India fighting at 200-5 in 40-overs - ICC World Cup 2011 semi-final
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028 was at the crease with 22 and Suresh Raina at 8 runs.
Earlier India had scored 119 runs for the loss of two important wickets of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gautam-Gambhir-c58623 on 27 runs. The second wicket fell with the total on 116 runs. Sachin Tendulkar
was playing a lucky innings of 46 runs, as he was dropped twice by the senior opponents, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Younis-Khan-c98325.
Tendulkar completed his fifty on the second ball of the 22nd over when he dispatched a four off http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Wahab-Riaz-c95839 in the 24th over and he gave 3 runs in that
over, which was his fourth over. He produced an excellent fifth over, as he got rid of Kohli who was magnificently caught by Umar Akmal at backward point and on the very next ball clean bowled the most prominent batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yuvraj-Singh-c98364 with a swinging delivery.
Both wickets fell at the total of 141 runs and he was on a hat-trick which was avoided by the Captain MS Dhoni.
Tendulkar and Dhoni stabilised the innings with caution and aggression, Tendulkar was again lucky when he was let off by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kamran-Akmal-c70122 in the 30th over, bowled by Afridi once he had scored 70 runs. Tendulkar once again got spared when he was dropped
by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Umar-Akmal-c94595 at wide mid-wicket on the last ball of the over bowled by Hafeez at the total of 181, once he had posted 81 runs.
He could not survive and was caught by Afridi at short extra cover off the bowling of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Saeed-Ajmal-c87859, he was gone just 15 short of his 100th century with the total on 187 runs. The young Suresh Raina joined his captain and took the total to 200 by
the end of the 40th over. Dhoni is unbeaten on 22 runs and Raina was holding the other end, batting at 8 runs.
India has to score around 300 runs to make sure they can get through the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 batting with smart bowling and fielding, as Pakistan is capable of smashing their exposed bowling.
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