India beat Netherlands by 5 wickets at Delhi to attain top position in Group B table
India has became the first team to enter the quarter finals of the ICC World Cup, 2011 after beating the Netherlands convincingly at the Feroz Shah Kotla Ground in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Delhi-c780. They had a good start to their innings as the openers added together a total of 56
runs before the first wicket fell in the 16th over. Eric Szwarczynski made a total of 28 runs before he was clean bowled by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Piyush-c82317 Chawla.
Just when another 8 runs were added to the scoreboard, another Dutch wicket fell. This time it was http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Wesley-Barresi-c96487, who contributed 26 precious runs to the Dutch total before he was given out LBW to Yuvraj Singh.
The best Dutch batsmen with a great average, Ryan Ten Doeschate could not rise up to the occasion after his heroic century against England earlier in the tournament and became another victim to Yuvraj which left Netherlands at 99 for 3 in 28.2 overs.
The key wicket of Alexei Kervezee fell for 11 runs, off Chawla. To make matter worse for Netherlands, Zaheer Khan chipped in one more Dutch wicket. This time it was Bas Zuiderent who was given out LBW to Khan for a duck which pushed Netherlands in great
trouble at 101 for 5 in 30.6 overs.
A run out and some great bowling display by Zaheer Khan dismantled the Netherlands tale with some resistant scores by Peter Borren who made 38 runs and Mudassar Bukhari who contributed 21 precious runs.
Netherlands was bowled out for a meager 189 runs in 46.4 overs. Zaheer http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Khan-c71319 ended his figures with three wickets to his name while Chawla and Yuvraj both grabbed 2 each.
In reply, India were off to a blazing start. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Virender-Sehwag-c95429 and Sachin Tendulkar both started off their innings in a good aggressive mood. Both the openers hit the ball hard and scored some blistering runs. Finally the first Indian wicket fell at 69 runs;
it was Sehwag who got out on the bowling of Pieter Seelaar for 39 runs.
Tendulkar was out soon after, leaving India at 80 for 2 in 9.1 overs. Yusuf Pathan, promoted up the batting order, could not deliver and was dismissed caught and bowled by Seelaar for 11 runs to leave India in some trouble at 82 for 3 in 9.5 overs.
Just before the Indian total reached 100 runs mark, another huge blow came for them. This time http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Virat-Kohli-c95424 was dismissed for 12 runs, clean bowled by Peter Borren and suddenly Netherlands was back in the game with a chance.
Yuvraj Singh who had a nice day with ball and a great previous game with bat and ball continued the Indian innings slowly yet affectively alongside http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gautam-Gambhir-c58623. The fifth Indian wicket fell when Mudassar Bukhari got rid of Gambhir who was batting on 28
runs to leave India at 139 for 5 in 23.1 overs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028 and Yuvraj batted diligently with some great responsibility to finish things up for India. Yuvraj completed his half century and was batting at 51 runs when India finished the chase in 36.3 overs with a loss of 5 wickets.
Dhoni was not out on 19 runs. Seelaar was the pick of the bowlers for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Netherlands-c753 for his three wickets. Yuvraj Singh was awarded the Man of the Match Award for his all-round performance with the bat and the ball.
With this victory http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757? Let’s wait and watch.
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