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Mumbai turns minefield

18 wickets fall on the second day

AFP, Mumbai
India's prolific leg-spinner Anil Kumble wrecked Australia to leave the fourth and final Test hanging in the balance after 18 wickets fell on a spiteful pitch during the second day's play on India, who crashed for 104 earlier in the day, hit back to bowl Australia out for 203 with Kumble taking 5-90 and Murali Kartik 4-44 on a wicket where the ball turned and jumped to make life miserable for batsmen.
Trailing by 99 runs on the first innings, India were 5-0 in their second knock by stumps, needing a big score on Friday to put Australia under pressure and secure a facesavingwin.
Australia enjoy an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series after winning the first and third Tests. The second Test was drawn.
Australia lost four wickets before India's total had been surpassed, but Damien Martyn hit 55 and Adam Gilchrist smashed an 18-ball 26 to boost the score.
On a bowler-dominated day at the Wankhede stadium, paceman Jason Gillespie and debutant spinner Nathan Hauritz combined to bowl India out in just 41.3 overs 10 minutes before lunch.
Gillespie grabbbed three wickets in the space of four runs to finish with 4-29 and Hauritz, a last-minute replacement for the injured Shane Wame, chipped in with3-16.
India, who resumed at 22-2 from 11 overs bowled on the rain-hit opening day, collapsed to 33-5 before the last five wickets added 71 runs to lift the hosts past the 100 -run mark
It was India's lowest total at home against Australia, falling below the 135 they made at the Ferozcshah Kotla in New Delhi way backin 1959-60. Rahul Dravid, leading India in the absence of the injured Sourav Ganguly, was the lone batsman to offer resistance with an unbeaten31.
Five of the six specialist batsmen failed to get into double figures. Sachin Tendulkar, looking hope lessly out of touch after his return from a tennis elbow injury, groped for 43 minutes here to make five.
Some 15,000 home fans, horrified by their team’s pathetic batting display, cheered loudly as India fought back through its bowlers.
Dravid asked off-spinner Harbhajan Singh to share the new ball with Zaheer Khan, but it was the left-arm seamer who provided the break by having Justin Langer caught in the slips by the captain himself.
It was Dravid's 109th catch in Test cricket and bettered Sunil Gavaskar's Indian record of 108 catches by a fielder other than the wicketkeeper.
Captain Ricky Ponting, playing his first match in the series following a thumb injury, made 11 when he was trapped leg-before by Kumble.
Hayden smashed three sixes and a four in 35 before being snapped up at short-leg off left-arm spinner Kartik, ending a 44-run stand for the third wicket with Martyn.
Kumble removed Simon Katich and Michael Clarke to make Australia 121-5, but Gilchrist helped Martyn
take the total to 157 with lusty hitting.
Gilchrist hit three fours and a six before he was caught in the leg-trap off Kartik.
Kumble accounted for Gillespie and Hauritz in quick succession to take his 27th five-wicket haul in 87 matches. He is the leading wickettaker in the series with 26 victims.
SCOREBOARD
Scoreboard at stumps on the second day of the fourth and final Test between India and Australia at the Wankhede Stadium In Mumbai on Thursday:
INDIA: First innings (overnight 22-2) Gambhir lbw b Gillespie 3 Sehwag b McGrath 8 Dravid not out 31 Tendulkar c Gilchrist b Gillespie 5 Laxman c Gilchrist b Gillespie 1 Kaiflbwb Gillespie 2 Karthik b Kasprowicz 10 Kumble c Ponting b Hauritz 16 Harbhajan c Katich b Hauritz 14 Kartikc Gilchrist b Hauritz 0 Zaheer b Kasprowicz 0 Extras: (b-6,lb-7,nb-l) 14 Total: (All out in 41.3 overs) 104 Fall of wickets: 1-11,2-11,3-29,4-31, 5-33,6-46,7-68,8-100,9-102
Bowler O M R W McGrath 16 9 35 1 Gillespie 12 2 29 4 Kasprowicz 8.3 3 11 2 Hauritz 5 0 16 3 AUSTRALIA: First innings
Langer c Dravid b Zaheer 12 Hayden c Kaif b Kartik 35 Ponting lbw b Kumble 11 Martyn b Kartik 55 Katich c Kaifb Kumble 7
Clarke st Karthikb Kumble 17 Gilchrist c Kaif b Kartik 26 Gillespie c Kaif b Kumble 2 Hauritz c Harbhajan b Kumble 0 Kasprowicz c Kumble b Kartik 19 McGrath not out 9 Extras: (b-2, lb-4, nb-4) 10 Total: (All out in 61.3 overs) 203 Fall of wickets: 1-17, 2-37, 3-81, 4-101, 5-121, 6-157, 7-167, 8-171, 9-184
Bowler O M R W Zaheer 6 0 10 1 Harbhajan 21 4 53 0 Kumble 19 0 90 5
Kartik 15.3 1 44 4 INDIA: Second innings
Gambhirnotout 1
Sehwagnotout 4
Extras: 0
Total: (For no loss In3 overs) 5 Bowler O M R W Gillespie 2 0 5 0 Hauritz 110 0