India Tour of Australia, 1st day of 3rd Test, Australia Scored 259 runs for 5 Wickets, In Melbourne

India Tour of Australia, 1st day of 3rd Test, In Melbourne. See the complete score card of second day of the 3rd Test.

Score card
Australia
Chris Rogers         - 57
David Warner       - 0
Shane Watson       - 52
Steven Smith (c)   - 72, Batting
Shaun Marsh         - 32
Joe Bums              - 13
Brad Haddin (wk) - 23, Batting

India
Umesh Yadav              - 2 wickets
Mohammed Shami      - 2 wickets
Ravichandran Ashwin - 1 wickets

India tour of Australia, Australia scored 259 runs for 5 wickets in the 1st day of 3rd Test match Cricket against India in Melbourne. Australia scored 259 runs for 5 wickets against India at the first day end. Now captain Steven Smith is the top scorer of Australia, Smith scored 72 (contains 4 fours and 1 six) runs from 158 balls.

Chris Rogers scored 57 runs and Shane Watson scored 52 runs for Australia. David Warner was big failure in first innings of the 3rd Test match against India.

Umesh Yadav and Mohammed Shami took 2 wickets each for India. Ashwin took the wicket of Shane Watson.

Indian captain M.S Dhoni took Australia's 3 catches ( Chris Rogers, Shaun Marsh and Joe Bums). India had lost 1st and 2nd Test matches against Australia.There are 4 Test series between India and Australia. India has to win 2 Test matches to get tie against Australia.

Australia has big chance to win the Test series against India. Australian Captain Smith shows, how to lead a team in Test match Cricket.

Australia had won the first Test match against India for 48 runs in Adelaide on 13 December 2014. On 21 December 2014, Australia won the 2nd Test Match against India for 4 wickets in Woolloongabba, Brisbane.

The 4th Test match is on 6 January 2015 in Sydney Cricket ground. The Test match between India and Australia ends on 10 January 2015.