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Apr11

Chanderpaul clinches a last ball cliffhanger

by wasim on April 11th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
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Not many people can accomplish what Chanderpaul  did when he carried West Indies to a thrilling final-ball one-wicket win in the first one-day international in Port of Spain after being left needing 10 off two deliveries. The last over was being bowled by Vaas one of the games most experienced bowlers at death, 13 runs were required from the last over and only three came of the first four balls with two balls remaining and 10 runs required he responded with a straight drive before flicking a Chaminda Vaas full toss over deep midwicket to send the Trinidad crowd into wild celebrations.

Vaas who can bowl swinging yorkers at will was for some reason clearly struggling, he kept on bowling low full tosses and finally paid the price the memory of this match will get etched in his mind for a long time to come.

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Apr11

Relying on conditions

by wasim on April 11th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
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In three tests India has prepared three different pitches in an effort to overcome the South Africans, in the first test a true flat track was prepared, clearly India wanted to neutralize the threat of pace bowling posed by the SA pace battery, but they also they over estimated their own bowling strength as a result we saw the match ending in a dull draw.

In the second match the Indians got carried away by the batting display of their team on a placid track in the first test and dared to make a fast bouncy track for the second test, the South Africans were delighted and made full use of the conditions and won the match in just three days again the Indian management over estimated their own bowling.

In the third test India has prepared a crumbling track with Sharp turn and a low bounce I reckon again they have overestimated their spin bowlers in the absence of Kumble and under estimated the capability of South African to play Spin. South Africa were all out for 265 at the end of the first days play, they have done fairly well but must be disappointed with themselves for not capitalizing on a wonderful start, the fate of this match might get decided tommorrow and may totally depend on how India bats on this pitch, finally in the series they have got a wicket which can play to their strength but given the raw pace of the South African bowlers a slow wicket might not come in their way. 

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Apr11

Pakistan Wins 8th ODI in a row

by wasim on April 11th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
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Pakistan have beaten Bangladesh by 7 wickets in a rain curtailed match, Bangladesh scored 226 in 48.2 overs when rain stopped the match a revised target of 158 in 25 overs was given to Pakistan which made the match a bit more interesting as the required RR climbed to 6.34 from the beginning, Salman Butt (76) and Nasir Jamshed (21) gave their team a blazing start they scored 39 of the first four overs which forced Ashraful to bring in  Shakabul Hassan and Abdur Razzak earlier on in the Innings, the spinners did a fine Job for their captain and dried up the boundaries and Nasir Jamshed who was scoring at will against the pacers struggled against the spinners and lost his wicket trying to heave Shakab over the Midwicket boundary and was clean bowled.

Younis scored a quick 13 which included a massive six of Mahmudullah but threw away his wicket when he moved outside the offstump too early and completely exposed his stumps to Reza who bowled a well directed ball on the leg stump to clean him up.

Yousuf was the next man in, who is in sublime form, from the very first ball he played his strokes all over the ground  and did not wasted any ball he kept on placing the ball between the gaps with the use of his wrists and kept the score board ticking, he also struck some powerful boundaries in his cameo of 32 and also became the second Pakistani batsman after Inzamam to cross 9000 runs in ODis.

Tamim Iqbal scored an aggresive 60 but the wickets kept on falling on the other end, Mahmudullah tried to rebuild the innings he scored 58* the rest of the Bangladesh committed the same mistakes as they did in the first match Afridi was the most successful bowler for Pakistan who took 3/33, Umar Gul was agin the most expensive he is struggling with his rythm and line & length, I think in the next match he should be rested and Sohail Khan should be played in his place.

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