India loses Sehwag, reaches 53-1 at tea on day 3

Clarke's double ton leads dominant Australia

Sydney: India lost Virender Sehwag in their quest to save the second cricket Test and were 53 for one at tea, still trailing Australia by 415 runs, on the third day at the SCG here today.

Sehwag (4) chose a rank bad delivery from Ben Hilfenhaus to cut it uppishly for David Warner to take an acrobatic catch at point as India suffered a blow in only the fourth over of the innings.

Gautam Gambhir (39) and Rahul Dravid (7) were holding the fort at the break.

Opener Gambhir was looking good and had struck a few glorious boundaries, beginning with two successive fours off James Pattinson in the first over.

The left-hander then twice in succession cover drove Peter Siddle to the fence. The best stroke perhaps was the straight drove he executed off Siddle just before tea.

Just before the tea break, Gambhir twice dispatched Nathan Lyon to cover boundary off his final two deliveries. He has so far faced 42 balls and hit seven fours.

Earlier, Australian skipper Michael Clarke became the sixth Australian to make a triple century in Tests as records tumbled in a heap.

Clarke was unbeaten on 329 and his partner Michael Hussey on 150 when Australia declared their first innings at 659/4 giving them an overall lead of 468 runs.

The two batsmen put on 334 runs for the unbeaten fifth wicket which broke the back of Indian team.