da realsbet： India on Sunday completed their first victory of their 1999/2000Australian tour, defeating New South Wales by 93 runs thisafternoon
Rick Eyre05-Dec-1999India on Sunday completed their first victory of their 1999/2000Australian tour, defeating New South Wales by 93 runs thisafternoon. The final three wickets fell in 27 minutes after the teaadjournment.Under overcast and humid conditions, NSW batted slowly through thepre-lunch session on the final day. Needing 222 today to win, theBlues scored just 42 runs in two hours for the loss of one wicket,going to lunch at 106 for two. Though a batting lineup capable of 180in four hours was still in the pavilion, it was obvious it wouldrequire a major change in attitude from what was on display in themorning.Nightwatchman Gavin Robertson (10) added two runs to his overnightscore before being trapped lbw not playing a shot by a Srinathdelivery which nipped in slightly from the off. Umpire Simon Taufel,who had been the genesis of much Indian angst in the final oversyesterday, gave the decision and NSW were 80 for two.Greg Hayne brought his maiden first-class half-century from his 85thdelivery, achieved from 84 runs scored by his side.NSW captain Michael Bevan looked unimpressive and was almost dismissedbefore getting off the mark when he popped a short ball from Srinathjust out of the reach of Vijay Bharadwaj at short leg. Bevan tookeighteen deliveries to get off the mark.Only one boundary was scored in the whole morning session, Haynegliding Agarkar through point about half an hour before lunch. VijayBharadwaj (9-4-6-0) was given his first bowling spell of the match andwas getting some useful turn with his off-breaks. He was replaced byHH Kanitkar for one tame over before lunch. At the interval Hayne was59 and Bevan 11 from 79 balls.India struck hard in the post lunch session and looked poised forvictory at the tea break. With the Blues choosing to go for a drawinstead of a win, five wickets fell for the addition of 65 runs in themid-afternoon session and the home team went to tea at 171 for seven.Bevan’s dismal captain’s knock ended shortly after lunch when hepadded up to Javagal Srinath and Simon Taufel gave the lbwverdict. Bevan scored 11 from 85 deliveries, a pace even slower thanthat of Rahul Dravid earlier in the match.Venkatesh Prasad struck twice in the same over. Shane Lee glided thefirst ball of the over through slips, then edged the next delivery toGanguly at first slip, his cameo being worth a total of six. MichaelClarke got off the mark first ball with a two, but three deliverieslater was well beaten for pace, his off stump sent flying. NSW werenow 117 for five.Soon afterwards, Srinath had a very confident lbw appeal to Greg Hayneturned down. As he showed visible disappointment at the decision,Taufel had a quiet word with him as he delivered the bowler’s cap. Inthe following over Darrel Hair and Saurav Ganguly had a briefdiscussion. Late on Saturday, Hair had warned Ganguly about the Indianplayers showing dissent after the viewing of video replays on the bigscreen.The presence of Brad Haddin (19) at the crease promised much but hedelivered little, the dashing wicketkeeper beaten for pace and bowledby Ajit Agarkar. Corey Richards, suffering a bruised hip from thefirst innings, came to the crease with Greg Mail as a runner. Richardswas showing obviously restrictions of movement, taking a bouncer onthe body from Agarkar at one stage.On Saturday afternoon Greg Hayne had been scoring at almost arun-a-ball. On Sunday he could have been more different. Grafting hisway closer to what would have been his maiden first-class century, hewas on 89, he got an edge to a Kumble googly which was taken by Dravidbehind the wicket. Tea was taken with the dismissal, Hayne havingscored 53 runs in four hours today.The end came swiftly in the final session. The embattled CoreyRichards played just one scoring shot, a flick off the pads for four,before edging Kumble to Ganguly at first slip. Brett Lee was struck apainful blow on the thigh by Agarkar which required a visit from thephysio before MacGill (0) went for a swoosh against Kumble and wasbowled. Three balls later in the over, Don Nash lamely lobbed the ballto Javagal Srinath without scoring and the match was over.For the second time in the game, Kumble had cleaned up the tail tofinish with 4/38 and match figures of 8/88.India recovered from a poor first day against the only team with aminus score on the Pura Milk Cup points table. As long as thecontroversies of Saturday evening can be cast aside, their stocks willbe high going into Tuesday’s festival match against the PrimeMinister’s XI in Canberra, and then on to the First Test at Adelaidestarting Friday.