Hughes, Doolan dominate final day

PHIL Hughes has scored his 25th first-class century and Alex Doolan was cruelly cut short from reaching triple figures as the second four-day match against India-A ended in a soggy draw.

Hughes was an even 100 and Doolan on 91 midway the second session when the skies above Brisbane opened to send the players scurrying from the field.
The pair added 202 runs, from 302 balls, and motored along at a tick above four an over but without any real prospect of ever forcing a result, on the final day.
India-A had started the day with a 78-run lead on the back of another ton to wicketkeeper Naman Ojha. Chadd Sayers had been the pick of the Australian bowlers, picking up two more wickets to finish the match with 5-84 off 30 overs.
Ojha was dismissed for the first time in the series after reaching his third consecutive century, and finished with a series aggregate of 430 runs with only the one dismissal.
Earlier, on a pitch that was expected to turn, the seamers picked up all the wickets in India’s innings with Chadd Sayers (5-84) and Ben Cutting (4-100) the pick of the bunch.
Cameron Boyce and Test spinner Nathan Lyon proved largely ineffective, finishing with figures of 0-101 and 0-147 respectively in what is likely to be their only bowl of the match.
First-match double-centurion Mitch Marsh (1-26) snared the only other wicket of day three. (CA)

 

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