da dobrowin： Queensland will need to score just 81 runs on Monday morning to give India afirst-up loss to start their Australian tour
Rick Eyre28-Nov-1999Queensland will need to score just 81 runs on Monday morning to give India afirst-up loss to start their Australian tour. Trailing by 124 runs on thefirst innings, India were dismissed for 204 in their second innings onstumps at day three Sunday at The Gabba, Brisbane.Queensland, resuming at their overnight score of 7/363, lasted twelve overson Sunday morning before being dismissed for 401. T Kumaran took two of thethree wickets to fall this morning to finish with 5/67. Though this is hisfirst first-class appearance in Australia, it is not his first time in thiscountry, having recently done a stint with the Australian Cricket Academywhich included accompanying the Academy on their New Zealand tour.Devang Gandhi (13) registered his second failure of the match when hesnicked Andy Bichel to the waiting gloves of Wade Seccombe. Ramesh fell foran identical score when caught by Stuart Law to become Scott Muller’s firstwicket of the innings.VVS Laxman picked up from where he left off in his first innings 113,playing the senior role in an 85-run partnership with Rahul Dravid. Laxmanand Dravid shared the spoils in plundering Bichel for fifteen runs in oneover, and Laxman’s 50 came up in 74 deliveries.When on 73 Laxman was caught behind trying to drive left-arm spinner MatthewAnderson. He hit twelve boundaries in his innings, which ended at the teabreak with India 3/125, one run in credit.Dravid had played a patient knock, but lashed out on 36 with a six offAnderson to long on. Next ball he was not so successful, Muller taking thecatch. Vijay Bharadwaj failed to score before giving Muller another scalp,caught behind by Seccombe.Soon after, Muller had the prize scalp of Sachin Tendulkar (27 in 51 balls,five fours). The recently-discarded Australian speedster had taken histhird wicket of the innings to match his three on Friday, a fact hereinforced as he motioned to the stump microphone and apparently uttered the words,”six wickets for the match, Warnie”.With India holding a slender lead, MSK Prasad (16) and Anil Kumble (10)looked likely to play out time on the third day, until a late collapse sawthe final four wickets fall for seven runs. Matthew Anderson finished offthe day by removing Venkatesh Prasad and Debashish Mohanty in the space ofthree deliveries.