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Tendulkar
hits 47th ODI century, helps India pile 338 runs
Sunday February 27, 2011 08:24:23 PM,
IANS
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Bangalore: Batting
maestro Sachin Tendulkar smashed his 47th ODI century as India
amassed a huge 338 in 49.5 overs against England in a Group B
match of the World Cup at the Chinnaswamy Stadium here Sunday.
Tendulkar (120) was superbly assisted by Gautam Gambhir (51) and
Yuvraj Singh (58) as India, for the second consecutive time,
posted a 300-plus score in the 2011 World Cup.
England pacer Tim Bresnan was outstanding and picked up the
wickets of Yusuf Pathan (14), Virat Kohli (8) and Harbhajan Singh
in four balls in the penultimate over to put a brake on India's
run spree. Bresnan finished with figures of five for 48.
Bresnan struck early to get rid of the dangerous Virender Sehwag,
who raced to 35 off 26 balls, after wicketkeeper Matt Prior took a
good one-handed catch.
Tendulkar and Gambhir then joined the party with their 134-run
stand for the second wicket and smashed the England bowlers all
over the park. Tendulkar was aggressive in his approach and set
the tone of his innings with two crisply-timed fours off pace
spearhead James Anderson in the ninth over. His first of five
sixes came against Paul Collingwood, straight over the bowler's
head and he smashed him again over the mid-wicket boundary to
bring his half-century in style.
Tendulkar also came down heavily on spinner Graeme Swann and hit
him for two consecutive sixes in the 27th over and got to his
century by whipping Bresnan for a four down the fine-leg.
Tendulkar's 115-ball knock that was studded with 10 fours and five
sixes came to an end after he gave a leading edge off Anderson and
was taken by Michael Yardy in the covers.
Yuvraj and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (31 of 25 balls) then came
up with a 69 run stand taking India past 300-run target. Yuvraj
struck nine fours in his 50-ball innings while Dhoni struck three
fours and a six.
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