India registered their thumping victory over arch rivals Australia by 320 runs to conquered Mohali!!
This test match was one of those magical ones which went all in favor of India. Except the first session on day 1, when India was struggling for 174 for 5, the Sachin & Sourav, the good and bad boy of Indian cricket rose to the occasion to steer India out of the first session debacle.
In this effort, Sachin made history by breaking Brain Lara's world record of 11953, and also became the 1st man in the history of cricket to cross 12000 test runs. Dada crossed his 7000 run mark the 4th Indian, in the history of Indian cricket to do so. He went on to hit his 16th century and his critics were silenced with the determination he played.
Dhoni, the stand-in captain, who can rechristened himself as Mahendra (victory) Singh Dhoni, rose to the occasion and slammed the ball across the park to put up a good score for the mighty Aussies. The debutant Amit Mishra, proved the selector and announced his arrival in the world of googly with a 5 wicket hall to bowl out Aussies for a mere 268 runs.
India, registered its lead with the Daredevil duo, Sehwag & Gambhir, putting up a cracking run rate ont he board and making the Aussies run around the park. Gambhir, scored his century and with Sehwag departing, Dhoni shouldered the responsibility to keep up the pace and promoted himself to number 3 to thrash the otherwise ordinary bowling of Aussies.
Declared the innings with 500 + runs to chase for victory, Aussies got stuck, with Bhajji's spining his webs with googlies. Ishant took the cake on 4th day with a beauty to take away his bunny Punter for a mere 2 runs of 11 balls. Aussies were nailed to defeat in the 4th day it self with 140 for 5 on the board. Today, it was Zaheer's magical spell, which removed the tail and Mishra taking the bottom 2 to bring up his wicket tally to 7 for the test match.
The game went to India, and coincidentally Dhoni, took away the kudos and man of the match for his formidable batting in both the innings and excellent captaincy through out the test. With 2 test as captain and victory in both, against the 2 best teams in the world, speaks a lot about this man and his Midas touch. Dhoni with a T20 world cup, Beating Ausies Down under and now with his test captaining record, its just a matter of time & formality when he shall hold the reins as countries cricket captain in all form of the game, as we shall wait to see Jumbo pulls down the curtain to his fantabulous career as a cricketer!!!
Kudos to the Indian Team & Are we close to witness the end to Aussie dominance in world cricket???
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