Wednesday, January 24, 2007

India Won by 20 Runs

India Won by 20 Runs

Despite a worst batting display by Indian Top order today, India won the match by 20 runs and leads the tour by 2-0. India started the game as favorites as there were lot of crowd to see the Prince of Bengal saurav Ganguly who is playing ODI after 16 months lay off from international matches. In the last match Sourav Ganguly had a good Innings and people expected that Sourav ganguly will display a better show here in cuttack but Sourav Ganguly failed to display.

It is not only Sourav Ganguly but the entire top order of indian cricket team failed to perform well in this pitch. Gambir got down for 2 sachin for none Ganguly for 13 and Dravid for 22. It was a biggest fight back by Dinesh Karthick and Ajit Agarkar who took the team from 90 for seven to a decent total. Their partnership which lasted for 62 runs. This was the crucial partnership which took India to a decent total.

It was Ajit Agarkar who started the game by removing gayle for five. After that it was Romesh Pawar and Sachin Tendulkar's Day who took 3 and 2 wickets respectively. They brought the game to India's favor by removing the dangerous players of West Indies.

Finally it was a Bowlers game today in cuttack.

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