Match summary:
Pakistan won the toss and asked India to bat first on a good batting wicket.Pakistan surprisingly dropped Shoaib Akthar who had been injured and India included Murali Karthick in the place of Harbhajan Singh who had abruised finger.
India opened with the new opening pair of Virender Sehwag and Irfan Pathan as against the normal opening pair of Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag.
Sehwag was the first to go as he was caught by wicket keeper Akmal of the bowling of Mohammed Asif Who bowled a beautiful delivery to get rid of Sehwag.
Sachin Tendulkar came in next as he and Irfan Pathan frustrated the Pakistani’s for over an hour.Pathan was especially good as he brought some sweet cover drives and played some beautiful shots on offside and onside with Sachin Tendulkar giving him good support. Irfan’s run feast continued as he scored 65 runs in quick time and forged a 90 run partner ship with Sachin.
He was unlucky to get out as he responded very late to short delivery which he top edged to Imran Farhat at short fine leg.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni who came next continued Dhoni’s good work as he and Sachin played some good shots on both sides of the wicket.Sachin who was very hesistant in early part of his innings who had at one time scored just 20 runs from 40 balls shrugged of his initial hesitancy and began to play his shots
As he hit a huge six over long on of Arshad’s Khan bowling .
Mahendra Singh Dhoni continued from where he left as he hit 4 fours in an Razzaq’s over.He was particulary severe on Rana and Razzaq as he plundred more runs of them.He also did not give due respect to Arshad Khan who replaced Umar Gul as Supersub as he hit consecutive fours of him.
While Dhoni was tormenting Pakistani bowlers, Sachin at the other end played a supporting role to Dhoni and collected his runs beautifully by neatly placed one’s and two’s and with some carefully
placed shots .Dhoni who set for a big score was caught superbly by Shoaib Malik at the point of Asif’s bowling which brought an end to a good cameo knock.
Indian captain to keep the momentum going at the centre dropped himself down the order and sent Yuvraj Singh ahead of him. Yuvraj did not disappointed India’s captain as he scored a quick fie 39 runs from just 25 balls .Dravid was the next man to come in as Sachin reached his century with a single of
Arshad Khan .And it was welcome back moment for Sachin as it was his 39th century in one day cricket and when 96 he became the first player to go past 14000 run mark in the history of one day cricket.
At 45th over with score reading at 303/4 and with Sachin still there and having completed his century,I had expected Indians to go past the 350 mark.But the things changed suddenly as Sachin got a very rough decision after reaching his hundred and Dravid who was looking very good was consumed by a good Yorker bowled by Rana as only less than 26 runs came of the last five overs thanks to some good bowling by Rana,Arshad and Asif as Indians lost their wat due to madness after being 303/4 at one stage.Due to this sudden collapse India was all out for 328 as they failed to bat the full quota of 50 overs.
Pakistan won the toss and asked India to bat first on a good batting wicket.Pakistan surprisingly dropped Shoaib Akthar who had been injured and India included Murali Karthick in the place of Harbhajan Singh who had abruised finger.
India opened with the new opening pair of Virender Sehwag and Irfan Pathan as against the normal opening pair of Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag.
Sehwag was the first to go as he was caught by wicket keeper Akmal of the bowling of Mohammed Asif Who bowled a beautiful delivery to get rid of Sehwag.
Sachin Tendulkar came in next as he and Irfan Pathan frustrated the Pakistani’s for over an hour.Pathan was especially good as he brought some sweet cover drives and played some beautiful shots on offside and onside with Sachin Tendulkar giving him good support. Irfan’s run feast continued as he scored 65 runs in quick time and forged a 90 run partner ship with Sachin.
He was unlucky to get out as he responded very late to short delivery which he top edged to Imran Farhat at short fine leg.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni who came next continued Dhoni’s good work as he and Sachin played some good shots on both sides of the wicket.Sachin who was very hesistant in early part of his innings who had at one time scored just 20 runs from 40 balls shrugged of his initial hesitancy and began to play his shots
As he hit a huge six over long on of Arshad’s Khan bowling .
Mahendra Singh Dhoni continued from where he left as he hit 4 fours in an Razzaq’s over.He was particulary severe on Rana and Razzaq as he plundred more runs of them.He also did not give due respect to Arshad Khan who replaced Umar Gul as Supersub as he hit consecutive fours of him.
While Dhoni was tormenting Pakistani bowlers, Sachin at the other end played a supporting role to Dhoni and collected his runs beautifully by neatly placed one’s and two’s and with some carefully
placed shots .Dhoni who set for a big score was caught superbly by Shoaib Malik at the point of Asif’s bowling which brought an end to a good cameo knock.
Indian captain to keep the momentum going at the centre dropped himself down the order and sent Yuvraj Singh ahead of him. Yuvraj did not disappointed India’s captain as he scored a quick fie 39 runs from just 25 balls .Dravid was the next man to come in as Sachin reached his century with a single of
Arshad Khan .And it was welcome back moment for Sachin as it was his 39th century in one day cricket and when 96 he became the first player to go past 14000 run mark in the history of one day cricket.
At 45th over with score reading at 303/4 and with Sachin still there and having completed his century,I had expected Indians to go past the 350 mark.But the things changed suddenly as Sachin got a very rough decision after reaching his hundred and Dravid who was looking very good was consumed by a good Yorker bowled by Rana as only less than 26 runs came of the last five overs thanks to some good bowling by Rana,Arshad and Asif as Indians lost their wat due to madness after being 303/4 at one stage.Due to this sudden collapse India was all out for 328 as they failed to bat the full quota of 50 overs.
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