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

[Cricket_60]

I reckon the game is still in the balance, the Indian bowlers might stuggle to get wickets on this pitch. The Windie's also have Lara, Gayle, Ramdin and Hinds who are all top class batsmen if they fire

 

[sohum]

Maan, Hinds really surprising all, eh?

 

[surendar]

Thats Why Everyone Call Him A " Master "!!!

Sachin was extremely disappointed with Pathan and Agarkar!!! He was left all alone in the crease with more responsibilities!!! When Kumble came in... He told clearly that not to sacrifice the wicket!!! Kumble was very watchful!!!

Infact first few overs after Kumble came, he didnot even face a single ball!!! Sachin kept strike for many overs!!! To prevent this,Lara set a wide spread fielding in such a way that singles are easy to come!!! Lara wanted Kumble to face... But Sachin did not take the risk of giving Kumble the strike very early in the over!!!! He faced 4/5 balls and took single in the last!!! Sachin was very clear in this strategy... Even if the ball was hit near the boundary...Sachin did not run!!!

SACHIN HANDLING THE PRESSURE SINGLE HANDEDLY...

The bad deliveries were punished.... Hinds was punished by Sachin with two huge sixes!!!! Really the master was going all over... He had punished Hinds again and again!!!! Now the arena is exciting.... Windies fans always enjoying the cricket music... Indian fans are dancing and enjoying the fire works of Sachin!!!!

EXCITEMENT WIDESPREAD....

The master reached his 150 and raised his bat towards the crowd!!! Lara is really not able to put brakes to Sachin's innings!!!! Lara can only watch Sachin going all over!!!! When Kumble came to crease, Sachin was 133 and the score was 333 but now, Sachin is 152 and the score is 357... This shows that he is handling the pressure single handedly!!!! Kumble faced 13 balls for his four runs!!!!

SACHIN BRINGS HIS 150

So the happiness is seen in everyone's face in Indian dressing room!!! Now the platform is well set... But still some more work to do for getting 400 runs!!! Windies bowlers operated were Edawards,Gayle and Hinds!!!! Edwards was outstanding with his bouncers!!! But the bowler who was punished by Sachin was Hinds!!!!

INDIA : 357/7 (12.26 pm)

Sachin : 152(221)
Kumble : 4(13)

 

[surendar]

SACHIN FROM 12.26pm to 12.36pm

12.26 - 12.31 pm​

The over belonged to Gayle. The field was set up in such a way that there were 5 men near the boundary... 2 in legside, 2 in offside and 1 in straight!!!! And 4 fielders were placed near him by Lara expecting a catch!!!!

The first ball Gayle bolwed was severely punished by the master. He swept that strongly and it bisected the two fielders in the boundary and went one bounce to the rope for a four!!! Gayle was disappointed a bit!!!!

The second and third delivery were bowled well and Sachin played it defensively.

SACHIN PLAYING MIND GAME WITH LARA

The Fourth delivery was punished to four again... This time Sachin went for the similar sweep shot... He always plays the sweep shot well!!!! He took single in the fifth delivery!!! Then Kumble playing a defence in the last.
So 9 runs were scored in that over and the total reached 366.

12.31 - 12.36 pm​

Lara brought the bowling change of Edwards. He took off Hinds!!! :cool: The keeper behind the stumps looked very tired!!! Sachin was facing Edwards!!!

The first ball was a noball. Sachin any how hit that to thirdman area but no run taken as he was very sure that Kumble should not face this pace of Edwards.

The second and third ball were beautifully bowled moving away from Sachin... Edwards was able to move even in this situation!!! Sachin attacked the fourth ball and was punished to straight four!!!Edwards just stares at Sachin.

But the return was superb in next two balls. He bowled a short delivery and the delivery swinging in. Sachin was not able to pick single. He was not happy.

Kumble is on strike for the next over... Here is the golden chance opened for Windies. Windies are aiming to finish the tail enders before lunch!!!!

INDIA : 371/7

 

[PhilD123]

Tendulkar is on fire, I think Kumble will manage to get through to lunch with the master.

 

[surendar]

GAYLE STRIKES....

It was a nice platform where Sachin was firing form one end. But he was not able to take the strike this over becos of Edwards's good bowling in last over. This turned as a big opportunity for Windies.

