Thursday, October 11, 2007

Indian team losing its way(I)

Hi friend
Today I m going to have a say about the recent failure of Indian cricket team against the Australians.In the T20 world cup Indian defeated the Australians but they are not able to maintain that streak.In the first match Australia batted first we got a good start removing couple of wicket very early but did not capitalise that they still maintain there rate at 5 an over But after few overs we got couple of wicket and they have not reached 100.At that point it appeared that we will be able to get them restricted within 250 but that's not happened.Clarke and Haddin put up a good partnership and put them in a commanding position .Later on Clarke went on to hit the century and took his team beyond 300.Clarke is of the future star of the modern cricket which he showed in this match.Now that total was always going to be a cakewalk for the Indian.Half of the match was over.The Indians come to chase the target and right from the word go Australian were on the attack. Indian managed to handle the first over but in the next over there come the shock the master blaster Sachin was plumb LBW to johnson and more badly on "0".That was going to be a disaster for the Indian.After couple of over the rain god gave there mercy to the Indians and there comes the rains and continued for the whole night and which saves them.Hard luck for the Australians and good luck for the Indian
Now comes the second ODI the Australian were frustrated with rain and by the defeat in T2o world cup.They were not in a mood to be relax.In this match we got a good start removing danger man gilchrist on "0".After couple of more overs we got another wicket but that was the last good thing because from there the Australians played tremendous cricket and hayden,Symond and Haddin got good knock and got 306 on the scoreboard.As per the history of Indian team it was next to impossible but still there was a hope that we will win.When we came to chase the target we lost the opener very early and were put on the back foot.Our rate was good but we were losing the wicket at regular interval and going away from the target.Our captain batted very well but it was not enough and in the end we lost the match by a huge margin of 84 runs.We were now 1-0 in the series .Similar sort of thing happened in the third ODI The Australian here got the good start and every batsman contributed and more importantly at a good rate and they got a total of 290.This time there were some bright chances of winning the match still not very bright.Indian got very poor start they lost the opener very early and after couple of more over the Indians were tottering at 11/3 but sachin and yuvraj were still at the crease .Slowly and slowly they steady the ship and build a partnership of around 100 runs but at that point sachin was out and lost the way but yuvraj was playing brilliantly but nobody give resistance from the other end.Finally he got century but due to lack of support his team felt 47 runs short of the target and were 2-0 in the series.

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