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India Vs Australia (3rd Test at Chennai)    

Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 2000/01, 3rd Test
India v Australia
MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai
18,19,20,21,22 March 2001 (5-day match)

Result: India won by 2 wickets
Series: India wins the 3-Test series 2-1

Toss: Australia
Umpires: AV Jayaprakash and RE Koertzen (SA)
TV Umpire: CR Vijayaraghavan
Match Referee: CW Smith (WI)
Test Debuts: SV Bahutule, SS Dighe (Ind).
Men of the Match: Harbhajan Singh and ML Hayden
Man of the Series: Harbhajan Singh

Close of Play: Day 1: Australia 326/3 (Hayden 147*, SR Waugh 43*, 90 overs) Day 2: Australia 391, India 211/1 (Das 84*, Laxman 59*, 64 overs) Day 3: India 480/9 (Bahutule 4*, Kulkarni 0*, 154 overs) Day 4: India 501, Australia 241/7 (SR Waugh 43*, 80 overs)

Australia 1st innings                                           R   M   B  4 6
MJ Slater             c Laxman           b Khan                 4   2   3  1 0
ML Hayden             c Ganguly          b Harbhajan Singh    203 474 320 15 6
JL Langer             c Dravid           b Harbhajan Singh     35  53  35  6 1
ME Waugh              c sub (HK Badani)  b Bahutule            70 153 136  7 1
*SR Waugh             handled the ball                         47 176 150  4 1
RT Ponting            st Dighe           b Harbhajan Singh      0   2   1  0 0
+AC Gilchrist         lbw                b Harbhajan Singh      1   8   6  0 0
SK Warne              c Das              b Harbhajan Singh      0  36  23  0 0
JN Gillespie          c Ganguly          b Harbhajan Singh      0  13  11  0 0
CR Miller             c Bahutule         b Harbhajan Singh      0   8   4  0 0
GD McGrath            not out                                   3  15  13  0 0
Extras                (b 8, lb 10, nb 10)                      28
Total                 (all out, 115.2 overs, 474 mins)        391

FoW: 1-4 (Slater, 0.3 ov), 2-67 (Langer, 11.4 ov),
     3-217 (ME Waugh, 51.2 ov), 4-340 (SR Waugh, 95.4 ov),
     5-340 (Ponting, 95.5 ov), 6-344 (Gilchrist, 97.3 ov),
     7-374 (Warne, 105.6 ov), 8-376 (Gillespie, 109.4 ov),
     9-385 (Miller, 111.2 ov), 10-391 (Hayden, 115.2 ov).

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Khan                        15      5     57      1 (1nb)
Ganguly                      2      1     11      0 (1nb)
Harbhajan Singh             38.2    6    133      7
Kulkarni                    23      5     67      0
Bahutule                    21      3     70      1 (6nb)
Tendulkar                   16      1     35      0 (2nb)

India 1st innings                                               R   M   B  4 6
SS Das                lbw                b McGrath             84 261 186 10 1
S Ramesh              c Ponting          b Warne               61 164 133  6 0
VVS Laxman            c ME Waugh         b McGrath             65 125  87 11 0
SR Tendulkar          c Gilchrist        b Gillespie          126 346 230 15 2
*SC Ganguly           c Gilchrist        b McGrath             22 114  76  3 0
R Dravid              c Gilchrist        b Gillespie           81 178 140 12 1
+SS Dighe             lbw                b Warne                4  32  24  0 0
SV Bahutule           not out                                  21  88  58  1 1
Z Khan                               c & b Miller               4  25  20  0 0
Harbhajan Singh       c ME Waugh         b Miller               2   2   3  0 0
NM Kulkarni           lbw                b Miller               4  50  38  0 0
Extras                (b 19, lb 2, w 1, nb 5)                  27
Total                 (all out, 165 overs, 697 mins)          501

FoW: 1-123 (Ramesh, 41.4 ov), 2-211 (Das, 64.1 ov),
     3-237 (Laxman, 70.2 ov), 4-284 (Ganguly, 96.3 ov),
     5-453 (Dravid, 138.5 ov), 6-468 (Tendulkar, 144.1 ov),
     7-470 (Dighe, 145.6 ov), 8-475 (Khan, 152.2 ov),
     9-477 (Harbhajan Singh, 152.5 ov), 10-501 (Kulkarni, 164.6 ov).

