Dashing Opener David Warner along with Tim Paine took their positions. RP Singh along with MS Dhoni was setting the field. Then took place the event of first ball where the ball was trashed to boundary over RP Singh. RP Singh changed his angle and started bowling round the wicket from the second ball itself. The second ball was a single and Tim Paine got the strike. He just took a single and gave Warner strike again. Warner, who hit the ball to the longest end, took two runs with ease. The third one was rejected by Paine. From then on, he scored nothing till he faced 9 balls. The 10th ball he faced, he tried to take a risky single when he missed the ball. Dhoni, who failed to run out Paine threw it to the non stirkers end. The umpire Daryl Harper just sent it upstaris to third Umpire Billy Bowden. Billy signaled that it was out by giving it out on LED screen.
David Warner, an agressive opener was walking towards the pavilion for 7 runs.
Then came it the captain of Australia, Ricky Ponting. His innings was crucial as if he failed to score runs, there were only two to three batsmen, who were experienced on Sub Continent pitches. He played slowly in the begining and later on, picked up some boundaries with 2 over it. While Ricky was playing, RP Singh appealed very confidently for an LBW decision which was given. Paine started walking. It was Tim Paine, who was out for 4 runs. Then came in Mr Cricket Mike Hussey. Huss started off agressively. Ponting was agressive at times but it was Huss, who was agressive right from the beginning. The duo scored two runs along with a ton of runs for their partnership.
Meanwhile, it was Harbhajan Singh, who was handed over the ball with a objective of restricting the runs. Bhajji not only bowled economically but he even took three crucial wickets including the agressive guy at the crease, Huss.
He was at crease when he was at 58. He hit a six when he was at 58 which fetched him six runs. The very next ball he faced was a tricky one and thinking that it'd be a wide, he left the ball which turned out to hit the stumps where Harbhajan Singh celebrated his first of the three.
Then came in Andrew Symonds, whose main objective at that time was to fulfil the work of Huss.
Alothugh he scored more than run a ball, but he din't stick on to crease much time.
His IPL team mate Pragyan Ojha picked him. It was wonderful effort by Yuvraj Singh in taking that catch by standing at Gully point. He (Yuvi) dived to his right side wth great difficult as he was a southpaw, and took a catch which made total Chinnaswami stand up and appreciate.
Then came in the IPL locatist, Cameroon White. A great cheer when he walked in but when he scored less than run a ball and gave away his wicket to Harbhajan Singh, Chinnaswami Cheered even loudly.
A ball before Bear got out, it was turn of Ricky Ponting, when RP Singh tempted him to loft the ball when he was at 6 less than a ton.
Ben Rohrer, the Debuctant, with a mind set of "Pressure" as it was his first International match, wlaked onto crease. He seemed as if he was the differentiater after the first ball he had in his International carrier. He lofted the ball and was in a position of sending it outside the boundary with three bounces.
Mitchell Johnson, Nathan Hauritz failed again where as Binga and Nannes came up with 20 and 14 respectively, a well needed end for Australia.
Overall, they managed to get 259 runs off 296 balls as they were bowled out with 4 balls to go.
RP Singh picked up two, Harbhajan picked three, Ojha, Irfan Pathan and Sreesanth picking up one each, and rest two were dismissed by MS Dhoni, Wicketkeeper of India.
Only 5 wides were bowled by India along with a Legbye to Cameroon White.
They ended up giving 6 extras, which is pretty economical now a days.
India Need 260 runs to win from 300 balls
Two Indian Openers, Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag turned up on crease ready for the second innings of the match.
Tendulkar and Sehwag started off well by adding 113 runs from 120 balls.
Then Sehwag got out when he was at 42 from 67 balls with 4 fours and at a rate of 62. Haurtiz was enjoying as he got his man.
Bangloreans were disappointed as they couldn't see Sehwag blitzing. Even, one of the fan of Sehwag, Mr Abhishek Sharma aka Yudi was pretty disappointed of Sehwag. But Tendulkar was on fire and he reached his nervous ninetys. He hit a four when he was at 90. A well risked upper cut by Tendulkar takes him to 94. And then??
What Happened??
A Huge one out of the stadium to make the disappointed fans of Sehwag cheer for Tendulkar's CENTURY..!!
It was the longest six of Tendulkar in his carrier.
Tendulkar, as usually, took out his helmet and first raised hit bat and helmet to his team mates and then the total crowd.
Some fireworks go up as its "
Kartika Maasa Paurnami", a festival of India where we burn crackers.
Then, Gautam Gambhir was bit slow and he even gave away his wicket to Birthday Boy, Mitchell Johnson.
Dhoni and Yuvraj failed as it was Dhoni first, getting out for 13 runs and then it was Yuvraj, who got out for a duck.
Rohit Sharma Came in and supported Tendulkar.
Tendulkar, who was given out when the ball hit the pads of Tendulkar when Dirk Nannes bowled it.
Irfan Pathan, a guy who wanted to perform was sent out when Cameroon White threw a ball, which touched his pads exactly infront of stumps.
The damage for Australia was already over. Now, Indians need 15 runs from 25 balls where Harbhajan and Rohit Sharma finished it off.
