http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Umesh-Yadav-c94625 providing early breakthroughs in front of a packed Barabati Stadium, Cuttack, November
29, 2011.
With dew factor in mind, stand in skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Varun-Aaron-c2744.
The hosts were without key duo, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Tendulkar-c2556, as both have been given breaks due to a hectic schedule for the Men In Blue.
Windies skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AB-Barath-c886 opening the batting.
The start was brisk with Barath chancing their arms to great effective, earning a few boundaries. Despite looking good, he failed to deal with an absolute jaffer off Kumar and went after making a quick fire 17. The ball pitched seeming to hold its line,
but started to shape away and caught the batsman on the back foot, while taking the slightest of edge and fell kindly into the gloves of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Parthiv-Patel-c2159.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Marlon-Nathaniel-Samuels-c74804 then walked in and he too started in fine fashion, clobbering Yadav for a couple of boundaries. Simmons then finally got into the act, where he smashed the first ball of the 7th over straight down the ground to open his account
before lofting the next delivery effortlessly to the mid wicket region to earn a maximum.
Prompted by such attacking intent, Sehwag than brought his other seam option Aaron and the bowler made an immediate impact as he got rid of Samuels. In trying to hit him out of the park, the Windies batsman made a mockery of his stance, with the ball hitting
his pads and went onto disturb the timber.
With two down, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DM-Bravo-c1386, the inform Windies batsman arrived and along with Simmons helped the team to cross the 50-run mark.
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