3 rd ODI,India's innings
Rahul Dravid won a good toss and rightly decided to bat on a good batting wicket.Gautam Gabhir was dropped and the Skipper Rahul Dravid himself came to bat with out of form Virender Sehwag. Sehwag cracked two boundaries as he showed glimpses of his past form .
But he was unable to show his class as he was bowled by Anderson for an individual score of 15 runs.Irfan Pathan was rightly promoted to no:3 as Indians were short of one batsman. Pathan and Dravid made a very sedate start to the innings as they accelerated the scoring rate steadily.
Just when seemed this pair would take India to a good score ,Dravid perished as he was bowled by Collingwood. Pathan also did not lost long as he once again fell to Flintoff.Kaif soon followed Pathan as he fell for a fourth duck in five innings as he was caught by Jones of Pulnkett.
At 130/4 India were in some sort of trouble as they were playing one batsman short with only Dhoni to come besides Yuvraj and Raina. England could had India in more trouble had not Jones missed an easy stumping chance of Raina who was playing for the turn.
Then it was only fours and sixes as Yuvraj Singh and Raina settled down nicely in the beginning and then started to play shots all around the park as the fifth wicket partnership between Raina and Yuvraj Singh added 143 runs between them .
Yuvraj Singh was the main destroyer as he hit 3 sixes and 10 fours in 103 runs knock from just 76 ballls.Raina played a more supporting role as he scored 61 runs from 76 balls which included a huge six of Blackwell.
Dhoni who was next to come was more aggressive as he scored 2 runs of a ball which was defelcted on to stumps by Jones as he run the first run hard as he still saw Jones on his kneeds he went for second run as he completed it neatly.
In the end ,India finished with a score of 294/6 as Indians pounded more than 104 runs from the last 10 overs.
But he was unable to show his class as he was bowled by Anderson for an individual score of 15 runs.Irfan Pathan was rightly promoted to no:3 as Indians were short of one batsman. Pathan and Dravid made a very sedate start to the innings as they accelerated the scoring rate steadily.
Just when seemed this pair would take India to a good score ,Dravid perished as he was bowled by Collingwood. Pathan also did not lost long as he once again fell to Flintoff.Kaif soon followed Pathan as he fell for a fourth duck in five innings as he was caught by Jones of Pulnkett.
At 130/4 India were in some sort of trouble as they were playing one batsman short with only Dhoni to come besides Yuvraj and Raina. England could had India in more trouble had not Jones missed an easy stumping chance of Raina who was playing for the turn.
Then it was only fours and sixes as Yuvraj Singh and Raina settled down nicely in the beginning and then started to play shots all around the park as the fifth wicket partnership between Raina and Yuvraj Singh added 143 runs between them .
Yuvraj Singh was the main destroyer as he hit 3 sixes and 10 fours in 103 runs knock from just 76 ballls.Raina played a more supporting role as he scored 61 runs from 76 balls which included a huge six of Blackwell.
Dhoni who was next to come was more aggressive as he scored 2 runs of a ball which was defelcted on to stumps by Jones as he run the first run hard as he still saw Jones on his kneeds he went for second run as he completed it neatly.
In the end ,India finished with a score of 294/6 as Indians pounded more than 104 runs from the last 10 overs.
posted by RAMANEAN @ 9:41 AM
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