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Lara, Ganga steady hosts

REUTERS, Port-of-Spain
West Indies captain Brian Lara hit a pulsating 91 to keep his team alive in the second Test on Sunday after Ricky Ponting's first Test double century and Adam Gilchrist's unbeaten 101 had put Australia in a commanding position.
Lara was agonisingly close to his first
there."
Lara and Ganga, who both made centuries in last week's first Test in Guyana, came together after the West Indies lost two quick wickets for 25 runs in the seven overs before tea.
Lara made a cautious start but got into stride after Australia brought on legspinner Stuart MacGill, hitting him for a four and two sixes in successive balls.
In the next over, Lara hit Andy Bichel for successive boundaries, survived a loud lbw appeal, then completed his half century when he swept through the
offside for two.
He faced 63 balls and hit five fours and two sixes.
Ganga was not far behind as he completed his half century, which included eight boundaries off 65 deliveries, two balls later.
Lara then greeted Hogg by hitting him for a six in his first over before fast bowler Jason Gillespie returned to slow the scoring and quieten the crowd in the last few overs of the day.
Lara, who appeared to be getting increasingly nervous as he approached what would have been his 20th Test century, could not believe his dismissal, asking for a replay before heading back to the pavilion.
West Indies had been in dire trouble early when Devon Smith, playing his second Test, edged a Gillespie delivery and was caught behind by Gilchrist for a duck in the second over of the innings.
Wavell Hinds was then dismissed on the last ball before the tea interval, having made 20, when he edged Brett Lee to Matthew Hayden at first slip.
Australia declared on 576 for four shortly before tea with Ponting making 206, while Gilchrist made an unbeaten 101.
Ponting, in outstanding form after scoring 140 in the World Cup final last month and a hundred in the first Test in Guyana, reached his landmark by taking two runs off Vasbert Drakes in the third over after lunch.
Ponting, whose previous best was 197 against Pakistan in Perth in 1999, had been at the crease for 476 minutes, faced 344 balls, hit 23 fours and one six before reaching his 200.
He was finally out for 206 when he was stumped by Carlton Baugh off Marlon Samuels.
Gilchrist reached his hundred, the eighth of his 41-match Test career, after driving Mervyn Dillon through the offside for two runs, having lofted him for six through the onside earlier in the same over.
Gilchrist, the third Australian to make a century in the innings following Darren Lehman's 160 on Saturday, faced 105 balls and hit eleven fours and two sixes.
The pair took the score from 391 for three overnight to 517 at lunch as they handed out severe punishment to the lacklustre three-man West Indies attack.
Pedro Collins took the brunt of the punishment as he was smashed for 123 runs off only 25 overs, while debutant Dave Bernard conceded 61 runs off eleven overs.
SCOREBOARD
Scoreboard at the close of play on the second day of the second Test between Australia and the West Indies at the Queen's Park Oval on Sunday:
AUSTRALIA: First innings (overnight 391-3)
Langer lbw b Dillon 25
Hayden lbw b Dillon 30
Ponting st Baugh b Samuels 206
Lehmann c Baugh b Drakes 160
Gilchrist not out 101
Hogg not out 17
Extras: (b-11, lb-7, nb-12, w-7) 37
Total: (For 4 wkts declared) 576
Fall of wickets: 1-49, 2-56, 3-371,
4-542
Did not bat: S Waugh, A Bichel, B Lee, J Gillespie, S MacGill
Bowler O M R W
Dillon 28.5 1 124 2
Collins 25 1 123 0
Drakes 33 4 112 1
Samuels 26 2 111 1
Bernard 11 1 61 0
Sarwan 2 0 7 0
Hinds 7 0 20 0
WEST INDIES: First innings
Hinds c Hayden b Lee 20
Smith c Gilchrist b Gillespie 0
Ganga not out 69
Lara b Hogg 91
Sarwan not out 1
Extras: (lb-2, nb-3) 5
Total: (For 3 wkts) 186
Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-25
To bat: M Samuels, D Bernard, C Baugh
M Dillon, V Drakes, P Collins
Bowler O M R W
Lee 8 1 33 1
Gillespie 13 5 25 1
Bichel 7 0 42 0
MacGill 7 0 50 0
Hogg 8 1 33 1
Waugh 2 1 1 0