Virender Sehwag lauds Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma for playing mature cricket - Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 cricket team, heaped praise on Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli for their match-winning 163-run stand in the second One Day International of the five-match series played at the Dr. YSR Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium,
Visakhapatnam on Friday, December 2, 2011.
The stand in India skipper won the toss at Vizag and put http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RD-Shah-c2298 Rampaul’s record breaking unbeaten 86 at number 10.
While chasing the 270 run target, India were two wicket down inside seven overs with only 29 on the board. India’s third wicket was that of the skipper Sehwag who could score only 26 runs before being caught by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Russell-c87177 off Samuels to leave the side struggling
at 84 for 3 in the 17th over. From that point, the young due of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/V-Kohli-c2737 took the charge and went on to add 163 runs to the scorecard for the fourth wicket partnership to pave path for their side’s five-wicket win.
Sehwag said that though the two players are quite young to the international cricket, they played a matured and sensible cricket, just like the cricket veterans.
"They both batted with lot of maturity as if they have played 200 matches in between them although they have only played around 60-70 matches," said Sehwag while talking to the media reporters at the post-match media conference.
Virat Kohli played a pugnacious century knock laced with as many 14 muscular boundaries while Rohit Sharma remained unbeaten at 90 and stayed at the crease before Jadeja struck the winning stroke. Sharma’s 90 included seven boundaries and two loft sixes
and was adjudged as the man of the match.
Sehwag singled out Sharma for praises and was happy that the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Maharashtra-c811 batsman kept his vow to finish the match.
"I am pretty happy with their perfomance. Especially with that of Rohit Sharma. Yesterday he had promised that he would finish the game for us and he did just that. Also Virat Kohli batted superbly."
India now lead the five-match series 2-0. The third match of the series will be played at Ahmedabad on December 5, 2011.
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