http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 v West Indies 2011: Abhinav Mukund laments over missing century in 3rd Test – Cricket News Update
The young Indian opening batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760, being held at Windsor Park, Dominica.
On the third day of the game, the tourists took a terrible start to their first innings, losing http://www.senore.com/Cricket/R-Dravid-c2229, at a score of 18. Claiming two early wickets, the Caribbean bowlers were on song, inflicting immense pressure on the
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Young-c98322 Mukund who was playing the third match of his Test career.
However, the 21-year-old batsman showed a lot of character, grafting his way to the first fifty at the International level. Mukund shared an important 98-run-partnership with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Vangipurappu-Venkata-Sai-Laxman-c94905 which eventually assisted the visiting side to get a handsome lead of
100-plus at the end of the day.
Mukund expressed his delight over smashing his maiden half-century in a crucial situation but at the same time, he was slightly frustrated over not being able to reach the three-figure-score.
Mukund’s hopes of a ton were shattered in the 42nd over of the innings when Devendra Bishoo produced a bat-pad chance, inviting the batsman to whip it through square leg but the ball went directly into the hands of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AB-Barath-c886 who didn’t make
a mistake.
"I am really disappointed. After doing all the hard work when the ball was swinging in the morning, I tried to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Adrian-Roger-Kirshaw-Pierson-c42135 on and then got out to a ball, I must not have got out to many a times," said Mukund who scored a steady knock of 62 runs including five
superb boundaries.
Commenting on the wicket, the left-harder described the track as a bit slower than the one in the previous Test, saying that it looked like an Indian pitch with less bounce and pace in it.
"The first two tracks had a lot of bounce. This one, frankly, looked like an Indian wicket to me. But still planting your feet and playing out forward took a lot of effort. But then I started trusting the wicket and could go forward a lot more than in Barbados,"
added the opening batsman who recently got his berth confirmed in the Indian squad for the upcoming http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 tour.
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