Australia v. India - 4 Test series.

[Donny]

Clarke's been batting in the nets this morning.

[Donny]

... and batting with Smith as play starts.

[Donny]

6/374.

Smith 85*, Clarke 67*.

[Donny]

Clarke 85 n.o. Steve Smith 93 n.o.

Australia 6/400.

[Donny]

6/405 as players leave the field. Rain.

Smith 98*, Clarke 85*.

[Donny]

6/423.

Smith 103*, Clarke 98*.

More rain.

[Donny]

Steve Smith in Tests for 2014: 115, 7, 100, 49, 0, 84, 36*, 22, 55, 0, 97, 100*

[Donny]

Pup joins Warner & Smith with Hughes tribute century.

Michael Clarke just reached 100* in the first Test against India, at the Adelaide Oval.

He joins fellow NSW team mates, Dave Warner and Steve Smith who also notched emotion laden centuries.

Australia 6/432. Smith 109*, Clarke 101*.

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[Donny]

Smith just whacked 15 from an Aaron over.

6/460.

Smith 137*, Clarke 105*.

[Donny]

7/517. Stumps. Bad light.

Michael Clarke scored 128. Smith is 162 n.o.

[Donny]

Only 3 batsmen have more Test hundreds than fifties (min. 25 hundreds), all Australian - Don Bradman, Matthew Hayden and Clarke. Clarke has now scored 28 hundreds and 27 fifties.

1407 - Runs scored by Clarke at Adelaide, at an average of 100.50. He is the only batsman to score 1000-plus runs at a 100-plus average at two Test venues. He has also scored 1030 runs at an average of 103 at Brisbane.

6. Number of times that three Australia batsmen have made centuries in the same innings against India. Three of those six instances have been at Adelaide.

5.91 - Varun Aaron's economy rate, the highest for any Indian who has bowled at least 20 overs in an innings. He bowled 23 overs for 136 runs. The previous worst was by Kapil Dev, 220 runs off 38.4 overs against Pakistan in 1983, but he did take seven wickets.


4 - Number of centuries scored by Smith while batting at No. 5. He is already seventh on the list of Australian batsmen who have made the most hundreds while batting at this position. Steve Waugh leads the list with 24 hundreds.

[Donny]

Clarke declared on the overnight score.

India 2/115. Wickets to Harris and Johnson.

[Jezza]

India - 4/300. Kohli is on 77 and Sharma is on 4! Lyon has figures of 2/83.

India currently trail by 218 runs with six wickets left in the first innings.

[Donny]

4/299. 2 wickets for Lyon.

Kohli is 76*

[Jezza]

Stumps at the end of day 3!

India 5/369 - Sharma 33 n.o and Saha 1 n.o

India currently trails by 148 runs with 5 wickets to spare in the first innings.