Placid India fail to hold edge over South Africa
Posted on Mar 29, 2008 at 09:53 | Updated Mar 29, 2008 at 18:45
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Chennai: When time is of the essence, things need to be done quickly. For a side that recovered so well from a 540-run deficit, India should have really pressed the advantage given to them by Virender Sehwag. But that was not to be.
The South Africans, under no real pressure, finished the fourth day of the first Test at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium here at 131 for one in reply to India’s 627. Neil McKenzie was unbeaten on 59 while Hashim Amla was on 35.
Rahul Dravid got a hundred, and more. He also became the sixth in cricket history and the third Indian to cross 10,000 runs. But while that looks great for the records, his progress on Saturday couldn’t really be termed as being in tune with the team ambition, or at least, what team ambition should have been.
Sehwag wasn’t as fluent on Saturday morning as he was on Friday, but at least some of it had to do with Dravid hogging the strike, without actually rattling the scoreboard. One look at some figures could put this in perspective – Sehwag reached 300 off 278 balls, while Dravid reached a third of that in 272 balls. The only way to get the South Africans under pressure was to score quickly, once Sehwag had departed, it should have fallen on Dravid to get things going.
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Posted By such
Guys..Plz stop this rubbish..Hes has probably the most selfless player in world cricket...Hes always played for the team..Hes slow but
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Posted By Prince
india had a chance to win but it was gone when dravid scored his super slow hundred and the middle
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Posted By Harry Davis
Whose 100 is important to india ? Forget dravid ... what others were doing in other end ? !! and
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Posted By vinod
Today, Dravid was playing to cement his place in the team. It was very selfish of him to play the
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Posted By LVISS
THE MOMENT SEHWAG WAS OUT IT WAS CLEAR THAT THE MATCH WAS HEADING FOR A DRAW. SINCE THE TEST SERIES
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