Sunday, December 30, 2018

India WIn A(zharuddi)nother summit clash

India made just one Ch(et)ange to their playing eleven – Sharma made way for Atul Bedade. The West Indies made a couple of changes to theirs – Kenny Benjamin and Shivnarine Chanderpaul made way for Brian Lara and Rajindra Dhanraj. Courtney Walsh, the latter’s skipper, won the toss, inserting the hosts.

Tendulkar – the player of the match as well as the player of the series – scored 66. His 68-ball (Sach)innings included eight boundaries. He was caught by Stuart Williams. Cameron Cuffy broke the 108-run stand. Ajay Jadeja, whose 100-ball innings included four boundaries and a six, scored 58. He was caught by Lara. Dhanraj broke the 39-run stand.

Navjot Singh Sidhu, whose 51-ball innings included a six, scored 28. He was caught by Jimmy Adams. Anderson Cummins broke the 28-run stand. Mohammad Azharuddin, India’s skipper, scored 41. His 38-ball innings included three boundaries. He was caught by Roland Holder. Carl Hooper broke the 62-run stand.

Vinod Kambli, whose 40-ball innings included four boundaries and a couple of sixes, scored 58. He was unbeaten. Bedade, who faced five balls, scored three. He was caught by Keith Arthurton. Dhanraj broke the 29-run stand.

Vijay Yadav, who faced a ball, did not get off the mark. He was trapped leg before wicket by Walsh, who broke the one-run stand. Anil Kumble, who faced a couple of balls, scored a run. He was unbeaten.

The West Indies scored 19 extras. India scored 274 for the loss of six wickets off 50 overs. All the five bowlers bowled 10 overs apiece. Walsh, Cummins, Cuffy (whose spell included a maiden) and Hooper picked up a scalp each. They conceded 46, 50, 53 and 55, respectively. Dhanraj, who bowled 10 overs, conceded 55. He picked up a couple of scalps.

Williams, whose (Srina)thirty-four-ball innings included half-a-dozen boundaries, scored 29. He was caught by Azharuddin. Javagal broke the 46-run stand. Lara, who faced 11 balls, scored just a run. Venkatesh Prasad broke the three-run stand. The third-wicket pair put on 19. Phil Simmons, whose 53-ball innings included a couple of boundaries, scored 21. He was run out.

Hooper, whose 43-ball innings included a couple of boundaries, scored 30. He was caught by Azharuddin. Venkatapathy Raju broke the 33-run stand. Holder, who faced nine balls, scored five. He was caught by Jadeja. Tendulkar broke the 15-run stand. Adams, who faced five balls, scored just a run. He was caught by Kumble. Jadeja broke the five-run stand.

Arthurton, whose 59-ball innings included three boundaries, scored 42. Raju broke the 41-run stand. Cummins, whose 36-ball innings included a boundary and a six, scored 21. Kumble broke the 20-run stand.

Walsh, whose 14-ball innings included a boundary and three sixes, scored 30. He was caught by Tendulkar. Raju broke the 20-run stand. Dhanraj, who bowled a couple of balls, didn’t open his account. He was unbeaten. The tenth-wicket pair didn’t get off the mark. Cuffy, who faced a ball, didn’t open his account. He was caught by Kumble off the bowling of Raju.

India conceded 22 extras. The West Indies, who were dismissed for 202 off 44 overs, lost by 72 runs. Jadeja, who bowled five overs, conceded 18. He picked up a wicket. Kumble, Srinath and Prasad (whose spell included three maidens) bowled seven overs each, picking up a wicket apiece. They conceded 27, 25 and 23, respectively.

Tendulkar bowled eight overs, including a couple of maidens. He conceded 35, picking up a wicket. Raju, who bowled 10 overs, conceded 58. He picked up four scalps.

The Indians won the 1994/95 Wills World Series.






















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