Patience is virtue! 26th December - India meets Australia in Melbourne for a long awaited Boxing Day test match. Just to be firmly prepared for that match, Indians play one more warm up match against Cricket Australia's Chairman's XI. This match will again be played at Canberra.
The first match was a two dayer and this practice match would be a three day match. So an extra day of practice for the Indians. The first match purely belonged to the batsmen. Robinson scored an emphatic 140 plus and Cooper was even more impressive with an unbeaten 182 runs. CA Chairman's XI scored 398 and declared. Doubts were raised again on team India's performance in Australia. But Indian batsmen anchored batting pretty well and scored 320 in reply.
Indian fans were happy to see Sachin in form down under. Sachin scored 92 retired out. Even Laxman scored 57 retired out. Dravid' 45 and Rohit Sharma's 56 came handy. The only Indian bowler who was impressive was Umesh Yadav who was economical and took 3 wickets.
There is a buzz in the Indian camp about the Australian weakness towards swing bowling. After Zaheer Khan it was Rohit Sharma who believes recently the Australian batsmen have face problems facing swing bowling. Rohit Sharma added that India has a good bowling attack to pressurise Australian batting unit.
Indians have got into the groove with one warm up match and the 2nd practice match will give them more idea of the Australian conditions. Also the Indian fans are hoping that Sachin will get to his 100th ton at MCG in the 1st test match.
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