Showing posts with label Dhoni. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dhoni. Show all posts

Monday, July 21, 2014

Picturesque Super Seven By Ishant Sharma At Lords: India Vs England: Test 2: India Won by 95 Runs

Player of the match - Ishant Sharma (India)

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Ishant Sharma had a super bowling in the second innings of England's batting at the Mecca of Cricket - Lords. England was given a target of 319 runs to win. His first victim was Ian Bell who was clean bowled at his individual score of 1 staying only for 4 balls. Team Score: 71-3. Over: 30th.

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His second victim was Alistair Cook caught by Captain & Wicket Keeper M S Dhoni on his individual score of 22 made of 93 balls with 2 fours. Team's score: 72-4, Over: 32nd

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Next to be grabbed by Ishant was Moeen Ali who got out at his individual score of 39 made of 147 balls with 5 fours. He was caught by Cheteshwar Pujara. Team Score: 173-5, Over: 76th

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Ishant's 4th wicket was Matt Prior who was caught by Murali Vijay on his score of 12 made in 11 balls with 2 fours. Team Score: 198-6, Over: 80th.

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Ben Stokes was the 5th victim of the innings who got caught out by Pujara without opening his account. Team Score: 201-7; Over: 82nd.

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Within a gap of 3 balls in the same over Joe Root, who was well settled and was playing at 66 made in 146 balls with 7 fours, got caught out by Binny. Team Score: 201-8, Over: 82nd. This was Ishant's 6th pick of the innings.

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The last victim of Ishant Sharma was Stuart Broad. Enough damage had been done by now and India's victory was just 2 wickets far. Broad was caught behind the wickets by Dhoni. He made 8 runs of 14 balls with 1 four. Team Score: 216-9. Over: 86th. 

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Sunday, April 06, 2014

T20 World Cup: 10 Ball Ki Keemat Tum Kya Jaano Yuvraj Babu: Another Blunder From Dhoni To Surrender Against SL

The finals between Sri Lanka and India of T20 World Cup played at Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh,  never seemed to be a serious attempt from Indian side. Yuvraj should not have experimented in finals looking at his consistently failing innings and more so the confidence with which he is playing these days. Even if he was taken the next blunder that Dhoni did was to send Yuvraj at second down after Rohit Sharma departed in the 11th over. From 11th to 19th over, as long as Yuvraj was there at crease with Virat Kohli, it was the most devastating spell of runs scored by Indian batsmen.

Yuvraj was clearly failing to play against Sri Lankan bowlers. out of 21 balls almost 10 balls were wasted by him by either trying to hook the ball and failing or defending himself as if a test match was being played. Instead he should have performed a solider's attempt to go for a suicidal shot as early as possible to get out of the fear he was having on the field.

The onus in any case goes to Dhoni for showing over confidence on Yuvraj and sending him on 2 down. Instead he should have sent Raina, Ashwin and Jadeja before Yuvraj and himself. Probably the score would have been a little respectable and at a level to provide a little bit of confidence to the Indian bowlers.

Monday, October 14, 2013

The First Match Stolen By Australia With Excellent Batting

It was a day night match on a batting friendly newly built Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune. Australia team is in India for a 6 ODIs series. The second match is Jaipur. Rest four matches will be played at Mohali, Ranchi, Cuttack and Nagpur respectively.

It was a nice decision taken by Australian Captain George Bailey to opt for batting after winning the toss. And he played a captain's knock by making brilliant 85 runs in 82 balls. Indian bowling was totally ineffective against Australian batsmen throughout. Only two bowlers who were able to control run rate were Jadeja and Ashwin and to some extent non regular Yuvraj and the young pacer Bhuvaneshwar Kumar.

Overall Australia was in total  command in all three areas - batting, bowling and fielding. Australia put a solid challenge of 305 runs for India to win that seemed to be an uphill task once the opener Shikhar Dhwan and middle order batsmen Yuvraj Singh, Dhoni and Jedeja could not prove themselves.