Lara had confidence in Gayle. He set the attacking field. Sachin had a long chat with Kumble. Kumble got ready to face Gayle now.

Gayle bolwed a superb line and turned slightly in and Kumble was trapped for LBW.... There was a loud shout from the players but Gayle was confident enough that he started celebrating the wicket without seeing the umpire decision.

KUMBLE TRAPPED BY GAYLE FOR LBW

Kumble was disappointed and also Sachin. But that was an exceptionally superb line... its nothing wrong with Kumble... But the ball tricked Kumble...He walks back to the pavillion with four runs for his name. But the partnership was a better one and was around 40 runs!!! So kumble have done his level best to stay with master... But these twists and turns are quite common in cricket...

SREESANTH JOINS SACHIN

Sreesanth arrives at the crease replacing Kumble... It will be interesting to see whether India will manage to get 400 with stable master in one end and rapid falling tailenders at the other end!!!! So the pressure is still increasing on the little master!!!

INDIA : 371/8

 

[gamerkid22]

nice story surender India should get 400 as Master Blaster is still there

 

[ZoraxDoom]

Sreesanth can hang around for a bit. Two 29* already in his brief career shows that.

 

[sohum]

Come on Sreesanth! I want to see Sachin get to 200, and Dravid not declare while he's in the 190s!

 

[surendar]

INDIA DECLARES AT LUNCH....​

The last 30 minutes were extremly exciting one for India!!! Sachin really fired at every one!!! However his favourite remaining the same Hinds!!! Hinds was brought back by Lara after Kumble goes to pavillion!!!!

The first ball was pitched outside off stump...So he let that go... But the next three balls were amazing with two consecutive sixes and a one bounce four!!! Lara really wasnt able to do anything other than watching the ball going over!!!

However Edwards gained some respect from Sachin... Then Hinds was taken off and Gayle was introduced... From here till the lunch...i.e for last three overs, Sachin showed his young master blaster abilities....

FIREWORKS NEVER ENDED TILL LUNCH...

Well the Lunch came and India exactly crossed 400 with a boundary and Dravid made a declaration!!! Sachin remained 195*. Dravid could have waited for Sachin's double ton... but the reason for declaration remains as a question mark???Everyone believes 400 is their target to achieve.... This is a second time Dravid is declaring when Sachin is on 195... He already did it against Pakistan and Now against Windies....

WINDIES PLAYERS WALKING WITH HEADS DOWN...

Well, the players walked back to dressing room.... Indian players cud have a satisfied lunch now.... Windies need to plan well for a strong reply!!!! Its going to be interesting for India with four specialist fast bowlers and Kumble which sounds a strong bowling attack...If Windies are going to be watchful then they are safe!!!!

The match will resume after Lunch.... FOURTH UMPIRE with more detailed analysis of today's morning session is likely to be followed shortly...

INDIA : 403/8 dec.
Sachin : 195*
Sreesanth : 1*

 

[ashu2411]

No! Not again with Sachin.

 

[hondeyho]

Silly Dravid, let Tendulkar get his double ton then walk off the pitch

THEN walk off the pitch not, walk off the pitch and THEN let Tendulkar get 200

West Indies have a mountain to climb - a rather large one at that.

 

[sohum]

Aaaargh, surendar!!

 

[MWaugh]

haha unlucky to sachin. 400 is going to be a big target. hopefully lara can fire

 

[surendar]

LIVE​

FOURTH UMPIRE (DAY2,LUNCH)
( WITH RAVI SHASTRI AND IAN BISHOP )

R.S : Welcome to the Fourth umpire!!! It has been a exciting session for Indians where plenty of runs scored and also it was a magnificent knock by the little master!!!! We will be discussing all the details here... Gud day Bishop, wht is ur view on today's morning session??

I.B : Gud day, Ravi!!! I enjoyed the session very much!!! Bad day for Windies till now!!! Yesterday Indians were 271 and now at lunch they reached 400!!! Around 130 runs were scored in one session... But the credit fully goes to Sachin who batted exceptionally well.

R.S : Yep Bishop, he batted magnificently...but the declaration was a bit suprise by Dravid as Sachin was on 195... Everyone expected a double ton from him....

