da blaze casino： All that stood between Australia and victory was Rahul Dravid
Rahul Bhatia16-Dec-2003All that stood between Australia and victory was Rahul Dravid. And for a while, all that stood between Dravid and the target was Brad Williams. Bowling straight and fast outside off stump, Williams made Dravid look out of touch only a day after he scored 233. In one scorching over, he nicked a delivery to Adam Gilchrist – who dropped the difficult chance – and played at and missed two more that moved off the seam. Williams posed searing questions, and somehow, Dravid survived to score the winning runs.A breakdown of Williams’s bowling analysis reveals a persistent length and the near absence of loose deliveries, the reasons why India’s batsmen had such a hard time.
Length
Balls
Runs
Full
0
0
Yorker
0
0
Half-volley
4
4
Goodlength
30
11
Short-of-good-length
46
7
Short
4
12
If Williams did all the hard work, Stuart MacGill took on the onus of bowling like a millionaire, and gifted full tosses and short deliveries. Reputed to present one boundary opportunity each over, MacGill proved more generous towards the end of India’s innings. Though the turning pitch helped him dismiss Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar, bowling down the wrong line proved expensive for MacGill.
Line
Balls
Runs
Outsideoff
54
37
Off stump
11
12
Middlestump
7
5
Leg stump
9
4
Outsideleg
68
43
All India needed was 193 on a worn-out fifth-day pitch with the ball shooting through alarmingly low at times, and Brad Williams reverse-swinging deliveries at 135 kmph. Historically atrocious chasers, India’s batsmen braved it out under difficult conditions, and got home in relative comfort.
IndianInnings
1st
2nd
Incontrol
85.54%
77.52%
Not in control
14.46%
22.48%