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Post by lakshmi87 on May 19, 2006 11:03:54 GMT 5.5
congrats for indian team.very happy to see kaif back in form.agarkar bowled extremely well & gave break thru.dravids century was amazing.hope indians continue this victory march.little bit disappointed with dhonis performance.but happy wit his sixer.
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Post by ADITI AGARWAL on May 19, 2006 12:38:35 GMT 5.5
CONGRATS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BEST OF LUCK FOR THE REST OF THE TOUR .
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Post by ADITI AGARWAL on May 19, 2006 12:40:27 GMT 5.5
CONGRATS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BEST OF LUCK FOR THE REST OF THE TOUR .
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Post by nkjaiswal on May 19, 2006 12:42:48 GMT 5.5
Lets wish that this trends continues......and keep our smiles .....
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Post by Abhijit on May 19, 2006 14:47:02 GMT 5.5
congrats for indian team.very happy to see kaif back in form.agarkar bowled extremely well & gave break thru.dravids century was amazing.hope indians continue this victory march.little bit disappointed with dhonis performance.but happy wit his sixer.
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Post by Saurabh Jain on May 20, 2006 22:49:59 GMT 5.5
Good luck to team india
In second match WI Score : 108/6 in 37.0 Overs Ramnaresh Sarwan Not Out 54 CS Baugh Not Out 1
Keep playing good
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Post by Saurabh Jain on May 20, 2006 23:49:10 GMT 5.5
WI SCORED 198 FOR 9
India needs 199 run to win
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Post by Saurabh Jain on May 21, 2006 1:34:45 GMT 5.5
india 53/3 dravid sehvaag pathan out
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Post by Saurabh Jain on May 21, 2006 5:58:57 GMT 5.5
Windies snatch thrilling one-run win WI snap India's chasing streak with win
Dwayne Bravo bowled Yuvraj Singh with his third delivery of the final over to hand the West Indies a thrilling one-run victory over India in the second One-Day International at Sabina Park in Kingston, Jamaica, on Saturday.
With 11 runs required for victory in the last over, Yuvraj hit two consecutive fours to leave India just two runs to get off the last three deliveries. But Bravo's next delivery was a full toss that crashed onto the stumps, as Yuvraj, on 93, went for a big hit.
The defeat ended India's 17-match successful streak while chasing and allowed the West Indies level the series 1-1.
Ramnaresh Sarwan, who hit an unbeaten 98 earlier, was named man of the match.
Set a modest target after the home side was restricted to 198 for 9 in 50 overs after being inserted in, India messed up the chase with some shoddy batting and were eventually bowled out for 197 with two balls to spare.
The failure of the batsmen to apply themselves on a pitch that had slowed down in the last two days undid the good work done earlier in the field.
Ian Bradshaw, the best bowler on view on Thursday, proved India's nemesis again, claiming three wickets for 33 runs with his nagging length.
The left arm seamer did the early damage, scalping Virender Sehwag and Rahul Dravid in his new ball spell, before returning to remove Ajit Agarkar in the latter part of the innings.
Yuvraj waged a lone battle with a restrained innings that consumed 121 balls and included eight fours and a six.
Dismissed cheaply in the opener, he showed exemplary character in carrying the Indian innings on his shoulders in energy sapping conditions. He featured in two vital partnerships, adding 64 runs for the fifth wicket with Suresh Raina (27) in the middle overs to help the side recover from 60 for four, and another 47 runs for the eighth wicket with Ramesh Powar (12) that saw India recover from 134 for 7 to 22 runs short of victory off as many balls.
Part-time slow bowlers Marlon Samuels (2-30) and Chris Gayle (1-33) also frustrated the Indian batsmen with some tight bowling.
Earlier, India's bowlers produced a miserly performance. Put into bat for the second successive time, the hosts showed none of the belligerence of the opening match at the same venue while the Indians were more accurate with the ball and intensity on the field.
The West Indies innings revolved around Ramnaresh Sarwan's unbeaten 98 that lifted them first from 43-4 and then 105-6 to give the total a semblance of respectability.
India's new ball bowlers Irfan Pathan (3-45) and Ajit Agarkar (2-25) set the tone for the proceedings with tidy opening spells.
Sarwan, who faced 138 balls and hit seven fours and a six, shared a 60-run stand with Marlon Samuels (10) and later in the closing stages stitched a valuable 38-run partnership for the seventh wicket with Carlton Baugh (21).
The vice-captain, who survived more than one run-out chance, moved into his 90s in style, collecting two fours and a six off Pathan in the 49th over.
But he was stranded two short of a century as Jerome Taylor failed to rotate the strike.
Neither Chris Gayle (0), centurion from the previous game, nor captain Brian Lara (14) were of any use and but for the Sarwan-Samuels association, the innings could have been further in shambles.
Pathan set the trend with two successive maidens and the wicket of Runako Morton (1) with a delivery that kept low and found the batsman in front of stumps.
