Victory at Mohali: India leads 4 Test series 1-0

India defeated Australia by 320 runs in the second cricket Test match to take a 1-0 lead in the four-match series, in Mohali on Tuesday. As pace man Ishant Sharma and spinner Harbhajan Singh flustered the Australian top order on the day-4, it was just a matter of time for Indian bowlers to end the show the earliest.

Early in the morning it was Zaheer Khan who claimed three wickets in just four deliveries sending a shiver in the Aussies camp. Brad Haddin, Cameron White and Bret Lee got out easily wiping out any chance of Australia to defend such a huge total of 516.

The last two wickets went to the kitty of debutant spinner Amit Mishra who had set the tune for India’s victory by rolling a five-wicket haul in the first innings of the match. The whole Australian innings bundled out for just 195 in a match which is the seventh largest defeat by runs.

Brief Scores:

India: 469 1st innings (Sourav Ganguly 102, M S Dhoni 92, Sachin Tendulkar 88, Gautam Gambhir 67; M. Johnson 3-85, Siddle 3-114) and 314/3 2nd innings declared (Gambhir 104, V. Sehwag 90, Dhoni 68)

Australia: 268 1st innings (Shane Watson 78, Michael Hussey 54; Amit Mishra 5-71) and 195 (Michael Clarke 69, Brad Haddin 37, Mitchell Johnson 26; Harbhajan Singh 3-36, Khan 3-71, Amit Mishra 2-35, Ishant Sharma 2-42).