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Test no. 1413

Border-Gavaskar Trophy - 3rd Test
India v Australia

1997/98 season

Played at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, on 25,26,27,28 March 1998 (5-day match)

Result Australia won by 8 wickets


India 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	VVS Laxman	c Taylor b Kasprowicz	6	44	24	1	0	25.00
	NS Sidhu	b Warne	74	162	135	8	3	54.81
	R Dravid	b Warne	23	131	94	4	0	24.46
	SR Tendulkar	b Dale	177	298	207	29	3	85.50
	M Azharuddin	c Healy b Lehmann	40	144	114	2	0	35.08
	SC Ganguly	lbw b Dale	17	61	39	3	0	43.58
	NR Mongia	c Ponting b Warne	18	48	34	2	0	52.94
	A Kumble	c Waugh b Robertson	39	86	59	4	1	66.10
	Harvinder Singh	lbw b Dale	0	1	1	0	0	0.00
	SLV Raju	c Lehmann b Robertson	5	26	24	1	0	20.83
	Harbhajan Singh	not out	4	21	19	0	0	21.05
	Extras	(b 6, lb 6, nb 9)	21

	Total	(all out; 123.2 overs; 510 mins)	424	(3.43 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-24 (Laxman, 8.1 ov), 2-109 (Sidhu, 39.6 ov), 3-110 (Dravid, 41.4 ov), 4-249 (Azharuddin, 76.5 ov), 5-294 (Ganguly, 91.3 ov), 6-353 (Mongia, 101.5 ov), 7-390 (Tendulkar, 110.2 ov), 8-390 (Harvinder Singh, 110.3 ov), 9-415 (Raju, 117.5 ov), 10-424 (Kumble, 123.2 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
MS Kasprowicz	29	4	76	1	2.62	(5nb)
AC Dale	23	6	71	3	3.08	(2nb)
SK Warne	35	9	106	3	3.02	(2nb)
GS Blewett	14	3	50	0	3.57	(1nb)
GR Robertson	11.2	1	58	2	5.11
ME Waugh	4	0	24	0	6.00
DS Lehmann	7	1	27	1	3.85


Australia 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	MJ Slater	c Mongia b Harvinder Singh	91	140	117	14	2	77.77
	MA Taylor	c Mongia b Kumble	14	63	43	1	0	32.55
	GS Blewett	b Harbhajan Singh	4	21	25	0	0	16.00
	ME Waugh	not out	153	375	267	13	4	57.30
	DS Lehmann	c Laxman b Harbhajan Singh	52	99	67	8	0	77.61
	RT Ponting	c Tendulkar b Kumble	16	27	30	0	0	53.33
	IA Healy	c Mongia b Kumble	4	10	5	1	0	80.00
	SK Warne	c Harbhajan Singh b Raju	33	63	52	3	1	63.46
	GR Robertson	c Azharuddin b Kumble	4	42	33	0	0	12.12
	MS Kasprowicz	lbw b Kumble	4	26	26	0	0	15.38
	AC Dale	c Laxman b Kumble	5	8	9	0	0	55.55
	Extras	(b 12, lb 5, nb 3)	20

	Total	(all out; 111.3 overs; 423 mins)	400	(3.58 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-68 (Taylor, 15.6 ov), 2-77 (Blewett, 22.4 ov), 3-143 (Slater, 36.6 ov), 4-249 (Lehmann, 62.2 ov), 5-274 (Ponting, 69.5 ov), 6-286 (Healy, 71.6 ov), 7-350 (Warne, 89.4 ov), 8-378 (Robertson, 101.6 ov), 9-394 (Kasprowicz, 109.2 ov), 10-400 (Dale, 111.3 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
Harvinder Singh	7	0	44	1	6.28	(2nb)
SC Ganguly	2	0	10	0	5.00	(2nb)
A Kumble	41.3	8	98	6	2.36
SLV Raju	37	7	118	1	3.18
Harbhajan Singh	23	1	112	2	4.86	(1nb)
VVS Laxman	1	0	1	0	1.00


