| Australia 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| JL Langer | lbw b Agarkar | 121 | 325 | 194 | 17 | 0 | 62.37 | |
| ML Hayden | c Laxman b Khan | 37 | 81 | 52 | 6 | 0 | 71.15 | |
| RT Ponting | c †Patel b Khan | 54 | 125 | 88 | 7 | 1 | 61.36 | |
| DR Martyn | run out (Harbhajan Singh/†Patel/Ganguly) | 42 | 122 | 79 | 5 | 0 | 53.16 | |
| SR Waugh* | hit wicket b Khan | 0 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| SM Katich | c †Patel b Khan | 16 | 41 | 25 | 4 | 0 | 64.00 | |
| AC Gilchrist† | c Laxman b Khan | 0 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| AJ Bichel | c Laxman b Agarkar | 11 | 16 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 110.00 | |
| JN Gillespie | run out (Harbhajan Singh/Agarkar) | 8 | 19 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 72.72 | |
| NW Bracken | not out | 6 | 18 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 46.15 | |
| SCG MacGill | c Chopra b Agarkar | 1 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 7, w 2, nb 14) | 27 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 78.1 overs; 391 mins) | 323 | (4.13 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| Z Khan | 23 | 2 | 95 | 5 | 4.13 | (12nb) | ||
| A Nehra | 15 | 4 | 51 | 0 | 3.40 | (2nb) | ||
| AB Agarkar | 25.1 | 5 | 90 | 3 | 3.57 | (2w) | ||
| Harbhajan Singh | 14 | 1 | 68 | 0 | 4.85 | |||
| SC Ganguly | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8.00 |
| India 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| A Chopra | c Hayden b Gillespie | 36 | 181 | 135 | 2 | 0 | 26.66 | |
| V Sehwag | c Hayden b Bracken | 45 | 81 | 51 | 5 | 0 | 88.23 | |
| R Dravid | c Hayden b Gillespie | 1 | 14 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 9.09 | |
| SR Tendulkar | lbw b Gillespie | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| SC Ganguly* | c Gillespie b MacGill | 144 | 291 | 196 | 18 | 0 | 73.46 | |
| VVS Laxman | c Katich b MacGill | 75 | 136 | 113 | 11 | 0 | 66.37 | |
| PA Patel† | c Bichel b Gillespie | 37 | 122 | 105 | 5 | 0 | 35.23 | |
| AB Agarkar | c Hayden b Bichel | 12 | 43 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 46.15 | |
| Harbhajan Singh | not out | 19 | 64 | 39 | 2 | 0 | 48.71 | |
| Z Khan | b MacGill | 27 | 52 | 46 | 3 | 1 | 58.69 | |
| A Nehra | lbw b MacGill | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 6, w 1, nb 6) | 13 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 120.1 overs; 501 mins) | 409 | (3.40 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| JN Gillespie | 31 | 12 | 65 | 4 | 2.09 | (2nb) | ||
| NW Bracken | 26 | 5 | 90 | 1 | 3.46 | (1w) | ||
| AJ Bichel | 28 | 6 | 130 | 1 | 4.64 | (3nb) | ||
| SCG MacGill | 26.1 | 4 | 86 | 4 | 3.28 | (1nb) | ||
| SR Waugh | 7 | 3 | 16 | 0 | 2.28 | |||
| SM Katich | 2 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 8.00 |
| Australia 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| ML Hayden | c Sehwag b Harbhajan Singh | 99 | 128 | 98 | 10 | 2 | 101.02 | |
| JL Langer | c †Patel b Agarkar | 0 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| RT Ponting | c Sehwag b Nehra | 50 | 111 | 75 | 5 | 0 | 66.66 | |
| DR Martyn | not out | 66 | 118 | 100 | 3 | 2 | 66.00 | |
| SR Waugh* | not out | 56 | 111 | 102 | 7 | 0 | 54.90 | |
| Extras | (b 4, nb 9) | 13 | ||||||
| Total | (3 wickets dec; 62 overs; 240 mins) | 284 | (4.58 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat SM Katich, AC Gilchrist†, AJ Bichel, JN Gillespie, NW Bracken, SCG MacGill |
| Fall of wickets1-6 (Langer, 1.6 ov), 2-146 (Ponting, 28.4 ov), 3-156 (Hayden, 29.5 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| Z Khan | 3 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 5.00 | (1nb) | ||
| AB Agarkar | 12 | 3 | 45 | 1 | 3.75 | (1nb) | ||
| A Nehra | 19 | 1 | 89 | 1 | 4.68 | (6nb) | ||
| Harbhajan Singh | 21 | 1 | 101 | 1 | 4.80 | |||
| SR Tendulkar | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 4.50 | |||
| V Sehwag | 5 | 1 | 21 | 0 | 4.20 | (1nb) |
| India 2nd innings (target: 199 runs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| A Chopra | c Langer b Bracken | 4 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 57.14 | |
| V Sehwag | c Martyn b Bracken | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| R Dravid | not out | 43 | 66 | 47 | 6 | 0 | 91.48 | |
| VVS Laxman | not out | 24 | 64 | 43 | 3 | 0 | 55.81 | |
| Extras | (nb 2) | 2 | ||||||
| Total | (2 wickets; 16 overs; 72 mins) | 73 | (4.56 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat SR Tendulkar, SC Ganguly*, AB Agarkar, PA Patel†, Harbhajan Singh, Z Khan, A Nehra |
| Fall of wickets1-4 (Sehwag, 1.1 ov), 2-4 (Chopra, 1.2 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| JN Gillespie | 5 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 3.40 | (2nb) | ||
| NW Bracken | 4 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 3.00 | |||
| SCG MacGill | 4 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 8.00 | |||
| AJ Bichel | 3 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 4.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss India, who chose to field Series 4-match series level 0-0 |
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Test debut
NW Bracken
(Australia) Player of the match SC Ganguly (India) |
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Umpires
SA Bucknor (West Indies) and RE Koertzen (South Africa) TV umpire PD Parker Match referee MJ Procter (South Africa) |
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Close of play 4 Dec day 1 - Australia 1st innings 262/2 (JL Langer 115*, DR Martyn 36*, 62 ov) 5 Dec day 2 - Australia 1st innings 323/9 (NW Bracken 6*, SCG MacGill 1*, 78 ov) 6 Dec day 3 - India 1st innings 11/0 (A Chopra 5*, V Sehwag 5*, 6.1 ov) 7 Dec day 4 - India 1st innings 362/6 (PA Patel 37*, AB Agarkar 12*, 105 ov) 8 Dec day 5 - India 2nd innings 73/2 (16 ov) - end of match |
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Dec 6, 2004 Sourav Ganguly celebrates his hundred © Getty Images |
Dec 10, 2003 Jason Gillespie traps Sachin Tendulkar lbw © Getty Images |
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