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Test no. 1481

Border-Gavaskar Trophy - 3rd Test
Australia v India

1999/00 season

Played at Sydney Cricket Ground on 2,3,4 January 2000 (5-day match)

Result Australia won by an innings and 141 runs


India 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	MSK Prasad	c ME Waugh b McGrath	5	43	37	1	0	13.51
	VVS Laxman	c Slater b Lee	7	93	60	0	0	11.66
	R Dravid	c Ponting b McGrath	29	102	74	1	0	39.18
	SR Tendulkar	lbw b McGrath	45	82	53	8	0	84.90
	SC Ganguly	c SR Waugh b Blewett	1	5	5	0	0	20.00
	HH Kanitkar	c Gilchrist b Lee	10	83	67	1	0	14.92
	R Vijay Bharadwaj	c Gilchrist b Lee	6	67	35	1	0	17.14
	A Kumble	c Langer b McGrath	26	59	56	4	0	46.42
	AB Agarkar	c ME Waugh b Lee	0	1	1	0	0	0.00
	J Srinath	c Ponting b McGrath	3	22	16	0	0	18.75
	BKV Prasad	not out	1	25	7	0	0	14.28
	Extras	(lb 12, w 1, nb 4)	17

	Total	(all out; 67.5 overs; 295 mins)	150	(2.21 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-10 (MSK Prasad, 10.5 ov), 2-27 (Laxman, 22.2 ov), 3-68 (Dravid, 34.1 ov), 4-69 (Ganguly, 35.1 ov), 5-95 (Tendulkar, 40.6 ov), 6-118 (Kanitkar, 54.1 ov), 7-119 (Vijay Bharadwaj, 56.1 ov), 8-119 (Agarkar, 56.2 ov), 9-126 (Srinath, 61.5 ov), 10-150 (Kumble, 67.5 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
GD McGrath	18.5	7	48	5	2.54	(1nb)
DW Fleming	13	7	24	0	1.84	(2nb, 1w)
B Lee	21	9	39	4	1.85	(1nb)
SK Warne	12	4	22	0	1.83
GS Blewett	3	2	5	1	1.66


Australia 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	GS Blewett	b BKV Prasad	19	90	54	0	0	35.18
	MJ Slater	c MSK Prasad b Srinath	1	18	11	0	0	9.09
	JL Langer	c BKV Prasad b Tendulkar	223	523	355	30	0	62.81
	ME Waugh	b Ganguly	32	102	70	5	1	45.71
	SR Waugh	lbw b Srinath	57	151	124	9	0	45.96
	RT Ponting	not out	141	262	183	17	1	77.04
	AC Gilchrist	not out	45	65	56	5	0	80.35
	Extras	(b 2, lb 21, nb 11)	34

	Total	(5 wickets dec; 140.2 overs; 608 mins)	552	(3.93 runs per over)

Did not bat SK Warne, DW Fleming, B Lee, GD McGrath

Fall of wickets1-9 (Slater, 4.3 ov), 2-49 (Blewett, 19.5 ov), 3-146 (ME Waugh, 42.1 ov), 4-267 (SR Waugh, 80.1 ov), 5-457 (Langer, 122.5 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
J Srinath	28	4	105	2	3.75	(7nb)
AB Agarkar	19	3	95	0	5.00
BKV Prasad	28	10	86	1	3.07
A Kumble	33.2	6	126	0	3.78	(2nb)
SC Ganguly	12	1	46	1	3.83	(1nb)
R Vijay Bharadwaj	12	1	35	0	2.91	(1nb)
SR Tendulkar	7	0	34	1	4.85
HH Kanitkar	1	0	2	0	2.00


India 2nd innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	VVS Laxman	c Gilchrist b Lee	167	255	198	27	0	84.34
	MSK Prasad	c ME Waugh b McGrath	3	19	7	0	0	42.85
	R Dravid	c Warne b McGrath	0	9	7	0	0	0.00
	SR Tendulkar	c Langer b Fleming	4	6	4	1	0	100.00
	SC Ganguly	c ME Waugh b McGrath	25	71	51	3	0	49.01
	HH Kanitkar	c Slater b Lee	8	32	19	1	0	42.10
	A Kumble	c Ponting b McGrath	15	75	45	3	0	33.33
	AB Agarkar	c Gilchrist b McGrath	0	3	2	0	0	0.00
	J Srinath	not out	15	38	27	1	0	55.55
	BKV Prasad	run out (Gilchrist)	3	4	2	0	0	150.00
	R Vijay Bharadwaj	absent hurt	-
	Extras	(b 4, lb 2, w 1, nb 14)	21

