Sunday, June 27, 2010

The Asian Champs!

After a controversial series in Zimbabwe,the Indian cricket team came up strongly to clinch the Asia cup.The team this time had all the senior and the regular players except the one,Yuvi. Under Mahi's captaincy they all actually did a decent job,that made them to win the Asia cup after 15 years.This is a huge win and the country will not forget this win..There had a match where,India had to face Pakistan in one of the Asia cup encounter and this match promised all the actions,a perfect India-pak encounter..Pakistan making India to chase 268 approx,India chasing it successfully,This was done almost in the last over with Bhajji hitting over the Top for a six and India winning with three balls to spare,certainly Singh was King that day,and Raina too changing the coarse of the match..India did come up well in the whole tournament,by losing just one game prior to the finals and that game saw Maharoof taking a hat rick against the Indians,and never mind Indians came strong to win the finals,the seamers set the floor for India,India making 268 in the finals with major contribution coming from Karthik,making 66 and all the other batsman contributing in 30's and 40's,Indian seamer's did bowl well to contain the Srlankan top order and at one stage they were 72/5,India pulled off an easy 81 run victory over the Lankans.. and this would be remembered for a long time! well done India!

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Tri series flunk!!

The Micro max mobile tri-series that had India,Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.. Saw some poor cricket from the Indian cricket players!with the selectors testing the bench strength by resting the senior players,that never worked!India losing back to back matches with Zimbabwe,and winning one match with srilanka, saw only Rohit Sharma hitting a couple of centuries in the series,Well what's happening? India scoring 283 against Zim in one of the games,saw Indians were unable to defend the total,Indian bowlers never had a clue against the Zim Batsman..This led the Indian team to lose another game against Zim,Indians scored just 194 and it was an Easy chase for Zim!They made it as quick as possible gaining the bonus point!With the world coming up just an year ahead,Testing the bench strength is one of the funniest things!