The scorecard, of course was this one:-
Code:
INDIA VS AUSTRALIA at Bangalore
50 overs match
INDIA WON THE TOSS AND ELECTED TO BOWL FIRST
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AUSTRALIA innings
Player Status Runs Blls 4s 6s S/R
David Warner run out (Dhoni) 7 10 1 0 70.0%
Tim Paine lbw b. R Singh 4 12 0 0 33.3%
Ricky Ponting c. Y Singh b. R Singh 94 105 10 2 89.5%
Michael Hussey b. H Singh 64 58 7 1 110.3%
Andrew Symonds c. Y Singh b. Ojha 15 12 2 0 125.0%
Cameroon White lbw b. H Singh 10 12 0 0 83.3%
Ben Rohrer lbw b. Sreesanth 11 13 1 0 84.6%
Mitchell Johnson c. Sreesanth b. H Singh 8 23 0 0 34.8%
Brett Lee not out 20 25 1 0 80.0%
Nathan Hauritz c. R Singh b. Pathan 6 13 0 0 46.2%
Dirk Nannes run out (Dhoni) 14 18 2 0 77.8%
Total: 259/10 Overs: 49.2 Run Rate: 5.18 Extras: 6
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INDIA Bowling
Player Overs Mdns Runs Wkts E/R Wds NBs
RP Singh 7.0 0 31 2 4.43 0 0
Irfan Pathan 10.0 0 53 1 5.30 2 0
Sreesanth 9.0 0 49 1 5.44 1 0
Rohit Sharma 4.2 0 22 0 5.08 0 0
Yuvraj Singh 7.0 0 38 0 5.43 0 0
Pragyan Ojha 6.0 0 37 1 6.17 2 0
Harbhajan Singh 5.0 0 16 3 3.20 0 0
Sachin Tendulkar 1.0 0 12 0 12.00 0 0
EXTRAS Wides: 5 No Balls: 0 Leg Byes: 1 Byes: 0
Total: 259/10 Overs: 49.2 Run Rate: 5.18 Extras: 6
INDIA innings
Player Status Runs Blls 4s 6s S/R
Sachin Tendulkar lbw b. Nannes 142 135 17 2 105.2%
Virender Sehwag c. Paine b. Hauritz 42 67 4 0 62.7%
Gautam Gambhir c. White b. Johnson 34 40 0 0 85.0%
MS Dhoni b. Johnson 13 19 1 0 68.4%
Yuvraj Singh c. Lee b. Nannes 0 2 0 0 0.0%
Rohit Sharma not out 14 16 1 0 87.5%
Irfan Pathan lbw b. White 0 1 0 0 0.0%
Harbhajan Singh not out 6 9 1 0 66.7%
Sreesanth
RP Singh
Pragyan Ojha
Total: 261/6 Overs: 48.0 Run Rate: 5.44 Extras: 10
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AUSTRALIA Bowling
Player Overs Mdns Runs Wkts E/R Wds NBs
Dirk Nannes 10.0 0 54 2 5.40 0 0
Brett Lee 8.0 0 41 0 5.13 1 0
Mitchell Johnson 10.0 0 46 2 4.60 0 0
Cameroon White 8.0 0 49 1 6.13 1 0
Nathan Hauritz 8.0 0 42 1 5.25 1 0
Andrew Symonds 2.0 0 11 0 5.50 0 0
Ben Rohrer 2.0 0 11 0 5.50 0 0
EXTRAS Wides: 3 No Balls: 0 Leg Byes: 5 Byes: 2
Total: 261/6 Overs: 48.0 Run Rate: 5.44 Extras: 10
Of course, it was Yudi at Bangalore for post match presentation.
Post Match Presentation:-
Yudi:- Well Bangalore, we witness a great game here today.
In the end, it was India, who managed to win this one after a average start in this series.
Now in PMP, we have Planet Cricket Officials with us.
From me, its Surendar AKA Suren Ram, Moderator for several Threads, Planetcricket. Then next to him, is Barmy Army AKA Colin, one of the administrators of Planetcricket. Finally, we have, Binnu, a member writing India VS Australia Story, Member, Planetcricket. First of all, I;d like to invite Ricky Ponting to share his feelings.
Well Punter, a loss here, how do you rate this loss??
Ricky Ponting:- Hmm... Its a pleasure to lose the game against a team, which has a god in it. I've seen cricketing god hitting a century today. Did you??
Yudi:- Great, what you feel as turning point of match??
Ponting:- Its the toss, which we lost.
Yudi:- Good luck for the upcoming game mate. Thanks for your time here.
Ponting:- Cheers mate, Thanks.
Yudi:- That was Captain of Australia, Ricky Ponting. Now, I'd like to invite MS Dhoni here.
Well, How do you rate this victory mate??
Dhoni:- Its a High class win for us.
Yudi:- How would you rate Sachin's Innings today??
Dhoni:- No words to say that as commenting on god is not encouragable.
Yudi:- Thanks for your time here mate. Good luck for upcoming games.
Dhoni:- Cheers mate, Thanks.
Yudi:- Well Ladies and gentlemen, it was MS Dhoni for you.
Now, I Invite Man of the match, none other than Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar to collect his award in the hands of three VIP's here on stage.
Can we have you here.?
Sachin:- Well, ofcourse.
Yudi:- What are your thoughts on Australian Bowling?
Sachin:- For me, Brett is the only one excellent as of now. The bowlers like Nannes even were good but they need to improve.
Yudi:- I can't ask anymore to you, sir. Good luck for upcoming games.
Sachin:- Cheers mate, Thanks.
Yudi:- Well, that end the post match presentation.
