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October
05, 2008
 Yuvraj
Singh smashed an entertaining century while Wasim Jaffer
missed his one slightly on the fourth and final day's play of
the President's XI and Australians match at Hyderabad. The
match ended in a draw with the Australian Skipper Ricky
Ponting scoring an unbeaten 58 (from 97 balls with 7 fours and
2 sixes) along with Michael Clarke (who made an unbeaten 36
from 70 balls with 5 fours) to secure the stalemate. Now all
the action shifts to Bangalore where the first Test of the
Border-Gavaskar Trophy begins from the 9th.
There was an opportunity for the Board's
team to force a win through a declaration early this morning.
But Yuvraj Singh decided against it and used the time to give
a real punishment to the Australian bowlers with his
blistering strokeplay. Wasim Jaffer kept his end with a lot of
care before Stuart Clark found some reverse swing going in his
favour to dismiss both the batsmen. First to go
was Yuvraj who nicked one behind in an attempted expansive
drive and Jaffer had no clue to a big reversing inswinger.
Yuvraj Singh struck 7 fours and 7 sixes in his knock of 113
which came in 143 balls. Jaffer scored 93 through 12 fours
facing 159 balls. The pair of Jaffer and Yuvraj put on 200
runs for the 3rd wicket. Yuvraj declared the innings after 70
overs to give an unrealistic target of 434 for the Aussies.
First innings centurions - Rohit Sharma (29 from 39 balls with
6 fours) and Virat Kohi (16 from 33 balls with 2 fours) stayed
unbeaten at the time of declaration with the Board's team at
292 for 4.
The Australian openers Katich and Hayden
were dismissed cheaply when they came out to bat. Katich
played a loose cut shot off Gony and Hayden got lbw to leggie
Piyush Chawla. The remaining part of the match was seen
through by Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke.
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