Sussex v Indians – Tour game - Match Recap
Sussex 236 (45/45 ov); Indians 238/4 (40.5/45 ov) – Indians won by 6 wickets (with 25 balls remaining) (D/L method)
After suffering a cluster of defeats at the hands of England’s national cricket team, India opened their account with a comprehensive win over English county side, Sussex, in a rain affected match played at County Ground, Hove
on Thursday, August 25.
Sussex posted 236 runs while the visiting side chased down the total with six wickets in hand and 4.1 overs still left to play.
Indian skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028, won the toss and considering the overcast conditions, invited the opposition to bat first. Rain started pouring onto the field after only 2.1 overs were bowled and as a result of the interruption
the match was reduced to 45 overs per side.
Indian bowlers, who have been criticized for lacking the venom in Zaheer Khan’s absence, made early inroads by breaking opening partnership between http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Chris-Nash-c1247.
The Men in Blue executed their plan with great precision to see the back of Wells, as they drained the flow of runs and forced the batsman to take extra risks. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/P-Kumar-c2143, who returned after missing the Oval Test because of
a knee injury, bowled an away swinging delivery which kissed the outside edge of Wells' bat and ended in Dhoni’s gloves. Wells scored a mere 2 runs and got out on fourth delivery of third over.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 lost their
second wicket at the score of 27.
The Sharks started to rebuild innings with the third and fourth-wicket partnerships, accumulating 31 and 47 runs respectively.
The fifth-wicket stand between http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SK-Raina-c2539, to bring an end to their partnership in the 34th
over. Raina deceived Machan, who lobbed the ball straight towards him.
The sixth-wicket partnership also proved fruitful for Sharks as it contributed 48 runs to the total. However, there was slump afterwards as the last four batsmen could only manage 18 runs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Parthiv-Patel-c2159 providing a 41-run stand for the first-wicket. The same trend continued for the second and third-wickets as they amassed 63 and 103 runs respectively.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RG-Sharma-c2309 also played a sizzling knock of 61 from 65 deliveries, seeing his side to the win
with just four wickets down.
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