India 2nd innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	VVS Laxman	c Ponting b Warne	15	59	41	2	0	36.58
	NS Sidhu	c Lehmann b Warne	44	90	62	6	1	70.96
	R Dravid	c Healy b Robertson	6	63	31	0	0	19.35
	SR Tendulkar	c & b Kasprowicz	31	75	64	4	0	48.43
	M Azharuddin	b Kasprowicz	18	69	53	2	0	33.96
	SC Ganguly	b Robertson	16	72	55	0	0	29.09
	NR Mongia	not out	12	77	37	0	0	32.43
	A Kumble	lbw b Robertson	9	15	14	2	0	64.28
	Harvinder Singh	lbw b Kasprowicz	0	7	8	0	0	0.00
	SLV Raju	b Kasprowicz	2	6	5	0	0	40.00
	Harbhajan Singh	lbw b Kasprowicz	0	3	2	0	0	0.00
	Extras	(b 5, lb 5, nb 6)	16

	Total	(all out; 61 overs; 273 mins)	169	(2.77 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-50 (Laxman, 12.6 ov), 2-61 (Sidhu, 20.2 ov), 3-92 (Dravid, 27.4 ov), 4-111 (Tendulkar, 37.5 ov), 5-127 (Azharuddin, 43.5 ov), 6-144 (Ganguly, 53.4 ov), 7-158 (Kumble, 57.3 ov), 8-159 (Harvinder Singh, 58.6 ov), 9-163 (Raju, 60.1 ov), 10-169 (Harbhajan Singh, 60.6 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
MS Kasprowicz	18	5	28	5	1.55	(1nb)
AC Dale	5	1	21	0	4.20
SK Warne	25	6	80	2	3.20	(5nb)
GR Robertson	12	2	28	3	2.33
GS Blewett	1	0	2	0	2.00


Australia 2nd innings (target: 194 runs)			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	MA Taylor	not out	102	210	193	17	0	52.84
	MJ Slater	c Azharuddin b Tendulkar	42	108	73	3	1	57.53
	GS Blewett	lbw b Kumble	5	27	23	0	0	21.73
	ME Waugh	not out	33	74	59	4	0	55.93
	Extras	(b 8, lb 5)	13

	Total	(2 wickets; 58 overs; 210 mins)	195	(3.36 runs per over)

Did not bat RT Ponting, DS Lehmann,

IA Healy, SK Warne, GR Robertson, MS Kasprowicz, AC Dale

Fall of wickets1-91 (Slater, 28.6 ov), 2-114 (Blewett, 37.6 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
Harvinder Singh	3	0	17	0	5.66
A Kumble	22.4	5	63	1	2.77
SLV Raju	15	4	37	0	2.46
Harbhajan Singh	6	1	24	0	4.00
SR Tendulkar	11.2	1	41	1	3.61

Toss India, who chose to bat first
Series India won the 3-match series 2-1

Test debuts AC Dale and DS Lehmann (Australia); Harbhajan Singh (India)
Player of the match MS Kasprowicz (Australia)
Player of the series SR Tendulkar (India)

Umpires VK Ramaswamy and DR Shepherd (England)
TV umpire BK Sadashiva
Match referee PL van der Merwe (South Africa)

Close of play
25 Mar day 1 - India 1st innings 290/4 (SR Tendulkar 117*, SC Ganguly 17*, 90 ov)
26 Mar day 2 - Australia 1st innings 209/3 (ME Waugh 58*, DS Lehmann 35*, 54 ov)
27 Mar day 3 - India 2nd innings 99/3 (SR Tendulkar 27*, M Azharuddin 4*, 34 ov)
28 Mar day 4 - Australia 2nd innings 195/2 (58 ov) - end of match

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