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4.6 | Ashwin to Symonds, no run, varying his pace here, slow through the air and plenty of flight, turns in to rap Symonds on the pads as he tries to work it into the leg side, would have been sliding down | ||||||||||||||
Two in two, the openers have been sent back and Deccan, after that dominating start, have to rebuild. Symonds to face | |||||||||||||||
4.5 | Ashwin to Gibbs, OUT, Do we have a run out? Gibbs nudges it into the leg side in front of square leg, Raina charges forward and flicks an accurate throw to the keeper, there is hesitation out in the middle and Laxman is late to react to the single and is found short as Dhoni collects and whips out the bails | ||||||||||||||
VVS Laxman run out 12 (11b 2x4 0x6) SR: 109.09 | |||||||||||||||
The bowling change has delivered the wicket Chennai so badly wanted. But in comes another overseas star, Herschelle Gibbs | |||||||||||||||
4.4 | Ashwin to Gilchrist, OUT, bowled'im, Gilchrist has been sent back, slower through the air and gave it some flight, Gilchrist stepped out of his crease to crack it through the leg side, it landed on leg to spin away and beat the swing of the bat to crash into middle and off | ||||||||||||||
AC Gilchrist b Ashwin 38 (17b 4x4 3x6) SR: 223.52 | |||||||||||||||
4.4 | Ashwin to Gilchrist, 1 wide, Not the best start here, down the leg side again, another wide | ||||||||||||||
4.3 | Ashwin to Gilchrist, FOUR, targeting middle this time and Gilchrist, despite the cover in the deep on the leg side, backs himself to go after him, bends low and sweeps it hard behind square for a boundary | ||||||||||||||
4.3 | Ashwin to Gilchrist, 1 wide, fires it down the leg side, much quicker but the direction wrong, the 50's up | ||||||||||||||
4.2 | Ashwin to Laxman, 1 run, kept it flat and got it to turn in, Laxman had shaped up for a drive through the off but turned the face at the right time to nudge it into the leg side for a single | ||||||||||||||
4.1 | Ashwin to Gilchrist, 1 run, short of a length on leg stump, punched towards the widish long-on for a single | ||||||||||||||
Spin from both ends now, R Ashwin, the offspinner, comes on | |||||||||||||||