The last day did not see much of battle except for the first hour when Dravid fell to Lee. Rest of the day belong to India where they played silently and did not bother to add score quickly. In Test cricket, it is not possible to score quick runs on the fifth day, especially with a small lead of 36 runs.
With Sehwag out on the 4th day, the rest cannot play like him to add quick runs in the new ball, except for Tendulkar.
Three or four quick wickets before Lunch would have given Australia a chance, but India played well to ensure that they did not do that. India were 94 for 4 at lunch with Sachin batting on 24 and Laxman on 6.
Dravid and Gambhir fell on 5th day in the 6th and 12th over of the day respectively. Dravid dragged the ball inside and was bowled by Lee for another 11. Gambhir was unlucky to be given out leg before when the ball showed missing the leg stump. He scored 36. Tendulkar settled well and scoring nicely was a victim of soft dismissal. Once again White claimed the wicket of Tendulkar through a well flighted delivery pitched on off stump and spun away. Tendulkar tried to play the ball towards point, but played with the spin, steered it to slip and gave a simple catch to Hayden. He missed his 52nd half century by 3 runs.
Laxman scored another 50, his 36th in test cricket. He was not out on 59 with 7 fours. Ganguly remained not out on 32.
India declared the innings with 208 on the board and set a target of 245 in 23 overs.
Both teams agreed for a draw when Aussies were 31 for no wicket in 8 overs. In the remaining 15 overs, they needed 214 runs, which is not possible.
Laxman was awarded the man of the match award for his 200 not out in the first innings and 59 not out in the 2nd innings.
Scoreboard at the end of Day 5:
India 1st Innings 613 for 7 declared in 161 overs (Sehwag 1, Gambhir 206, Dravid 11, Tendulkar 68, Laxman 200 not out, Ganguly 5, Dhoni 27, Kumble 45, Zaheer Khan 28 not out, Extras--22 (b 6, lb 8, w 2, nb 6), Lee 30-2-119-1, S Clark 33-9-69-0, Johnson 32-4-142-3, Watson 20-4-66-2, White 15-1-73-0, M Clarke 14-0-59-0, Katich 15-3-60-1, Ponting 2-0-11-0)
Fall of Wickets: 1-5 (Sehwag, 2.1 ov), 2-27 (Dravid, 10.4 ov), 3-157 (Tendulkar, 51.5 ov), 4-435 (Gambhir, 123.6 ov), 5-444 (Ganguly, 126.2 ov), 6-481 (Dhoni, 133.4 ov), 7-579 (Kumble, 155.4 ov)
Australia 1st Innings 577 all out in 179.3 overs (Hayden 83, Katich 64, Ponting 87, Hussey 53, Michael Clarke 112, Watson 36, Haddin 17, White 44, Lee 8, Johnson 15, SR Clark 1 not out, Extras--57 (b 28, lb 17, w 2, nb 10), Zaheer Khan 23-5-86-0, I Sharma 25-5-84-0, Kumble 43.3-9-112-3, Mishra 47-12-144-2, Sehwag 40-9-104-5, Tendulkar 1-0-2-0)
Fall of Wickets: 1-123 (Katich, 34.1 ov), 2-202 (Hayden, 57.2 ov), 3-284 (Ponting, 85.4 ov), 4-326 (Hussey, 101.6 ov), 5-399 (Watson, 122.1 ov), 6-426 (Haddin, 131.5 ov), 7-532 (White, 162.5 ov), 8-555 (Lee, 175.4 ov), 9-567 (Clarke, 178.1 ov), 10-577 (Johnson, 179.3 ov)
India 2nd Innings (lead by 36 runs) 208 for 5 declared in 77.3 overs (Gambhir 36, Sehwag 16, I Sharma 1, Dravid 11, Tendulkar 47, Laxman 59 not out, Ganguly 32 not out, Extras--6 (lb 4, w 1, nb 1) Lee 17-3-48-2, SR Clark 12-6-22-1, MJ Clarke 20.3-7-56-0, Katich 1-0-5-0, Johnson 12-0-23-1, White 8-0-23-1, Watson 7-0-27-0)
Fall of Wickets: 1-29 (Sehwag, 8.2 ov), 2-34 (Sharma, 9.1 ov), 3-53 (Dravid, 20.4 ov), 4-93 (Gambhir, 36.5 ov), 5-145 (Tendulkar, 57.1 ov)
Australia 2nd Innings (target 245 runs) 31 for no loss in 8 overs (Hayden 16 not out, Katich 14 not out, Extras--1 (lb 1), Kumble 4-0-14-0, Sehwag 2-0-14-0, Mishra 2-0-2-0)
Result: Match Drawn
Man of the Match: VVS Laxman
Fall of Wickets: 1-29 (Sehwag, 8.2 overs), 2-34 (Sharma 9.1 overs)
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