Australia fight back after early wobbles

Jan 02, 2008

The second Test began with Ishant Sharma called in to replace the injured Zaheer Khan•Getty Images

... when he ended Phil Jaques' run of outstanding form•AFP

... and was lucky to survive a caught-behind appeal against Sourav Ganguly•AFP

RP came back and found some more swing, dismissing Michael Hussey and Adam Gilchrist•Getty Images

and there was more disappointment for Ishant when he was slow off the mark in the outfield and missed chance to catch Brad Hogg•AFP

Symonds was thrilled to score his second Test century from 128 balls ...•AFP

But it was RP Singh who made the early breakthrough ...•Getty Images

RP was over the moon when he added Matthew Hayden's wicket to his collection•AFP

Michael Hussey gave Ponting some support in a 92-run partnership•Getty Images

Andrew Symonds was determined to help Australia fight back•AFP

Hogg outscored Symonds for much of their partnership ...•AFP

... and then settled down again to keep Australia's total growing as they went to stumps at 7 for 376•AFP

Ricky Ponting began Australia's recovery ...•AFP

Ponting struck nine fours in his 55 before he again fell to Harbhajan Singh•AFP

Ishant was convinced he had Symonds caught behind but Steve Bucknor disagreed ...•AFP

... and reached his first Test half-century from 57 balls•Getty Images