Wahab Riaz’s gutsy five wicket haul in Mohali – ICC World Cup 2011 semi-final
Wahab Raiz came up with one of the best performances of not only the ICC World Cup 2011 but also his career. With his brilliant and accurate bowling, Wahab not only bagged five wickets in today’s game but played an important role in restricting the strong
Indian batting line-up to only 260-9.
This was Wahab’s first five wicket haul and he has shown that he was a worthy replacement for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Umar-Gul-c94604 conceding just four runs in the first over. The Indian opening pair showed some strong character
making sure that they not only made a decent, but an exquisite start.
The Indians were flying inside the first 10-overs maintaining an average of over nine runs per over, but the introduction of Riaz turned things around. Sehwag was on fire after smashing Gul for five boundaries in the third over.
Riaz got the crucial wicket of Sehwag, trapping him in front of the wickets. Despite taking the review, it ended in Riaz’s favour. The Indians were going on to dominate and they truly had a very good chance of scoring an intimidating total as long as Sachin
Tendulkar was on the crease.
The Indians were going on nicely, but the fall of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yuvraj-Singh-c98364 went through his defences and cleaned him up.
One of the potential threats to the Pakistanis by Yuvraj, was removed from the equation. Riaz continued to pile up some breath-taking deliveries that often went past the outside edge. Applauded by the fans all around, Riaz was able to continue on his superb
performance which enabled him to get the wicket of the Indian Captain, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mahendra-Singh-Dhoni-c73820.
Riaz with his splendid swinging and fast paced bowling was hoping to grab his first five wicket haul and did just that, after http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zaheer-Khan-c98451 behind. Riaz captured his first five wicket haul and what an occasion to do so, at the
game considered to be the ‘Mother of all Battles'.
Riaz finished with figures of 5-46 in 10-overs and has given Pakistan a great chance of beating http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 for the first time in World Cup history.
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