Northants v Indians – Tour Match – 2nd Day’s Recap
Indians 352 v Northamptonshire 355/7 (83.2 ov) - Match drawn (Northamptonshire won on 1st innings)
The hosts http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Northamptonshire-c824 in the two-day warm-up game beat the tourists India by overcoming a tally of 352 runs posted by the Indians in their first innings. Although the match is considered as a draw since both sides only played one innings, nonetheless,
the Northants showed their batting dominance by clobbering 355 runs on the final day against the Indian bowlers.
Earlier, after ending the first day with 327 runs on the board at County Ground, Northampton, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 started the proceedings on the second and final day of the two-day warm-up match against Northamptonshire aiming to bat for as long as possible with Amit
Mishra on 48 and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/S-Sreesanth-c2398 on 15 runs from their overnight batting cameo.
The late-order Indian batsmen showed good touch with the bat, as they gave a stiff resistance to the opposition by smashing bad deliveries all over the park. With less than a day left, the Indians wanted to bat for maximum number of overs and enjoy their
time on the crease; however, Northamptonshire had other things in mind as they were not going to be blown away by the number one team in Test cricket without giving a fight.
In the 94th over of the innings, Sreesanth lost his composure when after playing a hefty knock of 25 runs off 39 deliveries he was caught off the bowling of right-arm pacer http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Luke-Evans-c73277. At the time of his departure the Indian had managed to post
345 runs on the board for the loss of eight wickets.
In the 96th over it was time for the Indian innings to wrap-up when Mishra, after playing an energetic innings of 61 runs off 120 deliveries had his stumps uprooted by a superb delivery bowled by Evans. The batsman had no clue as to how to prevent
the delivery from ramming into his stumps causing him to only hear the timber behind him shattered after he failed to make the bat and ball contact.
At the end of their innings, India had managed to post a respectable tally on the board which looked a tough task for the hosts to achieve.
However, the Northamptonshire openers http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mal-Loye-c1879 and Niall O'Brien left everyone awestruck as they exhibited a belligerent batting onslaught against India, shredding the bowling attack that seemed too good to be dismantled, nonetheless, the batsmen took the
bowlers to task and pulverised the mighty Indian bowling arsenal into rubble.
Wave after wave, the Indian bowlers kept bolting deliveries at the defiant batsmen, who without any hindrance kept playing the bowlers with great zeal and confidence.
Loye smacked a 100 runs off 149 deliveries before losing his wicket while his opening partner O'Brien played a mammoth innings of 117 runs off 172 deliveries before finding his way back to the pavilion after getting caught behind by Indian wicketkeeper Mahendra
Singh Dhoni off the bowling of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/A-Mishra-c871.
Nonetheless, the damage had been done by the openers which was capitalised by the rest of the team as the Northants crossed India’s tally. Although the two-day games are meant to have no winners, however, the hosts were the obvious winners because of the
scores of both the teams in their first innings.
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