Saturday, July 21, 2018

India lose, Australia (Gavask)are Del(h)ighted

India made a couple of changes to the eleven that played their last match. Roger Binny and Manoj Prabhakar made way for Kapil Dev’s return and Ashok Patel's One-day International debut. It was a 48-overs-a-side match.

Australia made five changes to the eleven that last played the Indians. Trevor Chappell, David Hookes, Rod Marsh, Ken MacLeay and Jeff Thomson made way for Wessels, Kim Hughes (who led them), Wayne Phillips, Carl Rackemann and John Maguire.

On winning the toss, Hughes chose to bat. Graeme Wood, who faced four balls, did not open his account. He was caught by Surinder Khanna. Chetan Sharma broke the 14-run stand. Hughes scored 72. His 93-ball innings included 10 boundaries. He was caught by Ghulam Parkar. Patel broke the 128-run partnership.

Graham Yallop scored 22. His 27-ball innings included a couple of boundaries. He was stumped by Khanna. Kirti Azad broke the 58-run stand. Allan Border, who faced three balls, failed to get off the mark. He was stumped by Khanna. Azad broke the fourth-wicket partnership, which was worth a blob.

The fifth-wicket stand was worth four. Phillips, who faced three balls, scored a run. He was run out. Tom Hogan scored six. His eight-ball innings included a boundary. Madan Lal trapped him leg before wicket, breaking the nine-run stand.

Lawson, who scored a couple (Ge)off 10 balls, was caught by Dilip Vengsarkar. Dev broke the three-run stand. Wessels, the (Ke)pl(ay)er of the match, scored 107. His 133-ball innings included 13 boundaries. He was caught by Parkar. Lal broke the two-run stand.

Rodney Hogg, who faced eight balls, did not get off the mark. He was unbeaten. The ninth-wicket partnership was worth just a couple. Rackemann, who faced eight balls, scored two. He was run out.

India conceded eight extras. Australia scored 220 for the loss of nine wickets off 48 overs. Ravi Shastri bowled three wicketless overs, conceding 23. Sharma and Dev bowled nine overs apiece, picking up a wicket each. While the former conceded 49, the latter, whose spell included a maiden, conceded 43.

Patel bowled 10 overs, including a couple of maidens. He conceded 27 and picked up a wicket. Lal bowled seven overs, including a couple of maidens. He conceded 23. He picked up a couple of wickets, as did Azad, who bowled 10 overs, including a maiden. He conceded 48.

Khanna scored 13. His 20-ball innings included a couple of boundaries. He was caught by Phillips. Rackemann broke the 17-run stand. Parkar, who faced 25 balls, scored 16. His innings included three boundaries. He was caught by Lawson. Rackemann broke the 27-run stand.

Sandeep Patil scored 18. His 22-ball innings included four boundaries. Hogg trapped him leg before wicket, breaking the 32-run partnership. Vengsarkar scored 33. His 86-ball innings included three boundaries. He was caught by Yallop. Maguire broke the 20-run stand.

Azad, who faced a couple of balls, failed to get off the mark. He was caught by Phillips. Maguire broke the one-run stand. Sunil Gavaskar, India’s skipper, scored 25 off 54 balls. He was caught by Wood. Rackemann broke the 51-run partnership.

Dev scored 39. His 47-ball innings included six boundaries. Hogan broke the seventh-wicket stand, which was worth a dozen. Shastri, who faced 17 balls, scored five. He was stumped by Phillips. Hogan broke the one-run stand.

Lal, who faced eight balls, scored a run. He was caught by Lawson. Rackemann broke the 11-run stand. Sharma, who faced eight balls, scored nine. His innings included a boundary. He was unbeaten. The tenth-wicket pair didn’t get off the mark. Patel, who faced three balls, didn’t open his account. He was caught by Phillips off the bowling of Hogan.

Australia conceded nine extras. India, who were dismissed for 172 off 40.5 overs, lost by 48 runs. Lawson, who bowled five wicketless overs, conceded 23. Hogg bowled six overs, including a maiden. He conceded 21 and picked up a wicket.

Maguire bowled 10 overs, including a maiden. He conceded 41 and picked up a couple of wickets. Hogan bowled 9.5 overs, including a maiden. He conceded 44 and picked up three wickets.

Rackemann bowled 10 overs, including a maiden. He conceded 41 and picked up four scalps.

The Aussies led the five-match series 1-0.





  




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