225 (Clarke, 59.1 ovs), 5-241 (Hayden, 62.3 ovs), 6-281 (Symonds, 71.4 ovs), 7-288 (Gilchrist, 75.3 ovs), 8-294 (Lee, 79.2 ovs), 9-312 (Hogg, 86.1 ovs), 10-343 (Clark, 92.4 ovs) India O M R W Wd Nb Zaheer Khan 23.4 1 94 4 1 8 RP Singh 20 3 82 1 1 0 Harbhajan Singh 20 3 61 0 0 0 Ganguly 3 1 15 0 0 1 Kumble 25 4 84 5 0 0 Tendulkar 1 0 2 0 0 0 Your browser does not support inline frames or is currently configured not to display inline frames. Your browser does not support inline frames or is currently configured not to display inline frames.

Total : 196 all out Overs : 71.5 India 1st Innings R B 4s 6s Wasim Jaffer c Gilchrist b Lee 4 27 0 0 Rahul Dravid lbw b Clark 5 66 0 0 VVS Laxman c Ponting b Lee 26 56 1 0 Sachin Tendulkar b Clark 62 77 8 1 Sourav Ganguly b Hogg 43 79 1 1 Yuvraj Singh c Gilchrist b Clark 0 11 0 0 M.S. Dhoni (WK) lbw b Clark 0 2 0 0 Anil Kumble (C) c Gilchrist b Lee 27 76 4 0 Harbhajan Singh c Clarke b Hogg 2 24 0 0 Zaheer Khan c Gilchrist b Lee 11 14 2 0 R.P.Singh not out 2 6 0 0 Wides : 0 No Balls: 7 Byes: 4 Leg Byes: 3 Extras: 14 Fall of Wickets 1-4 (Jaffer, 8.3 ovs), 2-31 (Dravid, 21.4 ovs), 3-55 (Laxman, 30.1 ovs), 4-120 (Tendulkar, 45.1 ovs), 5-122 (Yuvraj Singh, 47.4 ovs), 6-122 (Dhoni, 47.6 ovs), 7-166 (Ganguly, 60.1 ovs), 8-173 (Harbhajan Singh, 66.6 ovs), 9-193 (Kumble, 69.6 ovs), 10-196 (Zaheer Khan, 71.5 ovs) Australia O M R W Wd Nb Brett Lee 19.5 6 46 4 0 6 Mitchell Johnson 13 5 25 0 0 1 Andrew Symonds 3 1 8 0 0 0 Stuart Clark 15 4 28 4 0 0 Brad Hogg 21 3 82 2 0 0 Your browser does not support inline frames or is currently configured not to display inline frames. Total : 351/7 declared Overs : 88.0 Australia 2nd Innings R B 4s 6s Phil Jaques c&b Kumble 51 103 5 0 Matthew Hayden c Ganguly b Harbhajan Singh 47 54 6 0 Ricky Ponting (C) c Dravid b Harbhajan Singh 3 7 0 0 Michael Hussey c Tendulkar b RP Singh 36 84 0 0 Michael Clarke st Dhoni b Kumble 73 113 6 0 Andrew Symonds lbw b Zaheer Khan 44 52 4 2 Adam Gilchrist (WK) c RP Singh b Harbhajan Singh 35 59 4 0 Brad Hogg not out 34 49 1 2 Brett Lee not out 12 19 1 0 Mitchell Johnson Stuart Clark Wides : 0 No Balls: 13 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 3 Extras: 16 Fall of Wickets 1-83 (Hayden, 18.5 ovs), 2-89 (Ponting, 20.2 ovs), 3-139 (Jaques, 38.2 ovs), 4-161 (Hussey, 45.1 ovs), 5-243 (Symonds, 61.5 ovs), 6-288 (Clarke, 73.1 ovs), 7-316 (Gilchrist, 80.5 ovs) India O M R W Wd Nb Zaheer Khan 20 2 93 1 0 12 RP Singh 16 1 50 1 0 0 Kumble 25 2 102 2 0 0 Harbhajan Singh 26 0 101 3 0 0 Tendulkar 1 0 2 0 0 0 Total : 161 all out Overs : 74.0 India 2nd Innings (Target : 499) R B 4s 6s Rahul Dravid lbw b Symonds 16 114 2 0 Wasim Jaffer c Gilchrist b Lee 15 40 2 0 VVS Laxman c Clarke b Clark 42 112 6 0 Sachin Tendulkar c Gilchrist b Lee 15 21