Batsmen in control at Adelaide

Press, 26 January 1981, Page 6

Batsmen in control at Adelaide

I .X’ZPA Adelaide! j The Adelaide Oval pitch has 1 C blunted both bowlins attacks.if and the second test between India and Australia looks des-lF ' lined to finish in a tame draw. i I .At the close of play yesterday, .'.4 i India was 371 lor five wickets, I with Sandeep Patil not cut 150 E and Yashpal Sharma not out 47. J The Australian captain,. Greg R 1 Chappell used eight bowlers. B finally resorting to his vice-cap- . tain. Kim Hughes, just hefore E 'stumps as the. Indian batsmen ! controlled the last two sessions. R i Sandeep Patil reached his L I maiden test, century in only 145 '•minutes from 125 balls, and had I great support from. Chet an Chaui han and Yashpal. | Chauhan, who showed great 4.3 j concentration throughout his in- ' nings. was finally cut for 97 2; iafter a 103 stand with Patil. Di I Dennis Lillee, who bowled off 6, ja short run- for most of the day, had Chauhan caught behind by 'Rod Marsh. " S. Lillee was the best of the Aus- C. tralian bowlers, and was also reI warded with the wdcket of. Dilip S. ' Vengsarkar. ; Australia looked likely to force G. I India to follow-on in the first D. session when it quickly took the • wickets of Sliivlal Yadav for 16. Si Gundappa Viswanath for three, Y. land Vengsarkar for two. ' But then Patil took control, and in stands with Chauhan and Yashpal avoided the follow-on and gave. .India a chance of . reaching Australia's mammoth 523. to which Kim Hughes con- H< tributed 213.- 52 AUSTRALIA pe First innings . 0; •L Dyson c Gavaskar b. . 0.

e! Kapil Dev ,3( s'G. Wood e Doshi b Yadav 12c iJG. Chappell c Ghauhan b n'. Doshi - 36 -<K. Hughes c Yashpal b Yadav 213 , A. Border c Gavaskar b , ; Kapil Dev 57 )I D. Walters c Viswanath b Yadav ..... 20 ! R. Marsh run out. 0 . B. Yardley c Viswanath b Doshi 12 ; D. Lillee c Kapil Dev b Doshi 2 R. Hogg c and b Yadav ... 11 i L. Pascoe not out .... 1 Extras (131 b Iw, 7nb) . 2! Total • 528 Fall: 84, 152. 234, 363. 393. 399, 435 , 461, 505 . 528. Bowling: Kapil Dev. 32, 5. 112. 2; K. Ghavri, 27, 3. 106. 0; D. Doshi. 48, 6, 146, 3; S. Yadav, 42.4, 6, 143. 4. INDIA First inning's S. Gavaskar b Pascoe 23 C. Chauhan c Marsh b Lillee 97 S. Yadav c Chappell b ' Yardley 16 G. Viswanath lbw b Hogg 3 D. Vengsarkar lbw b Lil.lee 2 Si Patil not out 150 Y. Sharma not out ... 47 Extras (12b, 71b, 2w, 12nb) 33 Total (for 5 wickets) 371 . Fall: 77, 112. 115, 130, 238. Bowling: Lillee, 25, 5, 64. 2: Hogg, 22. 5. 85. 1; Pascoe. 13. 1. 52, 1: Yardley, 43, 15 , 90, 1; Chappell, 6,2, 14. 0; Walters. 3. 0, 21, 0; Border, 4,1, 11, 0; Hughes. 1, 0.1,0.