Wednesday, October 22, 2008

India vs Australia : 3rd Test : Kotla, Delhi

With a thumping 320 runs win in Mohali, India has gone 1-0 up in the 4 test series against Australia. Though on current form, India look like they should wrap the series up comfortably, it would be silly to rule out world champions Australia. It would be interesting to see how Ponting manages to motivate his men for the remaining 2 tests.

The 3rd Test starts on the 29th October at Delhi's Feroze Shah Kotla grounds. Making things more difficult for Australia would be India's record in Kotla. Who can forget that this is the ground where Indian captain Kumble bagged all 10 wickets in an innings against Pakistan!

India has its own problems, though of the happy kind - two different players replaced Anil Kumble in the previous test at Mohali. While Dhoni took over the captaincy, debutatant Amit Mishra replaced him in the spin department. And both succeeded, and how! Should be interesting to see who is finally excluded from the XI.

Indian viewers can catch live action of the India-Australia test on TV on Neo Cricket (Neo Sports). Should you have information about the availability of the live telecast of the match in other countries ( especially UK, Malaysia, the Gulf and the US) please share with other readers in the comments area.

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