Cricket Update: India vs. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754, tri-series, 6th ODI, Dambulla, Aug 25, 2010- Sehwag’s Blitzkrieg Leads the Way
India’s swashbuckling opening batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Virender-Sehwag-c95429 scored a belligerent hundred to take his team to a fighting total in the last league match of the tri-series one day tournament against New Zealand, taking place at the Rangiri International Stadium in Dambulla.
India won the toss and elected to bat first in the do-or-die encounter that is set to decide who amongst the two teams will play hosts, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 in the final of the series.
The Indians were rocked early in their batting effort when Danesh Karthik, the opening batsman fell to Kyle Mills on the third ball of the match; he was snapped by wicket-keeper Hopkins behind the stumps.
The Indians were jolted further when Verat Kohli continued his lean trot in the series edging behind to Hopkins to pacer Tim Southee.
It was truly Sehwag’s show, as the rest of the batting line-up found the going tough yet the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Delhi-c780 dasher once again demonstrated that he is easily one of the most destructive batsmen in modern cricket today. He kept toying with the bowling striking boundaries with ease throughout his knock.
The Black Caps kept chipping away with wickets on the other hand, as Yuvraj Singh and Suresh Raina also fell for single figure scores leaving the men in blue tottering at 66/4 in 13 overs.
The top four batsmen sans Sehwag contributed a total of 15 runs to the score, by the time Raina fell to Southee for 1 run.
Sehwag finally found support in captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028, who stayed with him at one end as the right-hander blazed to another hundred.
He was eventually dismissed by Nathan McCullum after scoring 110 runs off 93 balls, his innings included 16 fours and one six.
India stuttered further when Dhoni and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Taylor-c92915 stationed in the slips.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ashish-Nehra-c46293 was the next to go, as he failed to score of 12 balls before popping a return a return catch to Nathan McCullum.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Praveen-Kumar-c82600 also failed to get going either striking one four in his 6 run knock off 12 balls.
The last wicket pair of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mills-c76321 for 7 runs.
The Indians failed to play out their quota of overs; however, they have succeeded in posting a challenging total on a tricky Dambulla track.
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