India vs http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 – First ODI – Match Update
At the end of the 20th over of the first One Day International (ODI) of the three-match series at Chennai, India are in trouble, having scored 76 runs for the loss of five wickets, courtesy a brilliant spell of fast bowling
by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Junaid-Khan-c77037.
Earlier in the day, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Misbah-ul-Haq-c1972 won the toss and had no hesitation in opting to bowl first in conditions, which were expected to assist the seamers.
Junaid, the left-arm fast bowler, showed his talent and delivered an outstanding spell with the new ball, picking up four top-order wickets. The youngster clean bowled http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RG-Sharma-c2309
was beautifully caught at the third slip by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Hafeez-c76898.
At one stage, the Men in Blue had lost half of their side for just 29 runs on the board and were looking down the barrel, before http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SK-Raina-c2539 consolidated the innings for the hosts and are presently trying to
build a good partnership, which is necessary if http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 are to have any chance in this fixture.
The home team’s batsmen have struggled against the quality of the visitors’ pace battery and the Pakistan captain had already hinted before the fixture that he will rely on his fast bowlers to attack the home team’s batsmen and hoped
that the likes of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Umar-Gul-c94604 will live up to the expectations.
“Even before the series we were banking on our pacers to put pressure on the Indian batsmen and they succeeded in doing this in the first T20,” Misbah said. “I hope they continue in the same spirit and rhythm for the one-day series
as well.”
The on-going encounter is the first for both the sides with the new 50-over regulations and the Indian captain, Dhoni, is geared up to experience the changes.
“If you ask me, I am not very happy with the rules. I feel ODIs have seen lot a of changes over the years. People talk a lot about Test cricket and T20 Internationals, but I feel all the experiments are forced on the ODI format,” Dhoni
expressed.
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