India win Nagpur ODI

2009-10-29 07:31:53 - India scale to rich high in its batting department at the show of ODI Nagpur with Team India batsmen playing their role except Sachin who missed a chance to score big total at batting wicket.Virender with his fire-brand 40,Gautam patiently made 76,Suresh Raina 62, Dhoni's skipper knock 124 with srike rate of all batmen near to 100 made the team India score their second win against, Team Australian with three of their key players injured.

Team Australia is vastly responsible to give world cricket an excellent standard with their right and swift fielding with dashing diving catches on the field and bowling department the world 's best.Their batsmen with copy book strokes are inspiration for cricket fraternity.The starndards set by cricket playing teams West Indies and South Africa in 70's and 80' s.India with their

batting excel of world class, fielding nearing to standards,bowling just to tame batsmen is advancing in the arena of best cricket playing nation with holistic skill of stamina plus patience.

India beat Australia by 99 runs in the second One-Day International Cricket match in Nagpur on Wednesday night. Ricky Ponting won the toss and put India to bat.Indian batsmen piled up a huge score of 354 runs.

Hurricane knock from the Virender 40 runs, Gautam 76, with a stand of 119 runs for the fourth wicket with skipper in only 113 balls and the openers to Yuvraj making 23 runs made the Oz bowler subdued.

With responsible captain’s knock, Mahinder Singh Dhoni hitting a brilliant 124 off 107 balls,Dhoni played an anchore role with two century stands 119 with Gambhir for fourth wicket and 136 with Raina for the fifth wicket India advance to average of 7 runs per over.

Australia conceded as many as 116 runs in the last eleven overs from the time India’s batting Power Play ended.India made a record highest total against OZ and the highest by any team when batting first against them.

Ricky Ponting played well Dhoni brought pacer,Ishant the very first ball he bowled reared up at Watson, and was fended off the face to Tendulkar at slip.

With Watson wicket and angry words were exchanged. Test slipped from oz hand potentially blow came from the other end, as Praveen nipped one back to strike Ponting right in front. With wickets tumbling at 45 for 3, Australia were on the dire straits.

Hussey tried to revive the innings somewhat with three consecutive fours through the off side when Harbhajan was introduced. Aussie could not keep maintain average run rate and fell behind the schedule as at the Cameron White’s stop-start innings ended with a tame clip to midwicket.

At this juncture the scoring rate was on its way towards 10 an over. Ravindra Jadeja who bowled exceedingly to the wicket then bowled Hussey through big gap thus bringing the Oz down in the contest to score uphil task of reaching the target. Watson19,Ponting 12, Hussey 53,Voges 36, March and Jonson 21 each to White 23, kept the crowd entertaining, Hauritz remained not out with total 30 added to their team total of 255 runs,thus short of 99 runs.