Toss: Australia, bat
Australia 1st innings 280 all out
Cricket Web XI 1st innings 474 all out
Code:
Australia 2nd innings Runs 4 6
JL Langer c Mørk b Hoy 6 (29) 0 0
ML Hayden c Goff b Pickup 32 (58) 4 0
RT Ponting c Camps b Thomas 20 (45) 2 0
DR Martyn c Kennett b Thomas 2 (12) 0 0
MEK Hussey c Hoy b Kennett 22 (43) 2 1
A Symonds c Kennett b Camps 41 (97) 3 0
AC Gilchrist b Pickup 93 (94) 14 0
SK Warne c Mamesh b Pickup 6 (18) 0 0
B Lee b Hoy 5 (12) 1 0
JN Gillespie not out 8 (29) 1 0
SR Clark b Pickup 4 (11) 1 0
Extras 8
Total (74 overs) 248
FoW: 1/24 (Langer), 2/57 (Hayden), 3/61 (Ponting), 4/70 (Martyn), 5/94 (Hussey), 6/193 (Symonds), 7/211 (Warne), 8/219 (Lee), 9/235 (Gilchrist), 10/248 (Clark)
NS Hoy 23-4-50-2
DM Kennett 13-1-47-1
GM Thomas 12-0-46-2
NS Pickup 22-3-91-4
LA Camps 4-1-10-1
Australia lead by 54 runs.
A thrilling game of cricket once more. This has truly been a memorable series, and the Cricket Web XI are looking to end it on an historic note with their first Test match win against Australia. For such a young cricketing nation, the achievement is almost beyond belief, but with just 6 more wickets to get, it is well within touching distance.
Stay tuned.
36.3 Kennett to Hussey: there we go! A WICKET! Hussey couldn't keep his cut shot down and Hoy takes a really good catch.
Code:
MEK Hussey c Hoy b Kennett 22 (43)
36.5 Kennett to Gilchrist: into stride with a lofted boundary. Counterattack on the cards...
37.1 Hoy to Symonds: FLASHING and DROPPED! Butler puts it down at second slip. Relatively simple chance...
40.4 Kennett to Gilchrist: he pounds it past the extra-cover fielder... FOUR!
40.5 Kennett to Gilchrist: and again! Same ball, same shot, same measure of runs.
41.5 Hoy to Gilchrist: SHORT... PULLED! FOUR!
42.6 Kennett to Symonds: he leans into that one and gets a boundary of his own. Australia on the go.
44.5 Thomas to Gilchrist: CRACKING cut stroke! FOUR more to Gilchrist!
46.6 Thomas to Gilchrist: that races away like a bullet! FOUR!
48.2 Thomas to Gilchrist: down the track to the pacer and BANG! Back overhead for FOUR!
48.4 Thomas to Gilchrist: now the deft touch! Late cut that races past second slip to the vacant third man area. FOUR.
50.1 Thomas to Gilchrist: SHORT ball. HOOK SHOT. FOUR!
51.1 Pickup to Symonds: CRASHED through the covers. FOUR!
52.2 Camps to Symonds: picked it up and deposited just short of the long-on rope. FOUR!
53.1 Pickup to Symonds: swept for a single.
53.2 Pickup to Gilchrist: punched through the covers and into the gap...one...two... FIFTY!
AC Gilchrist 50 (41 balls), 9 fours, 0 sixes
53.3 Pickup to Gilchrist: down the track and BANG! Over midwicket and into the gap on the fence - FOUR!
53.4 Pickup to Gilchrist: swept fine and they get two.
53.5 Pickup to Gilchrist: LOFTED dead straight! Just short of SIX - FOUR!
53.6 Pickup to Gilchrist: he breaks out the sweep again! This is just pulled back by Hoy - 3 runs.
54.4 Camps to Symonds: the leading edge has gone straight up... Kennett runs in from the long-on fence... CAUGHT! Good judgement there and very safely held. Big wicket, as the Australians were starting to take charge a bit.
Code:
A Symonds c Kennett b Camps 41 (97)
59.5 Pickup to Wane: AGAIN! Pickup gets him for the second time in the game. Safe catch at slip by Mamesh. He's clutching that to chest for dear life. The Webheads sense the moment once more...
Code:
SK Warne c Mamesh b Pickup 6 (18)
And they head off for lunch before Lee can get to the middle.
60.2 Hoy to Lee: DROPPED! Spilled by Mamesh at first slip.
61.5 Pickup to Lee: HOWZAT??! Big appeal, as always with Pickup. Turned down by Bucknor.
61.6 Pickup to Lee: SHOT! Overpitched and Lee gets some confidence with that shot surely.
62.3 Hoy to Lee: PLAYED ON! Gilchrist gave Lee the strike in confidence, and he's lost another partner.
63.3 Pickup to Gilchrist: too short and he's found the gap - FOUR.
64.6 Hoy to Gilchrist: driven dead straight and it beats the stumps - FOUR!
Pickup around the wicket now...
69.2 Pickup to Gilchrist: he's BOWLED! Played right around it, and surely that's the decisive blow there. Pickup certainly thinks so. He's taking a victory lap!
Code:
AC Gilchrist b Pickup 93 (94)
69.6 Pickup to Clark: picked up off legstump and deposited for FOUR!
71.5 Pickup to Gillespie: flashed away... FOUR!
72.6 Hoy to Clark: played off the hip... DROPPED! Messy spill there.
73.6 Pickup to Clark: Swing. Miss. Hit. Pickup rattles Clark's off' and middle stumps. The innings is over and that leaves the Cricket Web XI with 55 runs to win this 3rd and final Test match, and the draw the series at 1-1.