Bruised and battered team http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 arrives home - Cricket News Update
After a three-month long tour of Australia, the bruised and battered Indian team, sans http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Parthiv-Patel-c2159, reached home on Sunday, March 04, 2012.
While most of the players arrived at the IGI airport, New Delhi on Sunday morning from Brisbane via http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820, the night before.
Those who reached http://www.senore.com/Cricket/R-Ashwin-c2228 was the only player to land at
Chennai a day earlier.
Irfan Pathan and Parthiv Patel will leave for home on Sunday, March 4, 2012.
The Men in Blue had played their last league match of the triangular Commonwealth Bank series but stayed in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 match, where a Lankan loss could have taken them to the series finals. But the
Islanders held their nerves and emerged victorious in the match, to end the hopes of Dhoni and his Men in Blue of reaching the finals.
MS Dhoni led India side looked completely out of sorts in all three formats of the game during their three-month long stay Down Under. The former world number Test side, kick started their tour with a humiliating 4-0 Test series whitewash at the hands of
Australia, their second successive away Test series whitewash.
The Men in Blue tried to regain a bit of lost pride by drawing the two-match T20 series 1-1. But it was short-lived, as the reigning world champions were once again exposed in the triangular one-day series, which also featured hosts and their Asian rivals
Sri Lanka. Though they signed off the tour with an exhilarating bonus-point win over Sri Lanka chasing down a mammoth target of 321 runs with more than 13 overs to spare, but it was not enough to earn them a berth in the finals and the team returned home.
India’s next assignment is the quadrangular Asia Cup tournament commencing in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747 on March 11.
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