Story India's Journey To WCup,Special Edition-Johnnie Walker is back!

[formula1man]

great story mate, heaps better than mine. come on India

 

[gamerkid22]

Poor Poor Poor batting display by India. SA bowled those yorkers brilliantly to get rid of most of the Indian batsmen. SA are winning this match comfortably. Hey wait a close finish will be there

Great work as usual mate

 

[PhilD123]

Really poor batting display from India, the middle order showed no fight and thats where the innings crashed. India need to start well with the ball, but it looks nowhere near enough and South Africa are firm favourites.

Great work Suren!

 

[SciD]

Your story is truly inspirational for young writes like me. I think this one should be stickied.

 

[jarl]

Bad total by India, hopefully there bowlers are up to the challenge as South Africa will be looking to attack from the start

Awesom graphics with that run out :happy BRILLIANT

 

[Karachi Xpress]

Your story is truly inspirational for young writes like me. I think this one should be stickied.

Has to be SOTM for sticky

 

[icyman]

Good yorkers from the Proteas.Indian bowling needs to work wonders here.

 

[surendar]

L I V E​

India In SouthAfrica
India Vs SouthAfrica
First ODI Match(D/N),Johannesburg.
Analysis of Indian Innings.

India Vs SA,First ODI ~ Analysis Show

( With Ravi Shastri and Wasim Akram )​

: Hello and a welcome back to this Show, "Waz and Shaz" where we do have Wasim Akram with us as usual to have the discussions of this first innings of the first ODI match.

: Well Wasim, what is running in your mind after seeing the Indian batting performance?

: It's really a poor batting display from Indians today. Pitch predicted a high scoring game.. as Hard and flat pitch always helps batsmen. But today, I was taken by surprise after seeing this performance!

: Also, we cannot deny that their bowling was of top class at the same time. With yourself being the one of the greatest bowlers of all times, how do you rate today's SA bowling?

: The teams like Australia, SouthAfrica, England and Kiwis, most of the times, come out with great bowling performances in their home grounds. These are the conditions which we subcontinent players tend to struggle a bit to adjust and bat accordingly. Except Tendulkar & Dravid, no one had that patience to adjust and tune themselves accordingly.

: Both Tendulkar & Dravid definitely should have known this factor from their cricketing experience. We also saw another experienced batsman, Sourav trying to stay rooted for long time. And in other end, youngsters remained impatient.

: In particular, batsmen like Dhoni and Yuvraj had to shoulder these responsibilities and play a matured game considering future of their cricket in the minds.

: Also Wasim, another common thing we noticed with some Indian players( especially Dravid and Sourav ), running between the wickets is not that good enough.

Running Flaw from Indian Batsmen!

When will players like Dravid learn to ground their bats while running rather than trying to sacrifice their wickets ???​

: Ravi, this really makes me to think, how these players have played in their domestic levels? A basic mistakes like these should have been corrected in domestic level itself. For any batsman, to run without trying to stretch and ground their bat is definitely a poor thing to do.

: That too, for Dravid, it happens frequently. Some others like Ganguly and VVS Laxman also tend to run like the similar manner. They are always known for their bad running between the wickets.

: This is one of the areas where, Sachin Tendulkar is still at his best. I still see him as the fastest runner between the wickets even at the age of 30+.

: Well, we spoke about the top class bowling earlier. Coming back to that again, which bowler had impressed you Wasim?

: To be frank, all the bowlers did a good job. The one which impressed me is, Nel. His line and length and accuracy and aggressiveness made the job of batsmen even more tough.

: This is how his bowling has went today,

Nel Vs India.

: As I mentioned, it's really impressive. Having bowled nearly 9 overs, he just gave away 20 runs and also managed to get three wickets!

: It included the crucial dismissal of Dravid too. Also other magnificent thing is, all the three wickets were obtained from three magical yorkers.

: In particular, the yorker which got rid of Dravid was really a magical one. As a bowler, I really like to bowl such types especially in end overs. He came back in his last spell with more accuracy and delivered some fantastic yorkers and denied Indian batsmen, a good score on their board.

: Yes Wasim, with Dravid settling down nicely, I personally espected something like 220 which would have been some good score to defend. Anyways Wasim, it's time to get back to the studio to watch the LIVE actions of Indian bowling now. What do you think Wasim?

: The very first 15 Overs are going to be crucial. If bowlers manage to pick 3-4 wickets in those crucial overs, definitely, India do have a good chance to defend this score. But with lights ON, the ball should be coming bit more nicely onto the bat in this innings than the first innings.

: We have to wait and see how this contest turns up. We will be back again to this show after the match finishes. Till then, Bye from the Studio.

: Bye

: On an extra note, before leaving this show, here comes a small segment, " Do You know " bringing you some facts about cricket to the Viewers. After that, do join us for all the LIVE actions from Johannesburg to see this low total run chase. Can Dravid and his men defend such a low score or it would be a easy cake walk for Smith's men? Stay Tuned to watch it!

Some Cricket Facts for Viewers.

* No one has ever scored 4 successive one-day centuries. Herschelle Gibbs scored 3 successive centuries, and was on 97* when South Africa needed 4 to win. Alok Kapali bowled a wide which went for 4, and Gibbs was denied the record by the tiniest of margins!

* Mick Lewis (Aus) has been the most expensive bowler in Johannesburg giving 113 Runs from 10 Overs against SouthAfrica. That day was one of the greatest days in ODI cricket. The series between Australia and South Africa was tied 2-2 after Australia had won the last two matches before this game, to make the game on that day the deciding game. Australia opened the batting and blew the South African bowling to shreds. Australian captain Ricky Pointing made 164 of just 105 balls to steer the Aussies, with the help of other quick fire innings to a massive total of 434, the highest ODI score at the time. South Africa had their backs to the wall and their only option was to come out blazing. Graeme Smith set the pace of the match by scoring 92 from just 60 odd balls. Enter Herschelle Gibbs. He played a magnificent innings, outscoring Pointing by scoring massive individual total of 175 of just 111 balls. The end was tight. South Africa needed 9 to win off the last over. Boucher finished proceedings with a glorious four over midwicket. South Africa won the game by one wicket. South Africa ended with a score of 438/9. The 434 and 438 totalled to 876 runs, making this match the highest scoring one-day international in history.

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[Ollie_H]

Suren you are amazing!! That analysis with nel's bowling is imense!

 

[Jaztheman]

This is still going?

Fantastic work as you normally do Suren, best on Planetcricket imo, you keep on at the same rate all the time which is extraordinary. Consistent, amazing writing and the graphics to top it off. Sensational.

Would rep you but I need to spread.

 

[Highlander999]

All I can say is WOW. That update I think is your best yet. The facts at the end were really interesting. Words fail me to thank you for making this such a good read

 

[OrderDX]

amazing analysis mate loving every part of this story as usual!

 

[domiw]

I still havn't seen him being run out yet??

 

[Karachi Xpress]

Amazing! Great work!

 

[Roofrom50]

ha ha this is absolutely brilliant i must say.