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
McGrath                     36     15     75      3 (2nb)
Gillespie                   35     11     88      2 (1nb, 1w)
Miller                      46      6    160      3
Warne                       42      7    140      2 (2nb)
Ponting                      2      1      2      0
ME Waugh                     3      0      8      0
Hayden                       1      0      7      0

Australia 2nd innings                                           R   M   B  4 6
ML Hayden             c Khan             b Kulkarni            35  76  40  3 1
MJ Slater             c Laxman           b Harbhajan Singh     48  98  82  4 2
+AC Gilchrist         lbw                b Harbhajan Singh      1  11  11  0 0
JL Langer             c Laxman           b Bahutule            21  75  54  2 1
ME Waugh              c Dravid           b Harbhajan Singh     57 142 139  7 0
*SR Waugh             c Das              b Harbhajan Singh     47 166 125  5 0
RT Ponting            c Dravid           b Harbhajan Singh     11  29  25  0 1
SK Warne              lbw                b Harbhajan Singh     11  35  28  2 0
JN Gillespie          c Dravid           b Harbhajan Singh      2  46  47  0 0
CR Miller             lbw                b Harbhajan Singh      2  42  27  0 0
GD McGrath            not out                                  11  19  13  1 0
Extras                (b 8, lb 6, nb 4)                        18
Total                 (all out, 97.5 overs, 373 mins)         264

FoW: 1-82 (Hayden, 18.2 ov), 2-84 (Gilchrist, 21.2 ov),
     3-93 (Slater, 23.4 ov), 4-141 (Langer, 40.6 ov),
     5-193 (ME Waugh, 63.5 ov), 6-211 (Ponting, 71.4 ov),
     7-241 (Warne, 79.6 ov), 8-246 (SR Waugh, 87.1 ov),
     9-251 (Gillespie, 93.6 ov), 10-264 (Miller, 97.5 ov).

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Khan                         4      0     13      0
Ganguly                      1      0      8      0
Harbhajan Singh             41.5   20     84      8
Kulkarni                    30     11     70      1
Tendulkar                   12      0     43      0 (1nb)
Bahutule                     9      0     32      1 (3nb)

India 2nd innings (target: 155 runs)                            R   M   B  4 6
SS Das                               c & b McGrath              9  35  17  2 0
S Ramesh              run out (Ponting/Gilchrist)              25  98  53  3 0
VVS Laxman            c ME Waugh         b Miller              66 136  82 12 0
SR Tendulkar          c ME Waugh         b Gillespie           17  27  17  3 0
*SC Ganguly           c ME Waugh         b Gillespie            4   9   5  1 0
R Dravid              c SR Waugh         b Miller               4   8   5  1 0
+SS Dighe             not out                                  22  73  48  3 0
SV Bahutule           c Warne            b Miller               0   3   3  0 0
Z Khan                c ME Waugh         b McGrath              0  31  14  0 0
Harbhajan Singh       not out                                   3  12   5  0 0
Extras                (lb 3, nb 2)                              5
Total                 (8 wickets, 41.1 overs, 219 mins)       155

DNB: NM Kulkarni.

FoW: 1-18 (Das, 4.6 ov), 2-76 (Ramesh, 19.3 ov),
     3-101 (Tendulkar, 24.3 ov), 4-117 (Ganguly, 26.2 ov),
     5-122 (Dravid, 27.6 ov), 6-135 (Laxman, 33.2 ov),
     7-135 (Bahutule, 33.5 ov), 8-151 (Khan, 39.3 ov).

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
McGrath                     11.1    3     21      2
Gillespie                   15      2     49      2
Miller                       9      1     41      3
Warne                        6      0     41      0 (2nb)

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