India should have sent back Katich soon after play began but Dravid at first slip grassed the thick edge despite getting both hands to the ball flying to his left. The batsman was on 94 and became the fourth Australian player to make a century on this tour.

It was Katich's fourth century outside his home country and first since hitting two in the West Indies in May-June that had revived his stuttering career.

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