Ajantha Mendis and Muthiah Muralitharan ran through the Indian batting order at claiming six wickets in the first ODI at Dambulla.Along with the help of their pace men they shot out India for 146. Mendis and Murali shared 6 wickets.
For India Yuvraj Singh was the top scorer with 23. The debutant Kohli performance was as unimpressive as his performance in the IPL. The rest of the batsmen followed the familiar pattern of getting a reasonable start only to succumb weakly.
India:
Fall of wickets:
1-0 (Gambhir), 2-23 (Kohli), 3-36 (Raina), 4-73 (Yuvraj), 5-75 (Sharma), 6-87 (Dhoni), 7-87 (Pathan), 8-107 (Zaheer), 9-117 (Harbhajan), 10-146 (Patel).
5 comments:
Am enjoying the horror show... Mendis is now like chaki the doll in childplay... his mere presence can give the Indian team loose motion for the entire series.
Scorpi,
I foresee a lot of squeaky bum moments. :)
Like I said before "If Murali doesnt get u Mendis will"
The tail enders contributed 55 runs which shows that throwing the bat around may succeed. They can put two tailenders in the middle overs when M an M operate and ask them to go for them If they succeed in consuming overs and scoring some runs it will be fine.
R,
What if Mahela holds back M&M when tail enders become middle order batsmen?
We can hold back our great middle order tailenders.
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