Match 2 of Tri-Series: India Crush Pakistan! Huge Defeat!

India stopped the winning streak of Pakistan! India famous for stopping these kinds of records, once again proved that they are on top.

Deciding to bat first, India posted a mamooth total of 330. It looked like they were continuing their form from the IPL's T20.

Gambhir and Sehwag added 155 for the first wicket, though Sehwag survived a close caught behind, which the TV replay showed Kamran Akmal picked the ball from the ground.

Sehwag scored 89 off 76 balls with 13 fours and a six. He won both the man of the match and the award for fastest fifty scoring in 42 balls.

Gambhir scored run-a-ball of 62 runs with 6 fours. Yuvaraj Singh who bagged the award for scoring maximum sixes, scored 55 off 54 balls with 3 fours and 3 sixes.

Yousuf Pathan and Rohit were not able to score much on the slow wicket. Dhoni scored a quick 24 with 5 fours and Raina fired two good sixes. Wahab Riaz was the costly bowler conceding 86 in his 10 overs picking 2 wickets. The bowling attack was not that decent as Pakistan gave away 38 runs in extras including 20 wides and 9 no balls.

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Chasing 331, from the beginning, Pakistan was on the back foot. Praveen Kumar rattled the top order and picked all the first 4 wickets. He picked his first two wickets in the successive balls to send Salman Butt, caught brilliantly at short cover by Rohit. He dived to his left to take an one-handed stunning catch! Next ball, Younis Khan trying to steer it to third man, took outside edge and was caught behind.

Yousuf was judged leg before off Praveen and Kamran Akmal was caught at mid on by Yousuf Pathan.

Shoaib Malik, the skipper was in the field alone fighting the Indian bowling attack. He scored 53 off 67 balls with 3 fours and a six. Shahid Afridi, who did not see much success in IPL, should have played a sensible innings. He threw his wicket by stepping out of Piyush Chawla, who bowled well to get him stumped. He then took a godo return catch to send Tanvir back to pavilion.

Praveen Kumar and Piyush Chawla picked 4 wickets each while Ishanth Sharma and Yuvaraj Singh picked 1 each.

Match Details:

Trophy: Kitply Cup - Tri-Series in Bangladesh
Match #: 2
Venue: Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
Date: June 10, 2008
Teams: India and Pakistan
Captains: Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Shoaib Malik
Toss: India won the toss and decided to bat
Result: India won by 140 runs
Man of the Match: Virendra Sehwag of India
Score:

India 330 for 8 in 50 overs (G Gambhir 62, V Sehwag 89, Yuvaraj Singh 57, YK Pathan 3, RG Sharma 9, MS Dhoni 24, SK Raina 26, IK Pathan 18, P Kumar 6 not out, PP Chawla 0 not out, Extras--38 (b 5, lb 4, w 20, nb 9), Umar Gul 10-0-61-3, Sohail Tanvir 9.4-0-57-1, Wahab Riaz 9.2-0-86-2, Iftikhar Anjum 10-0-63-0, Shahid Afridi 10-0-52-2, Younis Khan 1-0-2-0) beat Pakistan 190 all out in 35.4 overs (Salman Butt 9, Kamran Akmal 38, Younis Khan 0, Mohammad Yousuf 11, Misbah-ul-Haq 24, Shoaib Malik 53, Shahid Afridi 23, Sohail Tanvir 6, Umar Gul 7, Iftikhar Anjum 16 not out, Wahab Riaz 0, Extras--3 (lb 3), P Kumar 9-1-53-4, I Sharma 6-0-28-1, IK Pathan 6-0-38-0, PP Chawla 8.4-0-40-4, Yuvaraj Singh 4-0-17-1, YK Pathan 2-0-11-0)

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