Match Details

Players per side

Cricket Australia Chairman's XI 12 ( 11 batting, 11 fielding); Indians 13 ( 11 batting, 11 fielding)

Toss

Indians , elected to field first

Season

Hours of play (local time)

11am start, Lunch 13.00-13.40, Tea 15.40-16.00, Close 18.00

Match days

15,16 December 2011 (2-day match)

Close of Play

  • Thu, 15 Dec - day 1 - Cricket Australia Chairman's XI 1st innings 398/6 (TLW Cooper 182*, TP Ludeman 0*, 86 ov)
  • Fri, 16 Dec - day 2 - Indians 1st innings 320/6 (83.1 ov) - end of match

Match Notes

India tour of Australia 2011-12 News

  • Seventy-eight days later

    From Brisbane to Sydney and back again. Must be the CB Series then

  • Ian v Greg at the Chappell backyard

    The Chappell brothers' has to be the ideal childhood, one every lover of cricket would commit heinous crimes to enjoy

  • 'Indians weren't really interested in Test cricket' - Greg Chappell

    Greg Chappell, India's former coach, has said that India "weren't really in Test cricket" on their tour to Australia, and that "Test cricket is pretty tough for them"

  • Time for Tendulkar to introspect

    Ian Chappell, writing in Mid-Day , says as India's tour of Australia wore on, Tendulkar's form deteriorated; the Australian bowlers eventually got inside his mind and along with thoughts of his century this was too much for him to process.

  • Player-media rift not good for Indian cricket

    Boria Majumdar, writing in the Times of India , says the time has come for the BCCI to have a proper media policy and appoint a professional media manager following differences emerging between the press and the players during the Australian tour.

Indians 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st3G GambhirAM Rahane
2nd71R DravidG Gambhir
3rd33SR TendulkarR Dravid
4th133SR TendulkarVVS Laxman
5th?VVS LaxmanRG Sharma
6th6RG SharmaV Kohli
7th74RG SharmaWP Saha