treva
ICC Chairman
India v Guyana - One Day Friendly
A very good looking pitch, with even bounce and a slight bit of turn that will increase during the game. With a lightning fast outfield it looked like the captain that wins the toss would bat first.
Well Dravid got down to the middle and chose tails. The coin landed down on tails and he instantly chose to bat to bat on a very flat track against a rather weak bowling attack. The team for the game is as follows:
Instantly the two Indian openers, Dravid and Uthappa started off quickly out of the blocks and smashed to 50 in just 9.2 overs. The 2nd powerplay was taken after 10 overs with the score on 53-0 and India cruising. Then after 11.4 overs uthappa got caught playing back to spinner McGarell and was hit on the pad in front of the stumps and in-line. The umpires finger stayed down and it seemed uthappa and got the bit of look he was looking for to enable him to kick on and make a big score. But 5 balls alter Uthappa was gone, caught behind by Christian off the bowling of King for 20. He had never really looked that settled and headed back to the pavilion with a disappointing total. Gambhir was next in and a good 2nd powerplay for Guyana picking up 14-1 in the 5 overs. The 3rd powerplay was instantly taken and Droved picked up his 50 from just 61 balls. At the end of the three powerplays the score had moved onto 95-1 with 28 runs coming off the 5 overs. The 100 came up 3 overs later and then came a steady period in the proceedings. Gambhir brought up his 50 in style with a nice cover drive to hit 53* off just 53 balls. 4 overs later skipper Rahul Dravid brought up his 100 from a very good 121 balls. The 200 came up in 38 overs but just an over and one ball later, Dravid was run out by Crandon on 116 from 137 balls including 15 fours and a six. This brought to a close a 2nd wicket partnership of 145. This gave Yuvraj Singh some overs to make a decent score, but he didn't take the chance and was bowled by Crandon for 3 from 9 balls and only stayed at the crease 9 minutes. Now Raina had a chance to flourish with the bat for 8 overs. the 250 came up in 46 overs and Gambhir brought up a marvellous century 2 balls alter hitting it off only 89 balls. Gambhir and Raina pulled the score up to 295-3 off their 50 overs, which looked to be a very strong total and seemed almost impossible for guyana to make it.
A very good looking pitch, with even bounce and a slight bit of turn that will increase during the game. With a lightning fast outfield it looked like the captain that wins the toss would bat first.
Well Dravid got down to the middle and chose tails. The coin landed down on tails and he instantly chose to bat to bat on a very flat track against a rather weak bowling attack. The team for the game is as follows:
Instantly the two Indian openers, Dravid and Uthappa started off quickly out of the blocks and smashed to 50 in just 9.2 overs. The 2nd powerplay was taken after 10 overs with the score on 53-0 and India cruising. Then after 11.4 overs uthappa got caught playing back to spinner McGarell and was hit on the pad in front of the stumps and in-line. The umpires finger stayed down and it seemed uthappa and got the bit of look he was looking for to enable him to kick on and make a big score. But 5 balls alter Uthappa was gone, caught behind by Christian off the bowling of King for 20. He had never really looked that settled and headed back to the pavilion with a disappointing total. Gambhir was next in and a good 2nd powerplay for Guyana picking up 14-1 in the 5 overs. The 3rd powerplay was instantly taken and Droved picked up his 50 from just 61 balls. At the end of the three powerplays the score had moved onto 95-1 with 28 runs coming off the 5 overs. The 100 came up 3 overs later and then came a steady period in the proceedings. Gambhir brought up his 50 in style with a nice cover drive to hit 53* off just 53 balls. 4 overs later skipper Rahul Dravid brought up his 100 from a very good 121 balls. The 200 came up in 38 overs but just an over and one ball later, Dravid was run out by Crandon on 116 from 137 balls including 15 fours and a six. This brought to a close a 2nd wicket partnership of 145. This gave Yuvraj Singh some overs to make a decent score, but he didn't take the chance and was bowled by Crandon for 3 from 9 balls and only stayed at the crease 9 minutes. Now Raina had a chance to flourish with the bat for 8 overs. the 250 came up in 46 overs and Gambhir brought up a marvellous century 2 balls alter hitting it off only 89 balls. Gambhir and Raina pulled the score up to 295-3 off their 50 overs, which looked to be a very strong total and seemed almost impossible for guyana to make it.
nice presentation Treva 
not looking good for the guyanians.
I think Guyana might pull a win taking advantage of our team chemistry!
