Wednesday, November 28, 2018

India notch up A(zharuddi)nother (Ki)win

India made one change to their playing eleven – Sanjay Manjrekar made way for Navjot Singh Sidhu. New Zealand made one change to theirs as well – Matthew Hart made way for Dion Nash. Ken Rutherford, New Zealand’s skipper, won the toss, inserting the visitors.

Tendulkar, whose 75-ball (Sach)innings included nine boundaries, scored 63. He was trapped leg before wicket by Gavin Larsen, who broke the 105-run stand. Ajay Jadeja, whose 90-ball innings included a couple of boundaries and a six, scored 56. Danny Morrison broke the 49-run stand.

Sidhu, whose 77-ball innings included three boundaries and a six, scored 71. He was unbeaten. Vinod Kambli, who faced 33 balls, scored 23. He was caught by Chris Pringle. Nash broke the 45-run stand.

Mohammad Azharuddin, India’s skipper, scored 24. His 20-ball innings included three boundaries. Morrison broke the 38-run stand. Kapil Dev faced four balls, scoring as many. He was caught by Shane Thomson. Pringle broke the 11-run stand. Nayan Mongia, who faced three balls, scored as many. He was unbeaten.

New Zealand conceded 11 extras. India scored 255 for the loss of five wickets off 50 overs. Chris Harris bowled five overs, conceding 30. He was wicketless, as was Thomson, who bowled nine wicketless overs, conceding 39.

Pringle bowled seven overs, conceding 36. He picked up a wicket, as did Nash, who bowled nine overs, conceding 55. Larsen, who bowled 10 overs, conceded 33. He picked up a wicket. Morrison, who bowled 10 overs, conceded 57. He picked up a couple of scalps.

Bryan Young, who faced 11 balls, scored just a couple. Javagal Srinath broke the five-run stand. Harris, whose 52-ball innings included seven boundaries, scored 44. He was caught by Jadeja. Anil Kumble, the player of the match, broke the 60-run stand.

Blair Hartland, whose 45-ball innings included a couple of boundaries, scored 21. He was stumped by Mongia. Kumble broke the five-run stand. The fourth-wicket pair put on half-a-dozen. Stephen Fleming, who faced eight balls, scored a couple. He was run out.

Rutherford, whose 41-ball innings included a couple of boundaries, scored 35. He was caught by Dev. Srinath broke the 55-run stand. Thomson, whose 61-ball innings included four boundaries and the only six of the innings, scored 60. He was stumped by Mongia. Kumble broke the 85-run stand.

Larsen, who faced five balls, scored a couple. Srinath broke the five-run stand. Adam Parore, whose 61-ball innings included a boundary, scored 47. Kumble broke the 10-run stand. Nash, who faced eight balls, scored half-a-dozen. He was caught by Dev. Kumble broke the one-run stand.

Pringle, who faced half-a-dozen balls, scored eight. He was unbeaten, as was Morrison, who faced three balls, scoring four. India conceded a dozen extras. New Zealand, who scored 243 for the loss of nine wickets off 50 overs, lost by 12 runs.

Tendulkar, who bowled a couple of wicketless overs, conceded a dozen. Jadeja and Rajesh Chauhan bowled five wicketless overs each. While the former conceded 35, the latter conceded 30.

Dev bowled eight wicketless overs, conceding 40. Salil Ankola, who bowled 10 wicketless overs, conceded 55. The Karnataka pacer bowled 10 overs, including three maidens. He conceded (Srina)thirty-one, picking up three wickets. Kumble bowled 10 overs, conceding 33. He picked up five scalps.

India led the four-match series 2-1. 

  





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