	Total	(all out; 58 overs; 260 mins)	261	(4.50 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-22 (MSK Prasad, 4.3 ov), 2-26 (Dravid, 6.4 ov), 3-33 (Tendulkar, 7.4 ov), 4-101 (Ganguly, 24.5 ov), 5-145 (Kanitkar, 30.6 ov), 6-234 (Kumble, 50.1 ov), 7-234 (Agarkar, 50.3 ov), 8-258 (Laxman, 57.1 ov), 9-261 (BKV Prasad, 57.6 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
GD McGrath	17	1	55	5	3.23	(6nb)
DW Fleming	13	2	47	1	3.61	(1nb, 1w)
B Lee	11	2	67	2	6.09	(5nb)
GS Blewett	2	0	16	0	8.00
SK Warne	13	1	60	0	4.61	(2nb)
RT Ponting	1	0	8	0	8.00
MJ Slater	1	0	2	0	2.00

Toss India, who chose to bat first
Series Australia won the 3-match series 3-0

Player of the match GD McGrath (Australia)
Player of the series SR Tendulkar (India)

Umpires DB Hair and ID Robinson (Zimbabwe)
TV umpire SJA Taufel
Match referee RS Madugalle (Sri Lanka)

Close of play
2 Jan day 1 - India 1st innings 121/8 (A Kumble 1*, J Srinath 2*, 60 ov)
3 Jan day 2 - Australia 1st innings 331/4 (JL Langer 167*, RT Ponting 34*, 95 ov)
4 Jan day 3 - India 2nd innings 261 (58 ov) - end of match

Match notes

12th Men: MS Kasprowicz (Aus) and DJ Gandhi (Ind)

Day 1
Rain stopped play from 12:32pm to 3:08pm. Lunch was taken from 12:50pm to 1:30pm and tea taken at 4:10pm. Stumps was rescheduled to 7:00pm with a minimum of 76 overs to be bowled in the day.
Lunch: India 27/1 (Laxman 7*, Dravid 9*, 21.5 overs)
India 50 off 114 mins, 26.4 overs
Tea: India 69/4 (Tendulkar 19*, 35.1 overs)
India 100 off 197 mins, 45.1 overs
Bad light stopped play at 6:19pm with the day being abandoned at 6:36pm
Attendance: 42,193

Day 2
India 150 off 294 mins, 67.3 overs
Australia 50 off 95 mins, 20.3 overs
Lunch: Australia 57/2 (Langer 29*, ME Waugh 1*, 24 overs)
JL Langer 50 in 122 mins, 96 balls, 7x4 0x6
Langer/ME Waugh partnership 50 off 55 mins, 77 balls
Australia 100 in 153 mins, 32.6 overs
Australia 150 off 196 mins, 42.3 overs
Tea: Australia 177/3 (Langer 98*, SR Waugh 14*, 51 overs)
JL Langer 100 off 241 mins, 172 balls, 14x4 0x6
Langer/SR Waugh partnership 50 off 66 mins, 104 balls
Australia 200 off 261 mins, 59.3 overs
Langer/SR Waugh partnership 100 off 185 balls, 124 mins
SR Waugh 50 off 113 balls, 137 mins, 8x4 0x6
JL Langer 150 off 335 mins, 235 balls, 22x4 0x6
Australia 300 off 374 mins, 86.1 overs
Attendance: 38,705

Day 3
RT Ponting 50 in 97 mins, 76 balls, 8x4 1x6
Australia 400 off 475 mins, 108.2 overs
Langer/Ponting partnership 150 off 151 mins, 193 balls
RT Ponting 100 off 141 balls, 204 mins, 12x4 1x6
Lunch: Australia 477/5 (Ponting 102*, Gilchrist 10*, 128 overs)
Australia 500 in 573 mins, 131.3 overs
Ponting/Gilchrist partnership 50 off 38 mins, 67 balls
India 50 in 53 mins, 11.1 overs
Tea: India 69/3 (Laxman 46*, Ganguly 10*, 14 overs)
VVS Laxman 50 in 71 mins, 55 balls, 8x4 0x6
India 100 in 108 mins, 24.3 overs
India 150 in 146 mins, 31.6 overs
VVS Laxman 100 in 149 mins, 114 balls, 16x4 1x5 0x6
Laxman/Kumble partnership 50 off 37 mins, 57 balls
India 200 in 181 mins, 40.4 overs
VVS Laxman 150 in 207 mins, 172 balls, 25x4 1x5 0x6
India 250 in 249 mins, 55.4 overs