India bat like champions on Day1, pillage 417 on opening day
The first day of 2nd test match totally belong to India. Gautam Gambhir notched up his seventh hundred in nine Tests, Virender Sehwag completed a feisty century, Rahul Dravid was close to his ton and India posted the highest total scored in a day in a Test in India.
It started with the 233 run stand between centurions, Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir who scored at a very quick rate. That was followed by a 137 run stand for the second wicket between Gambhir and Rahul Dravid before Muralidaran got rid of Gambhir in the last session of play. India look poised to post a mammoth total on the board. It was the first time India scored over 400 in a day, it was the highest opening partnership between Gambhir and Sehwag, and even, Muralitharan, at one point, was leaking at over 6 runs per over.
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