- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR18.3 that's all over for Gambhir, he's danced down the ground but the bowler fired that into the pads, lofted that high towards square leg but that doesn't have the timing, Lamsan comes around and picks off a clean take, that was a soft dismissal and a big boost for Hong Kong 136/214.3 Relief for Hong Kong. Sehwag is gone. Najeeb strikes. Sehwag rushes down the track and tries to heave it to wide long-on region but edges a dolly to backward point. 127/124.6 And Rohit is run out. Dhoni was squared up but managed to push it to cover point. For some reason, Rohit had charged across, perhaps he wanted his captain to retain the strike, and couldn't get back in time to beat the direct hit 159/345.3 Raina charged down the track and wanted to heave it to wide long-on but edged it to over extra cover. Good catch by Irfan running back 325/4Extras9 (b 6, lb 1, w 2)TOTAL374/4 (50 Overs, RR: 7.48)Fall of wickets: 1-127 (Virender Sehwag, 14.3 ov), 2-136 (Gautam Gambhir, 18.3 ov), 3-159 (Rohit Sharma, 24.6 ov), 4-325 (Suresh Raina, 45.3 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB Afzaal Haider 6 0 72 1 12.00 8 8 3 0 0 Irfan Ahmed 6 0 53 0 8.83 14 4 3 1 0 JPR Lamsam 2 0 27 0 13.50 2 4 1 0 0 Nadeem Ahmed 8 0 52 0 6.50 26 6 2 0 0 Najeeb Amar 10 0 40 2 4.00 34 4 0 0 0 Munir Dar 10 0 55 0 5.50 22 4 1 0 0 Skhawat Ali 8 0 68 0 8.50 11 3 4 1 0
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR12.3 stumped by a lovely leg break. He ran down the track, the ball dipped in front of him on the middle stump line and turned past the outside edge. Chawla was guilty in his earlier days of bowling too many googlies and not concentrating enough on the conventional one but he is making amends these days. A session with Warne recently has helped. 49/21.3 Dead plumb. It curves in to the middle stump line and the batsman can't get his bat around the front pad in time. 4/117.3 soft dismissal. He couldn't keep a straight drive down. The ball dipped on him and he didn't quite lean forward into the shot. 54/416.2 stumped by a googly this time. He charged down the track, had a big heave, missed but Dhoni didn't 54/322.1 another stumping. This time by a big spinning leg break. It drifted in towards leg stump before turning sharply past the lunging batsman. Dhoni does the final rites. 67/529.3 Irfan is run out. Yusuf floated it outside off stump, Irfan turned to right of square leg where RP rushed to and fired a throw to Yusuf who collected the ball awkwardly in front of the stumps but managed to break the stumps 91/633.4 another run out. Pushed to backward point and only Lamsam ran and he had to run back. Too late. 109/830.4 Wicket no 7. He top edges a slog sweep to mid-on. Another wicket for Chawla who has bowled quite a few legbreaks in this game and has got them to turn. The right arm used to go too high and in an angle, almost touching the right ear and he used to bowl lots of googlies but was unable to get the leg break to turn much. Now he has corrected his right-arm position, at times he even gets them rounder to impart more turn. 99/736.4 does it on his own with a yorker. Really full on the middle stump and he played all around it 118/936.5 Caught by Dhoni. It held its line after landing around the off stump line, he got a thin nick to defensive poke. Game over. 118/10Extras9 (lb 2, w 7)TOTAL118 all out (36.5 Overs, RR: 3.2)Fall of wickets: 1-4 (Skhawat Ali, 1.3 ov), 2-49 (Tabarak Dar, 12.3 ov), 3-54 (Hussain Butt, 16.2 ov), 4-54 (Jamie Atkinson, 17.3 ov), 5-67 (Courtney Kruger, 22.1 ov), 6-91 (Irfan Ahmed, 29.3 ov), 7-99 (Munir Dar, 30.4 ov), 8-109 (Roy Lamsam, 33.4 ov), 9-118 (Afzaal Haider, 36.4 ov), 10-118 (Nadeem Ahmed, 36.5 ov)
Match Details
Series
Toss
India , elected to bat first
Player Of The Match
Match number
Season
Hours of play (local time)
16.00 start, First Session 16.00-19.30 Interval 19.30-20.15, Second Session 20.15-23.45
Match days
25 June 2008 - night match (50-over match)
ODI debut
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
India 2, Hong Kong 0
Match Notes
- India: 50 runs in 5.1 overs (31 balls), Extras 4
- 1st Wicket: 50 runs in 31 balls (G Gambhir 25, V Sehwag 21, Ex 4)
- V Sehwag: 50 off 27 balls (9 x 4, 2 x 6)
- Power Play 2: Overs 10.1 - 15.0
- India: 100 runs in 10.5 overs (65 balls), Extras 4
- 1st Wicket: 100 runs in 65 balls (G Gambhir 38, V Sehwag 59, Ex 4)
- Power Play 3: Overs 15.1 - 20.0
- G Gambhir: 50 off 50 balls (7 x 4)
- Drinks: India - 135/1 in 18.0 overs (G Gambhir 51, RG Sharma 2)
- India: 150 runs in 21.5 overs (131 balls), Extras 4
- India: 200 runs in 33.3 overs (201 balls), Extras 4
- 4th Wicket: 50 runs in 62 balls (MS Dhoni 20, SK Raina 32, Ex 1)
- Drinks: India - 242/3 in 39.0 overs (MS Dhoni 48, SK Raina 48)
- SK Raina: 50 off 50 balls (4 x 4)
- MS Dhoni: 50 off 64 balls (4 x 4, 1 x 6)
- India: 250 runs in 40.3 overs (244 balls), Extras 6
- 4th Wicket: 100 runs in 99 balls (MS Dhoni 42, SK Raina 58, Ex 2)
- India: 300 runs in 43.5 overs (264 balls), Extras 8
- 4th Wicket: 150 runs in 120 balls (MS Dhoni 53, SK Raina 95, Ex 5)
- SK Raina: 100 off 66 balls (7 x 4, 5 x 6)
- India: 350 runs in 47.4 overs (288 balls), Extras 9
- MS Dhoni: 100 off 90 balls (5 x 4, 6 x 6)
- Innings Break: India - 374/4 in 50.0 overs (MS Dhoni 109, RV Uthappa 15)
- Power Play 2: Overs 10.1 - 15.0
- Hong Kong: 50 runs in 12.4 overs (81 balls), Extras 5
- Power Play 3: Overs 15.1 - 20.0
- Drinks: Hong Kong - 54/2 in 16.0 overs (JJ Atkinson 23, KH Butt 4)
- Hong Kong: 100 runs in 31.2 overs (195 balls), Extras 9
Match Coverage
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