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Australia vs India (1st Test Match)

India in Australia, 2003-04, 1st Test
Australia v India
Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Brisbane
4,5,6,7,8 December 2003 (5-day match)

Result:
Series:

Toss: India
Umpires: SA Bucknor (WI) and RE Koertzen
TV Umpire: PD Parker
Match Referee: MJ Procter (SA)
Test Debut: NW Bracken (Australia).
Man of the Match:

Australia 1st innings                                           R   M   B  4 6
JL Langer             lbw                b Agarkar            121 325 194 17 0
ML Hayden             c Laxman           b Khan                37  81  52  6 0
RT Ponting            c Patel            b Khan                54 125  88  7 1
DR Martyn             run out (Harbhajan Singh/Patel/Ganguly)  42 122  79  5 0
*SR Waugh             hit wicket         b Khan                 0   9   4  0 0
SM Katich             c Patel            b Khan                16  41  25  4 0
+AC Gilchrist         c Laxman           b Khan                 0   7   4  0 0
AJ Bichel             c Laxman           b Agarkar             11  16  10  2 0
JN Gillespie          run out (Harbhajan Singh/Agarkar)         8  19  11  0 0
NW Bracken            not out                                   6  18  13  0 0
SCG MacGill           c Chopra           b Agarkar              1  11   3  0 0
Extras                (b 4, lb 7, w 2, nb 14)                  27
Total                 (all out, 78.1 overs, 391 mins)         323

FoW: 1-73 (Hayden, 15.2 ov), 2-162 (Ponting, 41.4 ov),
     3-268 (Langer, 66.4 ov), 4-275 (Martyn, 67.2 ov),
     5-275 (Waugh, 67.4 ov), 6-276 (Gilchrist, 69.1 ov),
     7-302 (Bichel, 72.3 ov), 8-310 (Katich, 75.2 ov),
     9-317 (Gillespie, 76.1 ov), 10-323 (MacGill, 78.1 ov).

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Khan                        23      2     95      5 (12nb)
Nehra                       15      4     51      0 (2nb)
Agarkar                     25.1    5     90      3 (2w)
Harbhajan Singh             14      1     68      0
Ganguly                      1      0      8      0

India 1st innings                                               R   M   B  4 6
A Chopra              c Hayden           b Gillespie           36 181 135  2 0
V Sehwag              c Hayden           b Bracken             45  81  51  5 0
R Dravid              c Hayden           b Gillespie            1  14  11  0 0
SR Tendulkar          lbw                b Gillespie            0   3   3  0 0
*SC Ganguly           c Gillespie        b MacGill            144 291 196 18 0
VVS Laxman            c Katich           b MacGill             75 136 113 11 0
+PA Patel             c Bichel           b Gillespie           37 122 105  5 0
AB Agarkar            c Hayden           b Bichel              12  43  26  1 0
Harbhajan Singh       not out                                  19  64  39  2 0
Z Khan                                   b MacGill             27  52  46  3 1
A Nehra               lbw                b MacGill              0   6   2  0 0
Extras                (lb 6, w 1, nb 6)                        13
Total                 (all out, 120.1 overs)                  409

FoW: 1-61 (Sehwag, 19.2 ov), 2-62 (Dravid, 22.3 ov),
     3-62 (Tendulkar, 22.6 ov), 4-127 (Chopra, 42.4 ov),
     5-273 (Laxman, 76.4 ov), 6-329 (Ganguly, 94.2 ov),
     7-362 (Agarkar, 105.1 ov), 8-362 (Patel, 106.4 ov),
     9-403 (Khan, 118.5 ov), 10-409 (Nehra, 120.1 ov).

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Gillespie                   31     12     65      4 (2nb)
Bracken                     26      5     90      1 (1w)
Bichel                      28      6    130      1 (3nb)
MacGill                     26.1    4     86      4 (1nb)
Waugh                        7      3     16      0
Katich                       2      0     16      0

Australia 2nd innings                                           R   M   B  4 6
ML Hayden             c Sehwag           b Harbhajan Singh     99 128  98 10 2
JL Langer             c Patel            b Agarkar              0   9   6  0 0
RT Ponting            c Sehwag           b Nehra               50 111  75  5 0
DR Martyn             not out                                  66 118 100  3 2
*SR Waugh             not out                                  56 111 102  7 0
Extras                (b 4, nb 9)                              13
Total                 (3 wickets dec, 62 overs, 240 mins)     284

DNB: SM Katich, +AC Gilchrist, AJ Bichel, JN Gillespie,
     NW Bracken, SCG MacGill.

FoW: 1-6 (Langer, 1.6 ov), 2-146 (Ponting, 28.4 ov),
     3-156 (Hayden, 29.5 ov).

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Khan                         3      0     15      0 (1nb)
Agarkar                     12      3     45      1 (1nb)
Nehra                       19      1     89      1 (6nb)
Harbhajan Singh             21      1    101      1
Tendulkar                    2      0      9      0
Sehwag                       5      1     21      0 (1nb)

India 2nd innings (target: 199 runs)                            R   M   B  4 6
A Chopra              c Langer           b Bracken              4   7   7  1 0
V Sehwag              c Martyn           b Bracken              0   5   1  0 0
R Dravid              not out                                  43      47  6 0
VVS Laxman            not out                                  24      43  3 0
Extras                (nb 2)                                    2
Total                 (2 wickets, 16 overs)                    73

To Bat: SR Tendulkar, *SC Ganguly, AB Agarkar, +PA Patel,
        Harbhajan Singh, Z Khan, A Nehra.

FoW: 1-4 (Sehwag, 1.1 ov), 2-4 (Chopra, 1.2 ov).

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Gillespie                    5      1     17      0 (2nb)
Bracken                      4      1     12      2
MacGill                      4      0     32      0
Bichel                       3      0     12      0

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