Saturday, July 28, 2018

India beat England; Devictory's convincing

India made a couple of changes to the eleven that played their last One-day International – Kirti Azad and Madan Lal were reP(ati)laced by Sandeep and Roger Binny. England made five changes to the eleven that last played the Indians – Martyn Moxon, Vic Marks, Phil Edmonds, Neil Foster and Norman Cowans made way for Graham Gooch, Derek Pringle, John Emburey, Graham Dilley and Les Taylor.

It was the first of a Kapil of 55-overs matches, and Dev, India’s skipper, inserted the hosts on winning the toss. Gooch scored 30. His 52-ball innings included a boundary and a six. He was caught by Mohammad Azharuddin. Chetan Sharma broke the 54-run stand. The second-wicket stand was worth 13. Graeme Fowler scored 20. His 77-ball innings included a boundary. He was run out.

The third-wicket pair failed to get off the mark. Gower, England’s captain, D(av)idn’t open his account. He was caught by Dev off the bowling of Ravi Shastri. Allan Lamb, who faced seven balls, failed to get off the mark. He was caught by Dev. Maninder Singh broke the three-run stand.

Mike Gatting scored 27. His 58-ball innings included a boundary. He was caught by Dev. Shastri broke the fifth-wicket partnership, which was worth 32. Paul Downton, who faced 17 balls, scored four. He was caught by Azharuddin. Binny broke the 13-run stand. Pringle scored 28. His 66-ball innings included a boundary. He was caught by Azharuddin. Sharma broke the 16-run stand.

Richard Ellison faced 15 balls, scoring 10. He was caught by Binny, who broke the seven-run partnership. Dilley, who faced a dozen balls, scored half-a-dozen. He was caught by Chandrakant Pandit. Sharma broke the 13-run stand. The last-wicket partnership was worth 11. Emburey scored 20. His 22-ball innings included a couple of boundaries. He was run out. Taylor, who faced six balls, scored a run. He was unbeaten.

The Indians conceded 16 extras. England were dismissed for 162 off 55 overs. Each of the bowlers bowled 11 overs. Dev, whose spell included a maiden, was wicketless. He conceded 32. Maninder, whose spell included a maiden, conceded 31. He picked up a wicket. 

Binny and Shastri picked up a couple of wickets apiece. While the former, whose spell included a couple of maidens, conceded 38, the latter conceded 25. Sharma, whose spell included a couple of maidens, conceded 25. He picked up three scalps.

The Indian openers didn’t get off the mark. Krishnamachari Srikkanth, who faced a ball, didn’t open his account. He was caught by Downton off the bowling of Dilley. Sunil Gavaskar scored 65. His 132-ball innings included five boundaries. He was unbeaten, as was Azharuddin, the player of the match. He scored 83. His 154-ball innings included eight boundaries.

England conceded 15 extras. India scored 163 for the loss of one wicket off 47.2 overs, winning by nine wickets with 46 balls to spare. Taylor bowled seven wicketless overs, included a maiden. He conceded 30. Pringle bowled 8.2 wicketless overs, including four maidens. He conceded 20. Ellison, who bowled 10 wicketless overs, including a maiden. He conceded 36.

Emburey and Dilley bowled 11 overs apiece. While the former, whose spell included a couple of maidens, conceded 15, the latter, who conceded 53, picked up the only wicket that fell.

India led the series 1-0.






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