da fazobetai： West Indies saved the follow-on on the third day at Port-of-Spain … just.
da realbet： Steven Lynch23-Aug-2005West Indies saved the follow-on on the third day at Port-of-Spain … just.Daren Ganga and Marlon Samuels batted well, but the lower ordercouldn’t keep up the momentum and the innings folded for 408.Australia took a handy first-innings lead of 168, and extended that toone short of 200 for the loss of Justin Langer in an uncharacteristicallyrestrained hour’s batting before the close.It took some time, but Australia eventually worked their way through theWest Indian batting order. Steve Waugh hasn’t batted in this match yet,and won’t mind too much if he misses out tomorrow as well. On abelter of a pitch, albeit one showing signs of occasional unevenbounce and offering substantial turn, Waugh will be looking to pushthat lead towards 400 before letting his fast men off the leash again.Ganga’s century, his second in successive Test innings after 17matches without one, gave West Indies hope in the first session. Thespinners, Stuart MacGill and Brad Hogg, were turning the ballappreciably, but Ganga picked them with great certainty, apart from theodd rush of blood, building on his century at Georgetown. He cracked15 fours and a six in his century,It was Ganga’s second Test hundred, and his first at home in Trinidad.Ironically Brian Lara, who was out for 91 late on the second day, has yetto reach three figures in 10 Tests on his home island. Some estimateshad it that 5000 extra people might have ventured to the ground on thisEaster Monday if Lara had still been batting.Ganga had 117 by lunch, but failed to add to his score afterwards. BrettLee, armed with the new ball, moved one away from him – the perfectpacy outswinger – and Matthew Hayden clutched a screamer into hismidriff (279 for 5). The new batsman, the debutant David Bernard,played straight enough despite being clunked on the head by a Leebouncer that flew off for four leg-byes, but had made only 7 when JasonGillespie threaded one through the gate and knocked back his offstump (300 for 6).Samuels, who made two single-figure scores in the first Test, wassketchy at first against Lee, but blossomed later, unfurling somedeadeye drives. One over from Hogg cost 14, including an off-drive thatblistered to the boundary, followed by a huge six over the cycle-trackinto the crowd at long-on. At 47 Samuels was caught by Hayden at firstslip off Andy Bichel, but it was a no-ball. He sauntered to a half-century,in 130 minutes, in the next over.At the other end another new cap, the diminutive wicketkeeper CarltonBaugh, played a breezy innings. In the first match of the Australians’tour Baugh bagged a century for the President’s XI in Georgetown.Here he played some breezy strokes and helped Samuels put on 67,but at 19, off what turned out to be the last ball before tea, hedemolished his own stumps trying an extravagant cut (367 for 7). It wasMacGill’s 100th Test wicket, in only his 21st match.West Indies nibbled nervously at the tea-time sandwiches, needing 10to save the follow-on. Samuels fell for 68 with the lead exactly 200,chipping a catch to the incoming Bichel at long-off (376 for 8). VasbertDrakes earned a huge cheer for the vital single, and although he soonlost Merv Dillon – lbw to Jason Gillespie for his 25th Test duck (384 for9) – Drakes set the Trini Posse jiving with two huge sixes off Hogg, oneof which nearly reached the TV commentary box.Drakes was eventually trapped in front, a fourth wicket for Lee. Despitethe extravagant turn the spinners extracted at times, it was the fast menthat did the damage: Gillespie was also waspish and wasted little.West Indies may have saved the follow-on, but they haven’t saved thismatch yet.
