Hi Cricket Lovers
Indian team started on a good note till the 15th Over of the first ODI at the MCG carrying on their form of series levelling win in the 2nd T20 Internationals but then the bowlers started bowling jaded and started leaking runs to the Hussey brothers. They gave away nearly an average of 10 runs per over.
It seemed like the bad form of the Indian team will continue from the 4-0 whitewash it suffered in the Test Series when the batting unit collapsed and was not able to chase down 216 in 32 overs. It all turned around when India faced Sri lanka and with the bowlers restricting the Sri lankan team to a modest total the Indian team chased the score down rather easily with 20 balls to spare. Ashwin deservedly won the Man of the Match as he was good with both bat and ball, While he was able to garner turn and bounce on the Perth wicket scalping 3 Sri lankans and also scored 30 runs to guide India through to victory.
The Next match between Srilanka and Australia was a tense affair with Australia managing to keep there nerves in the final stages of the match and scraping through a 5 run win by taking the wicket of the lone ranger Angelo Mathews who single handedly took Sri lanka so close to the target of 231 which seemed a modest one. If you thought this match was thrilling then the next match between India and Aussie was even more pulsating. In a high scoring match it was Captain cool MS Dhoni who despite his slow start was able to gather momentum and hit his only boundary which was a huge six over long on when his team needed most and scoring 13 runs of the last over to win the match with 2 balls to spare. Gambhir won the Man of the match for his cool and calm 92 announcing that he is back in form.
If you all thought this was good enough you were treated with another humdinger where India and Sri lanka met at Adelaide and the match ended in a Tie with MS Dhoni again coming to the rescue of the Indian team by scoring 3 runs of the last ball to finish off the match with no side feeling a bit out of luck. MS Dhoni was given the man of the match for innings which showed once again how cool he is. Both teams will be happy with a tie with India rising to be at par with the Aussies on the points table just lagging behind on net runrate. Till now this CB series has got back to us that even ODIs can be exciting and it might help reviving the fans back to there old watching ways where they keep filling the stadium in match of such high quality.
Hope the thrill continues and wish that the Sri lankans also make it hard for the Aussies to remain on top of the table. If that happens i guess it will augur well for the competition as we are only 1/3rd way through this series with 10 more matches to come.
Will be back with more updates.
Till then Bye
Indian team started on a good note till the 15th Over of the first ODI at the MCG carrying on their form of series levelling win in the 2nd T20 Internationals but then the bowlers started bowling jaded and started leaking runs to the Hussey brothers. They gave away nearly an average of 10 runs per over.
It seemed like the bad form of the Indian team will continue from the 4-0 whitewash it suffered in the Test Series when the batting unit collapsed and was not able to chase down 216 in 32 overs. It all turned around when India faced Sri lanka and with the bowlers restricting the Sri lankan team to a modest total the Indian team chased the score down rather easily with 20 balls to spare. Ashwin deservedly won the Man of the Match as he was good with both bat and ball, While he was able to garner turn and bounce on the Perth wicket scalping 3 Sri lankans and also scored 30 runs to guide India through to victory.
The Next match between Srilanka and Australia was a tense affair with Australia managing to keep there nerves in the final stages of the match and scraping through a 5 run win by taking the wicket of the lone ranger Angelo Mathews who single handedly took Sri lanka so close to the target of 231 which seemed a modest one. If you thought this match was thrilling then the next match between India and Aussie was even more pulsating. In a high scoring match it was Captain cool MS Dhoni who despite his slow start was able to gather momentum and hit his only boundary which was a huge six over long on when his team needed most and scoring 13 runs of the last over to win the match with 2 balls to spare. Gambhir won the Man of the match for his cool and calm 92 announcing that he is back in form.
If you all thought this was good enough you were treated with another humdinger where India and Sri lanka met at Adelaide and the match ended in a Tie with MS Dhoni again coming to the rescue of the Indian team by scoring 3 runs of the last ball to finish off the match with no side feeling a bit out of luck. MS Dhoni was given the man of the match for innings which showed once again how cool he is. Both teams will be happy with a tie with India rising to be at par with the Aussies on the points table just lagging behind on net runrate. Till now this CB series has got back to us that even ODIs can be exciting and it might help reviving the fans back to there old watching ways where they keep filling the stadium in match of such high quality.
Hope the thrill continues and wish that the Sri lankans also make it hard for the Aussies to remain on top of the table. If that happens i guess it will augur well for the competition as we are only 1/3rd way through this series with 10 more matches to come.
Will be back with more updates.
Till then Bye
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