Barry- oh dear VVS Laxman has runout Ganguly. Ganguly helped india to 84 but a very poor call from vvs laxman run out S Ganguly. In the end ganguly was well short
Alan- Yes barry sourav looks vey disaapointed with laxman sourav was setlling india. now if south africa can get 1 more wicket here they will be back on top
Barry- yes you would think that india 85/3 16ov
Alan- sourav batted really well that should give him confidence to continue batting well but words will be thrown at laxman. awfull call to run
Barry- ohh yuvraj has his off stump disturbed by kallis. what a ball!!!
Alan- yes kallis bowled a good line and lenght delievery and yuvraj could not make up his mind wheather he should play on the front or back foot in the end he was bowled for pace. excellent delievery.
Barry- this wicket puts south afric right back on top and the indians are on pressuer. i bet laxman is wondering why he ran his captain out. lets go back to the studio and see what mark thinks of this. india 90-4 19overs
Mark- well guys this wicket will boost the south africans
Tony- south africa did not panic while ganguly was hitting them all over the park. but the key for the south africans was that they bowled tight to the stumps to laxman, this resulted laxman to get frustrated and he took on a run which wasnt there and he cost india there captain, and for yuvraj he just got beaten by raw pace from kallis
Ravi- yes i agree with tony the south african did not panic and now there in the comfort zone. tis partnership between laxman and dravid is vital if one of them goes then is panic attack for the indians.
Barry-Mostly all of the indian fans have gone quiet now and the south african fans are cheering
Alan- yes the indian fans started to beileve india was going to post a huge target before ganguly got out but 2 quick wickets in 2 overs have not dented there hopes
barry- the pressure is getting to laxman after he ran out his captain. kallis picthed the ball out side off and laxman tried to hit down leg side and he completley misses.
barry- laxman lofts kallis for 4 to bring the 100 for india after 18.4 overs
barry-look this elegant 4 by dravis kallis overpitches and
Dravid out
Barry- ohh my god your not going to beileve this rahul dravid has been runout and again its all laxmans fault he called dravid for the run but there was no way dravid was going outrun shaun pollocks arm. ganguly jumped up in dismay when he saw laxman runout dravid. dravis was playinbg a good knock he hit 4 beautiful boundaries.
Alan- yes the pressure is getting to laxman he ran out his captain and his most consistent player. laxman is on 44 can he save india? Kaif is the next man in then the indian tail follows
Barry- well kaif has just been given out lbw by billy bowden from bowling of nicky boje. boje bowled a superb top spinner which fooled kaif and that was hiitng middle no 2 ways about it. india are now suffering a collapse. india 117/6 after 23 overs.
Alan- yes barry india dont know what has hit them they have lost 4 wickets for the total of 44 runs.
barry- well lets quickly head of to ravi shastri in the crowd and see what they are thinking of this.
Ravi- yes barry i am here with a group indian and south african fans. let me first talk to the indian fans
well your side was at good postion 84/2 now they have slumped 117/6
Indian fan- yes i know we were in a good postion untill laxman runout 2 of our key players but however i still remain optimistic india can win. INDIA ZINDABAD.
Ravi- well the indians are optmistic lets see the south africa fans.
South African fan- yes weve reduced india to 117/6 excellent display by our bowlers at one stage i thought india were running away nicely when they 84/2 but now weve hit them hard and hopefully we can bowl them out under 160-170
Ravi- ok let me hand you over back to our commentators after this quick break.
Interesting story thread this!!! Good coverage!!! Trying changing patches. Ravi's ODI patch looks really unrealistic. I suggest you try Tutsi's Beta-5 in normal level. Or try CGPv3 Beta to be released in the next few days on Hard mode!
Nice idea to have the commentators talk to the fans in the ground. You guyz are so good in coming up with new ideas!!!
Barry- well India Slumped from 84/2 all the way to 165all out. the last 8 wickets went for 81 runs!!!. here is a look at the last 4 wickets that happened
Alan- great efforts by the south africans to reduce a world class tream to 165 all out Laxman played well for his half century but was out straight away after that, he cost his team two vital wickets.
Pathan spooned one straight to silly point
Z khan done exactly the same thing and was out 1st ball
Boje was on a hatrick but balaji hit the hatrick ball for 4
Kumble and Balaji showed resistance for the final wicket but kumble was then out to boje
Here are the bowling and Batting cards
Pick of the bowlers were boje and pollock, boje took 4 wickets in the end and proved the pitch had something for spinners. pollock removed both openers tendulkar and sehwag to leave the indians at 5/2 after 3 overs
Barry-coming up during the break is the indian batting analysis from Mark Nicholas in the studio
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