mal wrote:DAY1
HAYDEN....... C RICHARDS B HOLDING 8
LANGER........ C HAYNES B MARSHALL 17
PONTING... C GREENIDGE B AMBROSE 74
CHAPPELL................ LBW HOLDING 104
WAUGH.......................... B SOBERS 58
BORDER.......... C DUJON B MARSHALL 10
GILCHRIST.........C DUJON B MARSHALL 6
DAVIDSON ................ ...... NOT OUT 0
WARNE...............................NOT OUT 1
SUNDRIES......................................12
AU 7/290
WI opened up with MALcolm Marshall and Holding
At the start of play Holding was walking towards the boundary, a young boy was thinking the great bowler was about to give him his signature, but Whispering Death was marking out his run up
AU was 2/29 with both Hayden and Langer out cheaply
Ponting and Chappell than batted superbly against a fired up pace attack
Ponting twice hooked Joel Garner over the fine leg boundary early in his innings
Ponting lived dangerously early having edged a few deliveries wide of fielders, before dominating the attack
Chappell was pure elegance, preferring to avoid the short balls, and playing some glorious strokes to deliveries in his half
Chappell made a special century b4 being trapped by a quick yorker by Holding
His parterships with Ponting and Waugh were enough to get AU well on top on day 1 when 3/248
Waugh was peppered with short pitched deliveries, he batted courageously with a gutsy half century
The wickets of Border and GilCHRIST to the second new ball late in the day swung the game back to an even footing
MALcolm Marshall bowled superbly 3/62[22] some of his swinging deliveries were unplayable at times
This match is evenly poised
WI will be keen to finished off the AU innings on day 2, and then bat on a pitch suited to batting
Sobers would be the first player picked.
