Team News :
India won the toss and chose to bat at feroz shah kotla. India made one change with Mishra coming in for injured Bhajji. Australia too brought in Stuart Clark in place of Peter Siddle.
Day One :
Sehwag and Gambhir opened the innings for India. Lee gave a breakthrough in his early spell by taking Sehwag wicket for just 1 run. And then Mitchell Johnson taking Dravid wicket off to a loose shot. India were tottering at 27-2 at one stage. But Sachin and Gambhir steadied innings without further loss of wicket in the first session. Sachin played beautifully with his formidable strokes but fell cheaply before tea for well played 68 runs.
Gambhir though looked determined to play long innings, wasn't able to score well in his 1st session but after lunch he looked settled for a big innings and played his strokes freely all over the ground. With Laxman, He played aggressive innings after tea. And the scorecard tickled fastly. Gambhir has 2 good partnership. One with Sachin and another with Laxman. Gambhir is now playing at 149*, Laxman at 54* at the end of play for the loss of three wickets.
SCORECARD at the end of Day 1:
India 296/3, Gambhir 149*, Laxman 54*.
Lee 1 wicket, Johnson 2 wicket.
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