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India in deep trouble

AFP, Adelaide
India had their backs to the wall against Australia in the second cricket Test here Saturday after the double blow of losing master batsman Sachin Tendulkar and skipper Saurav Ganguly.
The Indians, faced with a Ricky Ponting-dominated first innings total of 556, lost the key wickets of Tendulkar and Ganguly 10 minutes apart and facing the task of passing the follow-on target of 356.
At the close of the second day's play at the Adelaide Oval, India were 180 for four with Rahul Dravid not out 43 and VVS Laxman on 55 rebuilding the innings after the shudder of quick wickets.
India were shaken by the loss of their champion batsman Tendulkar for one, out driving
Andy Bichel into the gloves of wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist. In two innings this series Tendulkar has scored just one run.
But there was further calamity for the tourists when Ganguly, a fluent century-maker in the first Test, was run out in a dreadful mix-up with Dravid for two.
Ganguly attempted a second run off Jason Gillespie but had to double back to the bowler's end only to be just beaten home by the combination of a throw from Brad Williams and smart work by Stuart MacGill to knock off the bails.
Dravid and Laxman were conjuring memories of their part in India's famous 171-run win over Steve Waugh's team at Calcutta two years ago with their matchturning 376-run fifth wicket partnership.
"I don't even want to think about that (Calcutta loss) ... they are very good players and I'm sure they would have had those
thoughts going through their minds today," said Ponting, who scored a record 242 in Australia's first innings.
Laxman continued his fine series form after a 75 in Brisbane and raised his half-century off 95 balls with six boundaries.
"We have got to come up with some plans overnight to try to restrict these guys, they're quite free-flowing when they get going and hopefully break the partnership sooner than later," Ponting said.
India lost the wickets of openers Akash Chopra (27) and Virender Sehwag (47) before tea.
Bichel, whose place in the Australian team was under threat after a dismal bowling performance of 1-130 in the first Brisbane Test, bounced back with three wickets for 55 off 12 overs.
He took a diving return catch to dismiss Chopra in the 12th over and four overs later had Sehwag snapped up at first slip low down by Matthew Hayden.
But it was his cheap dismissal of Tendulkar in his seventh over which could prove decisive in this Test.
Australia were dismissed not long after lunch, the last three wickets falling in spinner Anil Kumble's 43rd over with Ricky Ponting scoring 242, the highest by an Australian against India.
Ponting surpassed teammate Justin Langer's 223 in the 19992000 series in Australia as he maintained his dominance of the depleted Indian attack.
Ponting batted for 508 minutes and faced 352 balls, hitting 31 fours before he was caught by Dravid at slip attempting a late cut off a Kumble googly.
Kumble also claimed the wickets of the tailenders, bowling Williams and having MacGill leg before wicket for ducks to finish with 5-154.
Gillespie was left stranded on 48 two short of his maiden Test halfcentury.
Upon reaching his second Test double-century, Ponting waved his helmet and bat towards the team dressingroom and blew a kiss to his wife Rianna watching in the stands.
"She was actually thinking about going home after yesterday so I told her to hang around for a while because there might have been something special happening, she stayed on and managed to see me score 200 which was nice," Ponting said.
The Australians maintained their aggressive scoring tempo of 4.4 runs per over in the morning session. Adam Gilchrist, nine overnight, moved to 29 before failing to get hold of a pull shot off Ajit Agarkar and being caught by Sehwag at deep mid-wicket with the score at 426.
Bichel added 47 for the seventh wicket before he was caught at batpad by Chopra off Kumble for 19.
Kumble gained a five-wicket reward for the innings with his dismissals of Ponting, Williams and MacGill in five balls.
Australia's 556 total was scored in 537 minutes off 127 overs.
SCOREBOARD
Scoreboard at stumps on the second day of the second Test between Australia and India at the Adelaide Oval on Saturday:
AUSTRALIA: First innings (overnight 400-5)
Langer c Sehwag b Kumble 58
Hayden c Patel b Pathan 12
Ponting c Dravid b Kumble 242
Martyn c Laxman b Nehra 30
Waugh b Nehra 30
Katich c Sehwag b Agarkar 75
Gilchrist c Sehwag b Agarkar 29
Bichel c Chopra b Kumble 19
Gillespie not out 48
Williams b Kumble 0
MacGill lbw b Kumble 0
Extras: (lb-8, w-1, nb-4) 13
Total: (All out in 127 overs) 556
Fall of wickets: 1-22, 2-135, 3-200, 4-252, 5-390, 6-426, 7-473, 8-556, 9-556
Bowler O M R W
Agarkar 26 1 119 2
Pathan 27 3 136 1
Nehra 25 3 115 2
Kumble 43 3 154 5
Sehwag 5 0 21 0
Tendulkar 1 0 3 0
INDIA: First innings
Chopra c and b Bichel 27
Sehwag c Hayden b Bichel 47
Dravid not out 43
Tendulkar c Gilchrist b Bichel 1
Ganguly run out (Williams) 2
Laxman not out 55
Extras: (lb-2, w-1, nb-2) 5
Total: (For 4 wkts in 51 overs) 180
Fall of wickets: 1-66, 2-81, 3-83, 4-85 To bat: Patel, Agarkar, Kumble, Pathan, Nehra
Bowler O M R W
Gillespie 13 4 45 0
Williams 10 3 27 0
Bichel 12 2 55 3
MacGill 10 2 29 0
Katich 3 0 19 0
Waugh 3 1 3 0