Wednesday, January 28, 2009

INDIA 1.0 UP

It was a nice well deserved victory for India.
Yusuf Pathan's intelligent throw to stumps, resulting in 1st wicket fall of Srilanka may be termed as - well begun half done. Jaysurya - Man of the match, played a brilliant inning of 107 but none of his team-mates could help him in accelerating the run rate. Ishant Sharma did a marvelous jog by grabbing 3 wkts, thus forcing the middle order to remain in their limits. Srilanka anyhow managed a satisfactory total of 246/7.
Start of Indian innings was also disastrous. Great Tendulkar was victim of a very bad decission of umpire. He was given lbw on 5. But Gambhir was not at all disturbed. He continued playing his natural game without giving unneccesary respect to the bowlers. Raina gave a good company to Gambhir and their partnership of 113 runs wrote the story of India's victory on screen. Unfortunate run out of Raina was a big jolt but Yuvraj and Dhoni controlled the situation with patience.
Dhoni is a gem player. With the passage of time, he is getting more matured and intelligent. He was never in hurry. Throughout the innings, India appeared never in crisis. All players including Rohit Sharma were full of confidence. They did not bow down even a little to the spin magic of Mendis. The miraculous Mendis remained wicketless after his full quota of 10 overs. Indians have learnt how to play his magic spin. It is danger alarm for Srilankans. Had Sehwag been in the winning squad, match would have been finished in 40 overs.
It was a well deserved clinical win. Congrats Dhoni.

1 comment:

  1. I guess it would not be immature to say that Indian team have grown out of the shadows of the Tendulkars, the Gangulys and the Dravids.This young Indian brigade are posing a great threat to any quality side in the cricketing world and the thing which stands out the most in this spectacular rise of India is the kind of team spirit emanating from the indian team which I believe is the best that India had ever had. And none but Dhoni should be credited for instilling this team spirit. He does this by not just giving great speeches or guarantying places to the players but by winning matches as he did in this match. Indian middle order for long had been ailing for a solid batsman has found not one but atleast 3 under Mr cool-Dhoni. Kudos to Dhoni and I hope India does not lose the series otherwise I will have to bite my own words.

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