North's ton helped Australia to post a reasonable total before the Indians in the second test match at Bangalore.Marcus North's 128 runs pushed Australia slightly forward in the second test.Early in the morning of day-2 both the Australian batsmen North and Paine started of carefully but Paine was stumped by M.S.Dhoni,a smart work behind the stumps.Mitchel Johnson also fell before the Indian spinners.But Hauritz showed some ruggedness to the Indian bowlers in his 17 runs and made a good partnership with North.This 128 is his career best and this 478 is Australia's highest team total in Bangalore.Harbhajan claimed4 wickets while Ojha got three wickets in the first innings.
In reply India lost early wickets as Sehwag(7)and Dravid(1) returned to the pavilion as quick as possible.But steady Vijay(39*) and Sachin(43*) are building the Indian total slowly.India need to make the difference as short as possible as we had seen that in the first a mere lead of 23 runs had brought India in trouble at the end.Now India is at 124/2 ....