Agarkar, in between those two overs, had provided India with the first breakthrough by inducing Gayle to flirt with an away delivery and edge it to wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni for nought.
Lara flicked and square cut Pathan for two boundaries in successive overs but the latter had his revenge when he brought the left-hander forward and guided an easy catch to lone slip Rahul Dravid.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul clobbered Harbhajan Singh for two fours in the off-spinner's very first over but the latter got his even with a delivery that sat up for the batsman to cut it hard but straight to cover fielder Mohammad Kaif.
Like Harbhajan, Powar too started poorly, conceding eight runs in his first over, but then recovered to finish with 2 for 38 from his allotted 10 overs.
Harbhajan was similarly miserly and ended up with one for 32 from his 10 overs as batsmen couldn't come to grips with his variety and guile.
Pathan came back for his second spell to clean up Ian Bradshaw (12) and Agarkar too chipped in with one in his final to leave West Indies short of 200 runs.
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Post by loyalgurl on May 21, 2006 9:42:53 GMT 5.5
Oh GoD!!! It must hav been exciting towards the end... bt it ws BAD!! all the best team India for the next one......
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Post by Saurabh Jain on May 24, 2006 8:11:29 GMT 5.5
India paid the price for another sloppy batting performance as West Indies comfortably overhauled their competitive target for a four-wicket victory in the third cricket one-dayer here on Wednesday.
The Indians made a complete hash of a splendid start provided by back-to-form Virender Sehwag and ended up with a disappointing 245 for nine at the Warner Park.
The West Indians, led by a masterly century by Man of the Match Ramnaresh Sarwan, kept their cool against some late fightback by the visitors and won with a ball to spare to take a 2-1 lead in the five-match series.
Sarwan, playing his 100th one-dayer, smashed an unbeaten 115 from 119 balls and his composed knock guided the hosts through some tense final moments.
West Indies needed six from Sreesanth's final over, and when Dwayne Bravo (1) was run-out off the second and the third was a dot ball, the equation was down to four runs from the final three balls.
Sarwan thrashed the fourth delivery to extra cover where captain Rahul Dravid misfielded giving the batsman two runs and now it was two required from the final two deliveries.
Sarwan hit the penultimate ball to extra cover boundary to clinch it for the hosts.
Earlier, Sehwag cracked a brilliant 97 from 82 balls and put on 112 runs with Mohammad Kaif (61) at a run-a-ball rate before the wickets began to fall in a heap.
Indians were coasting along merrily at 211 for 3 in the 38th over before three run-outs and a few careless shots pulled them down to a moderate total.
The collapse saw India lose six wickets for only 42 runs in the last 15 overs and instead of looking at a figure of 300 and beyond, the tourists were gasping to make it to 250 runs.
While chasing, Sarwan received critical support from Shivnaraine Chanderpaul (58) and their 106-run fifth wicket stand was critical to West Indies' victory.
The pair came together after skipper Brian Lara (5) had departed to a catch in the slips, his flick off Harbhajan Singh taking the outside edge, and West Indies had slipped to 131 for 4 in the 29th over.
A critical moment of the innings came when Chanderpaul strained his hamstring muscle in the 32nd over with the score reading 143 for 4.
The doughty left-hander sought a runner instead of returning to the pavilion and it paid handsome dividends as the pair took apart the Indian attack in clinical fashion.
Sarwan also had a 85-run third wicket stand with opener Chris Gayle who made 40 before edging a catch off Ajit Agarkar behind the stumps.
The right-hander, left stranded on 98 in the second match in Kingston on Saturday, suffered no such agony today.
Offie Ramesh Powar (0-59) was to suffer the most from Sarwan who collected boundaries at will off the stocky bowler, including two huge sixes over long on.
India won the toss and chose to bat first on a wicket which was expected to get slower as the day progressed. Captain Rahul Dravid left in the first over when he missed an ondrive against Ian Bradshaw and was ruled out leg before wicket.
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Post by Saurabh Jain on May 29, 2006 4:34:36 GMT 5.5
Windies crush India The West Indies completed a 4-1 rout of India, winning the fifth and final One-Day International by 19 runs at the Queen's Park Oval in Port of Spain, Trinidad, on Sunday.
Set a challenging target of 256, after the home side posted 255 for 6 in their 50 overs, the Indians, despite a painstaking 95 by Virender Sehwag, were bowled out for 236 in 48 overs.
Left-arm spinner Dave Mohammed, playing his first match of the series, and fast bowler Jerome Taylor wrecked the Indian innings, returning figures of 3-39 and 3-48 respectively.
Earlier, the West Indies recovered after a disastrous start thanks to fine knocks from Chris Gayle (51), Ramnaresh Sarwan (52) and man-of-the-match Dwayne Bravo (62).
Ramnaresh Sarwan was adjudged man of the series.
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