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Lee Carseldine of the Queensland XI executes a pull shot during his century knock against India in Brisbane on Saturday.
The ragged Indian bowling attack once again let a batting reputation grow at its expense and its batsmen did little better in the seven possible overs to crumble to 17 for three at close against Queensland Academy of Sports XI. Lee Carseldine, playing his first game of the season after recovering from a knee injury, smashed a brilliant century as the home team cheekily declared at 304 for six, half an hour before close of play. The host backed its decision sensationally, removing the Indian openers and wicketkeeper Deep Dasgupta in the space of seven balls. Scott Bryant, a left-arm paceman of Zimbabwe-origin, removed Akash Chopra and Deep Dasgupta off successive deliveries in his second over though the Indian stumper was unlucky, as he had played fully stretched forward. India suffered another blow at the other end when Virender Sehwag (6) edged a flick down the legside off Joe Dawes for wicketkeeper Chris Hartley to complete a very good catch. Earlier, the Indians misfielded, overthrew and dropped catches and perhaps the only thing in their defence was they kept an attacking field throughout with no fielder in the deep. Anil Kumble picked up four wickets but neither he nor any other Indian bowler looked particularly threatening on a placid pitch with short boundaries and fast outfield. Carsledine walked in to bat in the second over of the day and stayed till well after tea break when he was smartly caught by Dasgupta who kept brilliantly against both pacers and spinners. Dasgupta showed his concentration was still good at the fag end of a hot day when he made a difficult stumping look easy against Craig Philipson who at 85 was looking good to be the second centurion of the day for the host. Philipson made 85 in 161 minutes from 138 deliveries with 12 fours and a towering six off Kumble when he came down the track and lifted the leg-spinner right to the sightscreen. Carseldine, a regular with Queensland first eleven but one who has suffered on count of injury lately, made 112 from four hours and 190 deliveries, hitting 15 fours and a six. Carseldine, who topped for Queensland last season with 709 runs at 44.31, looked in extremely good touch as he hit through the line and mostly with the full face of the bat. He is better known as someone who broke all of Michael Bevan's fitness record in the Australian Cricket Academy recently. Kumble's other two wickets were of home skipper Aaron Nye (15) and Steve Farrell (9) who were dismissed bowled and leg-before wicket respectively. The Indians began on a poor note when V.V.S. Laxman dropped opener Chris Simpson in the slips in the first over of the match by Ajit Agarkar. Later Akash Chopra, at silly point, failed to hold on to a catch off Philipson off Kumble. Simpson tore into the Indian bowling, Agarkar in particular, whom he repeatedly punched through the off-side and hooked whenever the frail medium-pacer pitched it short. Simpson also once flicked Irfan Pathan over the midwicket fence for a six to deflate the left-arm paceman who started off well by claiming a wicket off his very first ball of the tour, a leg before shout against Daniel Payne (0). Simpson finally departed when he gave a catch back to Agarkar after making 43 from 46 balls with eight fours and a six. So depleted was the Queensland team that the match was not accorded a first class status. Both teams were allowed to rotate their 12 players during the match though only eleven could bat. It allowed the Indians to keep Rahul Dravid in the twelve even as the Indian vice-captain was allowed a day off the field due to flu which he seems to have got from his teammates Kumble and Laxman. None of the Indian bowlers walked off with a good feeling, certainly not Laxmipathy Balaji who was hit for six boundaries in his first five overs and was given only 11 overs during the day. The scores: Queensland Academy of Sport — 1st innings: C. Simpson c and b Agarkar 43, D. Payne lbw b Pathan 0, L. Carseldine c Dasgupta b Kumble 112, A. Nye b Kumble 15, C. Philipson st Dasgupta b Kumble 85, S. Farrell lbw b Kumble 9, C. Hartley (not out) 21, R. Le Roux (not out) 5; Extras (b-4, lb-1, w-2, nb-7) 14; Total (for six wickets, declared) 304. Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-65, 3-137, 4-222, 5-256, 6-284. Indian bowling: Agarkar 18-4-73-1, Pathan 17-2-70-1, Balaji 11-3-36-0, Ganguly 4-0-16-0, Kumble 26-4-74-4, Sehwag 5-0-30-0. India — 1st innings: A. Chopra c Carseldine b Brant 0, V. Sehwag c Hartley b Dawes 6, D. Dasgupta lbw b Brant 0, V.V.S. Laxman (batting) 1, S. Ganguly (batting) 5, Extras (lb-5) 5, Total (for three wickets) 17. Fall of wickets: 1-7, 2-7, 3-11. Queensland Academy of Sport bowling: Dawes 4-1-10-1, Brant 3-2-2-2. — PTI
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