India crash to 123 defeat

Melbourne, December 29^th

India suffered its fifth straight overseas   test defeat as it crashed to 123 run defeat at Melbourne against Australia in the 1^st of the 4 Test Series.Chasing 292 to win India were bundled out for 168 . Sachin batting 32 Ashwin 30 were the only notable contributors .Pattinson 4 for 53, Sidel 3 for 42 were the main   wreckers of the  Indian innings.Earlier Australia were bowled out for 240 in the 2^nd innings .Hussey made 89 .For India, Umesh Yadav took 4 wickets and Zaheer Khan took 3 wickets.