Don Bradman’s Australia in 1948 will face Steve Waugh’s Australia in 2002 in the biggest Test Team Final
The third final of the Team Test of the Greatest Test ended in a draw and neither the 1948 Australians nor their 2002 counterparts were able to secure the victory that would have given them the lead in the five-game series.
Don Bradman won the toss and chose to strike and would have loved his team’s start, going 110-1 with Sid Barnes completing half a century.
Steve Waugh then decided to trade and clinched gold when he forced his opposition captain, Bradman, to drag a short delivery of the strain.
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Barnes fell 92 points in the second after tea, before a pair of wickets for Jason Gillespie left the 1948 squad 276-6 late in day one.
Steve Waugh picked up the new ball early on day two, but Neil Harvey found an expert partner in Ray Lindwall and they added 76 for the seventh wicket. Shane Warne eventually made the breakthrough, ultimately resulting in the loss of the last four wickets by just 15 runs.
Shane Warne put four wickets in the first inning as 1948 Australia stood at 336
In response to 336, the 2002 team’s starters fell early, and Ricky Ponting and Mark Waugh had to resurrect the innings. However, they both fell in the 1930s, and when Steve Waugh joined them in the hutch for 21 years, day two ended with a 146-5 loss.
Damien Martyn and Adam Gilchrist managed to have lunch relatively smoothly on day three, but Martyn, sadly, slipped into his window while trying to cut the twist off Doug Ring’s leg.
Gilchrist was galvanized after hitting fifty, but eventually dropped to 91, exhausted after a confusion with Warne. Warne then hit with success, hitting 14 on another Miller to finish unbeaten at 60 and lead the 2002 team to a final total of 371, a useful lead of 35 in the first inning.
The 1948 team were cautious in their second inning, hitting the remainder of day three to go 32-0 over 15 overs. Bradman punched fluently on day four with his more cautious teammate Lindsay Hassett as they both hit half centuries of 87 and 136 balls respectively.
Gillespie knocked out Bradman by 50 and Miller soon followed by 18, but Hassett remained relatively calm and was joined by Neil Harvey, who also established his long-stick position and took the game out of reach for the 2002 squad. .
Don Bradman scored half a century in his team’s third test match with Australia 2002
Hassett dropped 95 points just before the end of day four of play and shortly after Harvey was sacked by McGrath early on the last day Bradman said, giving the 2002 Australians a 307 point chip to win, or more. Realistic, 60 overs hit. The day.
Starters Justin Langer and Matthew Hayden started off positively, adding 85 with almost four points, be fore Bill Johnston overtook Langer lbw for 32. Ricky Ponting and the Waugh twins fell relatively inexpensively, but Hayden continued, eventually falling. to Ring at the start of the last. 15 overs.
Martyn quickly fell in love with just seven, leaving him six wickets down with 16 overs to go, but the reassuring presence of Adam Gilchrist ensured the safety of his team, who finished 235-7.
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