Story India plays Pakistan in a Home Series!

[SaiSrini]

Hmm....making videos is a great idea. I hope you don't mind if I steal that idea for my thread. :cool:

BTW, as per your suggestion, I have been using the same patch as yours, and it's working out great. Thanx man.

PAKISTAN ZINDABAD!!!

Ur welcome buddy!! I do not have copyright on the idea of videos. So go ahead. Yes, the patch is working out great! Want to see how batting goes. This test match is setting up very nicely.

Try this link now. I am looking for a permanent place to upload my video files

Inzamam's century

Or try this. This is a new Web-a-file service. I am trying this out to see if it helps me make you guys download my video files

Two wickets on Day 2

 

[nightprowler10]

That's pretty cool man, Inzi really smacked Indian bowlers around.

 

[SaiSrini]

Pakistan bowled out for 328!

Finally, India have finished Pakistan's good performance with the bat so far by bowling them out for 328. Pakistan can be proud of this performance a lot even though some of their top order batsman failed! Inzamam came to the rescue with his second century of the series and Youhana ably supported him with a well made 73. After them, Razzaq and Afridi played aggressively to post up 71 and 35 respectively. For India, Zaheer Khan was the chief wicket taker with 3/100. Here are the screenshots of the Pakistan scorecard, Batting Stats, Partnership screen and the Indian bowling stats!



India are about to start this innings in another 10 mins! Stay tuned! This test match is proving to be exciting! Meanwhile, watch the video clip of Razzaq and Afridi's wicket!

Razzaq and Afridi's wicket

India 0/0 | Pakistan 328 a/o​

 

[indiancricketer]

you noe whats gona be cool if you could tape the hole match we could see it and it be more intersting

 

[SaiSrini]

you noe whats gona be cool if you could tape the hole match we could see it and it be more intersting

What? I cant tape the whole match for one obvious reason - when I hit record, the video moves automatically in slow motion even if it is not a replay becoz my computer is not a very high end one to have such seamless recording. And the second reason is -even if i am able to record the whole match, i cant get the space to host the video file. It would be a very large file and there is no good web space host that allows me to host such a big file

 

[Pak_cricketer]

Alright. 328 not bad pakistan has to bowl good.

 

[SaiSrini]

India 28/1 at Lunch

India have lost their first wicket in their quest to score quick runs. Sehwag and Gambhir started off too aggressively and in that, they scored 28 off 4 overs. But Gambhir miscued a lofted on drive shot to be caught by Mohammed Sami at mid wicket for 13. Dravid came in and played sensible cautious cricket and took the Indians through to Lunch!

Gambhir's wicket

India 28/1 (5 overs) | Pakistan 328 a/o​

 

[fardin]

Yes first wicket down hope the second one will be down soon

 

[SaiSrini]

India consolidate the loss of the openers

Mid Session UPDATE:

India have lost Virender Sehwag immediately to the first ball after lunch. Sehwag cover drove a ball and the fielder at cover plunged forward to take a brilliant catch to dismiss Sehwag. Sachin Tendulkar joined Rahul Dravid. But Pakistan bowled more tightly to deny India easy runs. Shoaib Malik in particular was very very tight and has not let India score almost anything off him. He has bowled 7 overs for only 1 run and he is getting enormous amount of turn off the pitch. Playing the spinners on this pitch is really tough and who better than to ask the Indian batsmen about it!

Rahul Dravid 17* off 56 balls
S Tendulkar 25* off 45 balls

Both are playing the way they play now in test matches! Cautious cricket!!

UPDATE at Tea on Day 2:

India have reached 119/2 without any further loss. Sachin Tendulkar is on 43* and Dravid is on 44*. Both have now started scoring off Shoaib Malikbut still runs are hard to come by off the spinners. Afridi and Malik are operating now and Pakistan can hope they pick some wickets to put India on the backfoot!

​

India 119/2 | S Tendulkar 43* | R Dravid 44*​

Watch Virender Sehwag's wicket​

 

[SaiSrini]

India reach 230/4 at the End of Day 2

Day 2 Last session Report:

India have reached 230/4 at the end of Day 2, thanks to some great batting by the genius Sachin Tendulkar again. He came to India's rescue when they were looking dangerous for a collapse. He is not out on 85* and accompanying him is the last specialist batsman, VVS Laxman on 52*.

India started off the last session again in a disastrous manner when Dravid was adjudged LBW to a slightly rising ball from Malik. It seemed every time Pakistan came out of a break, they picked a wicket immediately as Sehwag was out first ball of second session and Dravid was out first ball second session. India were 119/3.

Dravid's wicket

Then came in Ganguly. Then at 123/3, Malik stuck a big blow by bowling Ganguly for nought. Ganguly tried to defend a full delivery and completely missed it to see his stumps rattled. India got into trouble at this stage at 123/4

Ganguly's wicket

VVS Laxman came in and was bowled off a no-ball in his very first ball. Then both Tendulkar and Laxman played very cautiously to bring India back into the game. But they didnt allow the Pakistan bowlers to dictate terms. They kept scoring at a good run rate.

Tendulkar's half century

The last 5 overs produced dramatic moments as Laxman and Tendulkar survived a lot of appeals and deliveries and are now lucky to be out there together! Laxman survived a very close leg before appeal and was dropped when on 48*. Tendulkar survived a leg before appeal off Shahid Afridi when he was on 69* and he was almost stumped when he was on 73* but Akmal missed the ball and the ball went for 4 byes. India can be satisfied with their score of 230/4 but one has to also give credit to Shoaib Malik and Afridi for tightening things up for the Indian batsmen. As it stands now, this test is in a balance and either team can take the lead tomorrow of what promises to be an exciting test match

India 230/4 | S Tendulkar 85* | VVS Laxman 52*​

 

[m_vaughan]

you noe whats gona be cool if you could tape the hole match we could see it and it be more intersting

you are kiddin, arent you? :

 

[SaiSrini]

you are kiddin, arent you? :

I too thought first that he was kidding!!

 

[Insomniac]

we need Rana and Afridi to bowl good to win this thing

 

[SaiSrini]

we need Rana and Afridi to bowl good to win this thing

The thing is, since its the CPU bowling, whenever the spinners bowl an excellent line and tight things up, Mohammed Sami is introduced as a pressure reliever for the Indians to score off. Fast bowlers are very easy to score off on this dusty pitch. Thats why the run rate was 3.5+ . Or else, it could have been 5 or 6 wickets down with less than 200 on the board! Spinners are really hard to score off. Lots of balls hit the pads and were missed! This is the most fun test match I am ever playing. And I am not being aggressive this test match to make things realistic. I do not use the advance shot button (except when its a yorker) and I use the front foot cover drives very rarely as these shots yield too many runs.

 

[borncricketer]

well i think india are kind of in trouble so u will have to bat well so that india can win the second test match. all indian supporters would like another centurry from TENDULKAR. i also hope dhoni plays well and earns his place in the team