Tendulkar misses century again

Melbourne, December 27^th

India were 214 for 3 at stumps on the 2^nd day of the Boxing day test at Melbourne against Australia. India trail Australia by 109 runs , having bowled the host for 333 in the 1^st innings. Three half centuries the India 1^st innings. Sachin made 73 and once again missed out on his ton of centuries. He fell at 214 to bring in a night watchman after a stnd of 117 runs for the 3^rd wicket with Rahul Dravid who remained un beaten on 68.Sewag had earlier made 67 and completed 8,000 runs in test circket.Zaheer Kahn( 4for77) Ashwin 3 for 81 and Umesh Yadav 3for 106 were amongst the wickets in the Australian 1^st innings.Debutante opener Ed Cowain and Ponting scored half centuries with 68 and 62 respectively in the Aussue 1^st innings. Sidel  41 ,Clarke 31 and Warner 37 also contributed with the bat.Yadav made a telling first appearance in Australia claiming the 1^st few wickets . Ponting and Cowain featured in a century stand for the 3^rd wicket 113 runs .