Thursday, October 25, 2018

India show (Azharudd)in‘ten’t and WIn

India made just one change to their playing eleven – Subroto Banerjee made way for Narendra Hirwani. The West Indies made no changes to the eleven that last played the Indians. On winning the toss, Mohammad Azharuddin, India’s skipper, chose to bat.

Ravi Shastri, who faced 22 balls, scored four. He was caught by David Williams. Curtly Ambrose broke the 27-run stand. Krishnamachari Srikkanth, the player of the match, scored 82. His 84-ball innings included 10 balls and the only six of the innings. He was stumped by Williams. Carl Hooper broke the 96-run stand.

Sanjay Manjrekar, whose 98-ball innings included a boundary, scored 55. He was caught by Philo Wallace. Keith broke the 65-run pArt(hurto)nership. Tendulkar, whose 57-ball (Sach)innings included a couple of boundaries, scored 48. He was caught by Arthurton, who broke the 22-run stand.

Azharuddin, who faced 28 balls, scored 31. He was unbeaten, as Kapil Dev, who scored 21. His 19-ball innings included a boundary. The West Indians conceded 21 extras. India scored 262 for the loss of four wickets off 50 overs.

Patrick Patterson, who bowled half-a-dozen wicketless overs, conceded 47. Malcolm Marshall and Anderson Cummins bowled 10 wicketless overs each. While the former conceded 59, the latter conceded 41.

Hooper and Ambrose bowled 10 overs each, picking up a wicket apiece. While the former conceded 52, the latter, whose spell included a maiden, conceded 35. Arthurton, who bowled four overs, conceded 23. He picked up a couple of scalps.

Wallace, whose 96-ball innings included four boundaries and a six, scored 52. He was caught by Javagal Srinath. Hirwani broke the 124-run stand. The second-wicket pair put on just three. Richie Richardson, the West Indies’ skipper, had no reason to be in seventh heaven – he scored just a couple, and was run out.

Brian Lara, whose run-a-ball innings included a boundary, scored 29. He was trapped leg before wicket by Shastri, who broke the 57-run stand. Hooper, who faced 19 balls, scored a dozen. He was caught by Manjrekar. Dev broke the 21-run stand.

Desmond Haynes, whose 116-ball innings included half-a-dozen boundaries and a six, scored 89. He was caught by Shastri. Srinath broke the one-run stand. Arthurton, who faced half-a-dozen balls, scored five. He was caught by Amre. Dev broke the sixth-wicket stand, which was worth six.

Williams, who faced four balls, scored three. He was caught by Manoj, who broke the eight-run P(rabhak)artnership. Marshall, whose 13-ball innings included a couple of boundaries, scored 17. He was trapped leg before wicket by Srinath, who broke the 23-run stand.

Ambrose, who faced 11 balls, scored 10. Dev broke the eight-run stand. Cummins, whose five-ball innings included a boundary, wasn’t in seventh heaven. Dev broke the one-run stand. Patterson, who faced a ball, scored a run. He was unbeaten.

India conceded 25 extras. The West Indies, who were dismissed for 252 off 50 overs, lost by 10 runs. Tendulkar, who bowled a couple of wicketless overs, conceded 10. The Madhya Pradesh leg-spinner, who bowled (Hirwa)nine overs, conceded 54. He picked up a wicket.

Prabhakar bowled nine overs, including a maiden. He conceded 42, picking up a wicket. Shastri, who bowled 10 overs, conceded 45. He picked up a wicket. Srinath, who bowled 10 overs, conceded 35. He picked up a couple of wickets. Dev bowled 10 overs, including a maiden. He conceded 54, picking up four scalps.  



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