that's five for the road for Praveen Kumar! Munaf gets a little too adventurous and shuffles across his stumps, aiming to flick it down leg. He fails to get bat on ball and is struck on the pads in line with leg stump
India Red vs India Green, at Ahmedabad, Oct 26 2007 - Ball by Ball Commentary
Green's response to 303 is probably described as a meek surrender. Besides Tiwary, who top scored with 65, the rest failed to make a fist of the target, or at least deny Reds a bonus point.
Reds are through to the final after bagging a bonus point today and this means that India Green will have to win by a thumping margin tomorrow (against India Blue) if they are to qualify.
We hope you enjoyed the coverage today. Do join us again tomorrow for the final league match, between India Blue and India Green (starts 9.00 GMT) . Till then, it's cheers!
timber! Kumar bowls length and keeps it on the stumps. Singh gives room for another heave but was too early on the stroke. A swing and a miss follows and the leg stumps goes back a few yards
back of a length on middle, Singh plays it back to Kumar
Kumar aims for an inswinging yorker but errs by bowling it too full, Singh backs away and lofts wide of long-on. The ball just falls short of the rope
outside off and glided down to third man for a single
gets the ball to drift in from outside off, quietly played down to the covers
Praveen Kumar returns
pushed to mid-off, looks for a singke but decides against it
shifts to a good length outside off, punched off the backfoot towards point
full in length on middle and leg, pushed to long-on
well this time Singh finally connect cleanly and how! that was short of a length on middle and Singh clubbed that over deep midwicket
full in length on off and middle, Singh backs away and scoops that down to long-off
Greens still need a further 41 to prevent Reds from gaining a bonus point. Trivedi returns
played back to the bowler
Ishant adjusts his length to a fuller one outside off, Singh drives on the up and the ball just beats the diving mid-off and is pulled back before the boundary
Singh swings, gets bat on it but the ball races straight to mid-off
Ishant gives Pankaj another go with a delivery outside off and another wild swish follows
pushed to the off side, they decide against the run at first but thanks to an overthrow to the striker's end, they go through with the run
Singh goes for yet another swish across the line, the ball gets the toe edge of the bat and rolls away quickly towards slip. Kaif dives and geta hand to it before deflecting past him to third man
outside off and Abdulla offers no stroke
pushed to the off side