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India vs Sri Lanka 2nd ODI Highlights

February 2nd, 2009 Comments Off Posted in India, Match Highlights, One Day Match, Sri Lanka

Cricket Highlights: Watch Sri Lanka vs India 2nd ODI highlights from the Premadasa, Colombo played on January 31, 2009.

Scoreline: India 256/9. Yuvraj Singh 66. Virender Sehwag 42 (26). Sri Lankan chase falls short (very close shave though) – 241. Kandamby 93 no, Jayawardene 52.

Virender Sehwag and Yuvraj Singh turned up big time for India after Sachin Tendulkar was given a second poor decision in a row. The flaws with decisions continued with Yuvraj given LBW after a huge edge onto pads. The Indian innings fell away after that. Dhoni has played important steadying knocks in recent times, but I’d rather see India lose and Dhoni play like he did in the 1st year of his career than see him potter around for 20 odd and then mess up the batting powerplay. All the aggressive intent in the powerplay seemed to be from Yusuf Pathan and he was eventually run out because of unnecessary pressure created by MS on himself. The eventual target was only reached because Zaheer Khan and Praveen Kumar hung around.

It’s quite strange why Praveen Kumar isn’t a permanent member of the ODI squad. I can’t remember a single poor game that he’s had, and there’s something about him that tells you major at-the-death exploits with the bat are around the corner. Today he was painfully economical while bowling and strangled the initial overs of the Lankan chase.

Muralitharan bowled beautifully – most of his overs were at Yuvraj who was on a roll and yet couldn’t really get him away. Murali even bowled a maiden batting powerplay over.

The Sri Lankan chase was hard done with plenty of drama in the opening overs – Dilshan trying to go nuts and quick wickets. Jayawardene and Kandamby rebuilt but the process was onerous for a good part. Jayawardene though, looked determined to exorcise his 94 vs India in 2008 that had lost partners. But this time, he fell way short. Kandamby meanwhile was hanging around without making too much of an impression other than that he looked like a very slightly trimmer Ranatunga. But he would later almost pull off one of the finest-paced innings in recent times. Unfortunately – a crucial loss of strike for the 49th over after Murali was runout off the last ball of the 48th over, a brilliant 49th by Ishanth Sharma, loss of partners – all conspired to thwart Lanka despite amazingly coming close.

Don’t miss a Yuvraj Singh glare at Umpire Gamini after a close Kandamby LBW was denied off Zaheer (Yuvraj having got a poor one while batting).

There was also an amazing ‘undislodgeable bail’ thing happening today. Twice the ball crashed into the stump and the bails remained unmoved. This is something that has happened during the Australia-SA series also and possibly has to do with the stumps being deeply entrenched. Why the stumps are stuck so deep in is worth wondering about – perhaps the stump-mike and cam is related?

Also don’t miss Arun Lal’s comments when Ishanth Sharma and Suresh Raina crash into each other – “Yes, yes, bodies touching, balls there, in between.” Only Arun Lal would say that on air. In fact Lal was quite frisky tonight – when Ishanth was hit by a nut-like object thrown from the crowd Arun remarked – “Dispensed with one of his nuts”

Pre-Game: With India 1-0 up after their win in the 1st ODI, it’s going to be interesting to see how Sri Lanka react – Mendis in particular. Most of the Indian batsmen looked comfortable (relative to the 2008 series) playing him, and Sehwag will be back with Tendulkar at the top. Unfortunately Rohit Sharma sits out, but a personal favourite, Praveen Kumar will be back today.

India Batting I

India II

SL Chase

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India vs Sri Lanka 1st ODI Highlights

January 30th, 2009 Comments Off Posted in India, Match Highlights, Sri Lanka

Cricket Highlights: Sri Lanka vs India 1st ODI 2009 played at Dambulla on 28 January.

Scoreline: SL 246. Sanath Jayasuriya hundred (107). India win with a couple of overs to spare. Gautham Gambhir 62, MS Dhoni 61 no, Suresh Raina 54.

Sanath Jayasuriya on a slowish wicket walloped Munaf Patel in particular en route to 13000 runs in ODI cricket and yet another century vs India. All the while Munaf reacted with just a grunt here and there. I really miss those glorious Munaf days where joy, pain, frustration and anger were all expressed with accurate simplicity – “Cummon bhe*cho**.

A fantastic knock by Jayasuriya amidst severe exhaustion that stood starkly against most of the Sri Lankan middle order. Sangakkara helped Sanath out with 40 odd and Maharoof provided some hard hitting towards the end. SL didn’t make use of their batting power play getting just 28 runs and losing 2 wickets in those significant 5 overs.

Yusuf Pathan and Suresh Raina provided the funniest moment in cricket since Michael Hussey’s dropped catch; both staring at each other as the ball plonked mildly between them.

Gambhir played some stunning shots very fine, while the rest of the Indian chase was the current stuff you get from them. Raina and Dhoni doing the efficient, dependable stuff with Yuvraj and Rohit Sharma sparkling briefly. Raina did start with some fantastic shots but then settled into singles-mode, while Dhoni whacked a few straight fours later on.

Kumar Dharmasena reappeared today on an international cricket field as an Umpire but got Tendulkar’s decision wrong. To his credit, it wasn’t too far outside leg and this is Dharmasena’s first game.

And that was that.

Sri Lanka Batting

India Batting

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India vs Sri Lanka, 1st ODI, Live Cricket Streaming

January 28th, 2009 1 Comment Posted in India, Live Matches, One Day Match, Sri Lanka

As expected BCCI has scheduled this tour to cover losses after canceling India tour of Pakistan due to tensions between both countries after Mumbai strike and both Pakistan and India should be thankful to Sri Lanka for proposing tour despite their busy schedule in January.

Sri Lanka won recently concluded ODI series against Pakistan(2-1) and seem to be in good form and now they will even have home advantage which will make it bit difficult for India team but India last ODI series was against England and they crushed England 5-0 in truncated series. Should be interesting series ahead for all of us and let’s hope it will be very competitive one like Australia vs South Africa.

India: 1 Sachin Tendulkar, 2 Gautam Gambhir, 3 Rohit Sharma 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 Suresh Raina, 6 Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt/wk), 7 Yusuf Pathan, 8 Pragyan Ojha, 9 Zaheer Khan, 10 Ishant Sharma, 11 Munaf Patel

Sri Lanka: 1 Sanath Jayasuriya, 2 Tillakaratne Dilshan, 3 Kumar Sangakkara (wk), 4 Mahela Jayawardene (capt), 5 Thilina Kandamby, 6 Chamara Kapugedera, 7 Thilan Thushara, 8 Farveez Maharoof, 9 Nuwan Kulasekara, 10 Muttiah Muralitharan, 11 Ajantha Mendis

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