Indians v Leicestershire - Tour game- Match Recap
Indians 161/5 (20 ov); http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Leicestershire-c807 146/7 (20 ov)- Indians won by 15 runs
After being humbled by England’s national cricket team in the npower Test series, Team India has found its lost touch as the Men in Blue secured their third win of the expedition by defeating Leicestershire in a Twenty20 tour game
played at Grace Road, Leicester on Monday, August 29.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 posted 161 runs for the loss of five wickets from 20 overs while the hosts in their reply could only muster 146.
Leicestershire’s skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Matthew-Hoggard-c1926, won the toss and after inspecting the pitch and considering the conditions, invited the opposition to bat first.
Indian vanguards, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/G-Gambhir-c1447 are injured, made full use of the power plays and also put-up a fifty run stand.
The openers executed their plan with great precision and went after the bowling from the word go, thus not allowing the bowlers to settle into any sort of rhythm.
Howeever, Rahane was the first man to make his way back into the dressing room and it was the Pakistani all-rounder, Abdul Razzaq, who claimed his wicket. He scored 19 runs from 13 deliveries.
Veteran batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/R-Dravid-c2229, came into bat at number three spot. He, along with the youngster, complied another 21 runs before Parthiv departed in the ninth over, leaving his partner stranded in the middle. Parthiv’s innings
comprised of 31 deliveries from which he scaled 40 runs.
One youngster was replaced by another, as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jigar-Naik-c1694 bowled one gem of a delivery to see the back of Kohli.
Dravid finally gave up the fight in the 16th over and the 21-year-old leg-spinner, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Joshua-Cobb-c1739, from Leicestershire will cherish taking his wicket for rest of his life. The veteran batsman notched 29 runs.
Later in the Indian innings, some important contributions came from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SK-Raina-c2539, who propelled the side to reach 161. The duo scored 29 and 21 runs respectively.
Leicestershire in their reply, suffered an early blow as Cobb failed to show a similar performance with the bat as he had done with the bowl. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/P-Kumar-c2143 got a delivery to swing back in and cleaned bowled the batsman.
The second-wicket partnership between http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-McDonald-c1042 and Will Jefferson provided the hosts with some stability and turned the match towards Leicestershire’s favour. However, the Indians bounced back into the game, strongly taking
wickets at regular intervals thus increasing the run rate required.
Leicestershire’s last glimmer of hope was Abdul Razzaq, and while he was at the crease, it seemed as if they would chase down the total. But once he got out it was all over as the incoming batsmen could not meet the required run
rate and lost the match by 15 runs.
Tags: