India beat West Indies in first ODI
Posted on Jan 21, 2007 at 09:03 | Updated Jan 22, 2007 at 10:43
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New Delhi: Team India have finally managed to get a One-Day win under their belt but not before a nail biting finish against West Indies in the first ODI at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur on Sunday.
Giving a sparkling display of attacking batting, the host batsmen piled on a massive 338/3 in their 50 over but the West Indians were not to be cowed down as they went about chasing the target in trademark Caribbean style spanking the ball all around park.
However, in the end the visitors, despite man of the match Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s brilliant unbeaten 149 (16x4, 3x6) off 136 balls, fell short of the target to give the hosts victory by 14 runs to trail the four-match ODI series 0-1.
The Indian total was built around the good work by led by comeback man Sourav Ganguly who played a responsible knock of 98 ((11x4, 3x6) off 109 balls while
Ganguly, back in the One-Day squad after nearly a year, played an innings that showed his full array of shots while his opening partner Gautam Gambhir came up with a well-made 69 off 75 balls as India took the early honours.
The wicket was tailor-made for batting with the host batsmen hitting 21 fours and 10 sixes while the visitors sent the ball to the boundary 35 times and six times over the boundary.
Most of the batsmen made full use of the ideal wicket conditions as the bowlers were made to look pedestrian.
However, both Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara missed the party though they showed glimpses of their talent scoring 31 each.
West Indies began the chase with Chris Gayle and Chanderpaul with the latter starting the scoring with two consecutive fours off S Sreesanth.
Sreesanth was again at the receiving end with Gayle being grassed by Sachin Tendulkar at the first slip. The batsman was on 11 and he celebrated the reprieve by sending the ball out of the ground for three consecutive fours in the same over.
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Posted By subu
Class speaks and so does your language...Inspite of the article not containing anything about the efforts of Dravids\''s and Dhoni\''s
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Posted By suman
BCM check the statistics before u say that dravid is not fit in odi for poor strike rate only 3
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Posted By raj
please do not praise too much about indian team & Ganguly[hope every one remembers what happened after first test at
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Posted By w.ad
insane in the name wisdom
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Posted By BCM
Yeah! Ganguly faught for Dravid\''s place in ODI Team. If u really followed cricket, u should be knowing that. A
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