This is what Sachin said to us when we personally met him just few minutes ago,

I.B : Thats interesting to hear, so this shows his team spirit... thats great... Also, its nice to hear that Indians are preplanned and are going according to some strategy!!!

R.S : Also, he didnt get a stable support from the other end, where Pathan and Agarkar returned to pavillion in five minutes. Then Kumble gave some support for around 40 runs!!! The part time bolwers did the job well against the tailenders!!!

I.B : yep Ravi, though Hinds got 4 wickets, my choice wud be Gayle who bolwed exceptionally well. He maintained a disciplined line and length...Even Sachin was struugling to get runs freely aginst Gayle.

R.S : Also, the wicket of Kumble was a superb dekivery by Gayle!!! That is similar to Sehwag's dismissal...Almost the same line!!! Lets have a look at it,

KUMBLE's WICKET BY GAYLE

I.B : You can see there that the ball is going to hit the stumps for sure!!! Thats a nice delivery to tailenders. But After that, Gayle did not find much chance to bowl to tailenders as Sachin cleverly rotated the strike!!!

R.S : That was a good strategy by Sachin to keep the tail enders off the strike to a maximum extent. But Edwards was bowling well too!! Sachin struggled a bit to get rins off him!!! He was partially successful against Edwards... But at the same time he did not even attempt to go at him taking risks!!! Here is the last over by Edwards to Sachin which was bowled just few minutes before lunch,

EDWARDS's BRILLIANT OVER OF THE INNNINGS

I.B : I remeber that over... Infact it was the best over of the innings!!! He was also bowling above 145Kmph!!!He really threatened Sachin that over and Sachin just managed to get only a single that over.

R.S : Gaye and Edwards bowled well... This means Master has got most of his runs against W.Hinds I observed a little excitement in Sachin's face whenever Hinds was bowling to him......This is what the stats of Sachin against Hinds shows,

AMAZING AGAINST HINDS!!!

I.B : You can see there very clearly that most of the runs were scored against Hinds!!! 5 out of 6 sixes and 8 out of 19 fours were scored against Hinds!!! Hinds must see this becos his bowling was poor against Sachin.

R.S : But Hinds was the top wicket taker in Windies for this innings. But in the last session his bolwing improved a lot... what do u think?

I.B : no, he was bowling well only aginst the Pathan,Agarkar and Kumble... i.e to Tailenders and the delivery to Dhoni was a good one as he varied the pace exceptionally well!!! I dont think that he boewled that well against Sachin!!!

R.S : And this is what our stats for Hinds against tail enders and Sachin shows,

HINDS BOWLING MAP

I.B : There u can see that lot of deliveries wer bowled moving away from the leg stump area where Sachin punished those to couple of big sixes!!! So its a bad bowling to Sachin by Hinds!!!

R.S : I think Sachin was playing really a mind game with Hinds that forced him to commit mistakes!!! Hinds wont forget that he was smashed by Sachin all over including five big sixes!!!

I.B : Sachin not only played a mind game with Hinds but also with Lara indirectly!!! Lara was clueless most of the times!!!

R.S : :cool:
Now this is spider graph of Sachin,

SACHIN's OVERALL PERFORMANCE

I.B : Thats an amazing stats!!! He scored runs in all the directions making the fielders run all over the ground!!! This is the pure quality and infact a prefect Master quality!!!! :cool:

R.S : : Thats a wonderful graph any batsmen like to have!!! This is Sachin at his best!!! This should be the very strong return of the master as he was some problems with the injuries... We are now able to see the old firing Sachin!!!

I.B : Thats true!!!

R.S : Ok Bishop,i think its time to get back to the match!!! So summarizing the final scores at Lunch,

INDIA's FINAL SCORE

R.S : One Final question, where do u think that this match is heading towards?

I.B : its sure, India has the upperhand over Windies!!! If Windies are going to play a watchful innings, then situations may turn a bit!!!

R.S : Thts true, So lets see how Windies repond to this big score!!! As usual, The first one hour after Lunch might tell us the half part of the story!!! So its going to be a interesting session comming up..... Enjoy the match and we will get back to u again at end of the day for more analysis... Till then Gud Bye!!!

I.B : Bye :cool: