Australia v India, Adelaide Oval

India 526/10 & 269/7

Australia 563/10

Match drawn

Australia v India 2007 · 4th Test Adelaide Oval 24–28 Jan 2008

How hard each side found the batting

Uneven — India had it far tougher than Australia.

India

0.93× -7%

Australia

1.18× +18%

harder to scoretypicaleasier

The lead

On equal conditions, India led by more than the scoreboard showed.

Who won it · by value

Runs, and what they were worth in these conditions

V Sehwag India

214 +309

Sachin Tendulkar India

166 +252

A Kumble India

96 +185

RT Ponting Australia

140 +153

MJ Clarke Australia

118 +135

Best bowling

Top match figures

MG Johnson4/126

B Lee3/101

IK Pathan3/112

I Sharma3/115

Top score

153

Sachin Tendulkar · India

Biggest stand

210

4th wkt · Australia

Worst collapse

3–36

3 wkts for 36 · Australia

Match facts

TossIndia, bat

ResultMatch drawn

Length5 days

India

526 /10 (152.5 ov)

Batter		R	B	4s	6s	SR
V Sehwag	c ML Hayden b B Lee	63	90	6	0	70.00
IK Pathan	c AC Gilchrist b MG Johnson	9	21	2	0	42.86
R Dravid	c RT Ponting b MG Johnson	18	55	0	0	32.73
Sachin Tendulkar	c GB Hogg b B Lee	153	205	13	3	74.63
SC Ganguly	lbw b GB Hogg	7	29	1	0	24.14
VVS Laxman	c AC Gilchrist b B Lee	51	102	5	0	50.00
MS Dhoni	c A Symonds b MG Johnson	16	64	1	0	25.00
A Kumble	c AC Gilchrist b MG Johnson	87	205	9	0	42.44
Harbhajan Singh	c AC Gilchrist b A Symonds	63	103	7	0	61.17
RP Singh	c MG Johnson b MJ Clarke	0	4	0	0	0.00
I Sharma*	not out	14	48	1	0	29.17

Extras 45 (b 8, lb 21, w 3, nb 13)

Total 526/10 (152.5 ov)

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
B Lee	36.0	4	101	3	2.81
MG Johnson	37.5	7	126	4	3.33
SR Clark	31.0	6	92	0	2.97
GB Hogg	31.0	2	119	1	3.84
MJ Clarke	10.0	0	39	1	3.90
A Symonds	7.0	0	20	1	2.86

Fall of wickets

1-34 (IK Pathan, 7.3)·2-82 (R Dravid, 23.3)·3-122 (V Sehwag, 32.5)·4-156 (SC Ganguly, 41.6)·5-282 (VVS Laxman, 73.3)·6-336 (MS Dhoni, 89.4)·7-359 (Sachin Tendulkar, 96.3)·8-466 (Harbhajan Singh, 131.3)·9-468 (RP Singh, 132.3)·10-526 (A Kumble, 152.5)

Australia

563 /10 (181.0 ov)

Batter		R	B	4s	6s	SR
PA Jaques	b A Kumble	60	159	3	0	37.74
ML Hayden	b I Sharma	103	200	10	1	51.50
RT Ponting	b V Sehwag	140	266	10	0	52.63
MEK Hussey	b IK Pathan	22	66	1	0	33.33
MJ Clarke	c VVS Laxman b I Sharma	118	243	8	0	48.56
A Symonds	b I Sharma	30	63	5	0	47.62
AC Gilchrist	c V Sehwag b IK Pathan	14	18	1	0	77.78
GB Hogg*	not out	16	42	1	0	38.10
B Lee	c MS Dhoni b IK Pathan	1	4	0	0	25.00
MG Johnson	c I Sharma b Harbhajan Singh	13	28	2	0	46.43
SR Clark	b V Sehwag	3	8	0	0	37.50

Extras 43 (b 10, lb 12, w 10, nb 11)

Total 563/10 (181.0 ov)

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
RP Singh	4.0	0	14	0	3.50
IK Pathan	36.0	2	112	3	3.11
I Sharma	40.0	6	115	3	2.88
Harbhajan Singh	48.0	5	128	1	2.67
A Kumble	30.0	4	109	1	3.63
V Sehwag	19.0	2	51	2	2.68
Sachin Tendulkar	1.0	0	6	0	6.00
SC Ganguly	3.0	1	6	0	2.00

Fall of wickets

1-159 (PA Jaques, 52.4)·2-186 (ML Hayden, 63.4)·3-241 (MEK Hussey, 83.4)·4-451 (RT Ponting, 148.6)·5-490 (MJ Clarke, 160.1)·6-506 (AC Gilchrist, 163.6)·7-527 (A Symonds, 170.3)·8-528 (B Lee, 171.2)·9-557 (MG Johnson, 177.6)·10-563 (SR Clark, 180.6)

India

269 /7 (90.1 ov)

Batter		R	B	4s	6s	SR
V Sehwag	c AC Gilchrist b A Symonds	151	236	13	2	63.98
IK Pathan	lbw b MG Johnson	0	6	0	0	0.00
R Dravid*	not out	11	64	2	0	17.19
Sachin Tendulkar	run out (MG Johnson)	13	36	1	0	36.11
SC Ganguly	c MEK Hussey b MG Johnson	18	38	1	0	47.37
VVS Laxman	c AC Gilchrist b B Lee	12	30	0	0	40.00
MS Dhoni	c ML Hayden b B Lee	20	44	3	0	45.45
A Kumble*	not out	9	52	0	0	17.31
Harbhajan Singh	c RT Ponting b GB Hogg	7	20	0	0	35.00
I Sharma*	not out	2	20	0	0	10.00

Extras 26 (b 9, lb 9, w 3, nb 5)

Total 269/7 (90.1 ov)

Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ
B Lee	27.0	3	74	2	2.74
MG Johnson	16.0	1	33	2	2.06
A Symonds	22.1	4	52	1	2.35
SR Clark	12.0	3	37	0	3.08
GB Hogg	12.0	3	53	1	4.42
MJ Clarke	1.0	0	2	0	2.00

Fall of wickets

1-2 (IK Pathan, 1.5)·2-128 (Sachin Tendulkar, 37.6)·3-162 (SC Ganguly, 49.2)·4-186 (VVS Laxman, 56.6)·5-237 (MS Dhoni, 70.6)·6-253 (V Sehwag, 77.4)·7-264 (Harbhajan Singh, 84.2)