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India's woes continue, lose to Pakistan
Monday December 31, 2012 08:50:08 AM,
IANS
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Chennai: The Indian
cricket team capped off the year with another loss, going down by
six wickets to Pakistan in the first ODI between the two sides at
the Chepauk here Sunday.
India, put in to bat in trying conditions, managed 227 for six,
largely thanks to a superlative unbeaten century from captain
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (113 not out).
Nasir Jamshed (101 not out) and Younis Khan (58) made light work
of the chase as Pakistan scored 228 for four with 11 balls to
spare.
Things though could have been different for the hosts had they
held on to the catches and if a few decisions had gone their way.
Nevertheless, it was a ruthless performance from a Pakistan side
boasting of many youngsters.
Pakistan's chase got off to the worse possible start as they lost
Mohammad Hafeez on the very first ball of their innings.
Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, who impressed in the two-match Twenty20 series
a few days ago, again gave India the breakthrough with an
inswinging delivery.
With the new ball jagging around, Pakistan batsmen were put under
tremendous pressure. Azhar Ali, playing his 12th ODI, failed to
handle the pressure and lobbed an easy catch to Rohit Sharma off
the bowling of Bhuvaneshwar Kumar.
With Pakistan reeling at 21 for two, in walked Younis Khan and
showed his experience stringing a match-winning 112-run
partnership with Jamshed.
India removed Younis and skipper Misbah-ul-Haq (16) to put the cat
among the pigeons. Jamshed too could have been dismissed but a
rare dropped catch from Yuvraj Singh gave him another chance.
Lady luck was with the visitors as Shoaib Malik (34 not out) was
caught behind on a no-ball. After that the Pakistani batsmen
didn't leave anything to chance and slowly but surely reached the
target without any more hiccups.
Earlier India made a disastrous start to their innings but were
rescued by a heroic innings from Dhoni.
India crumbled to 29 for five by the 10th over, with four batsmen
being bowled by pacer Junaid Khan.
Mohammed Irfan (1/58) and Junaid Khan (4/43) took advantage of a
fairly green wicket and damp and moist conditions in the morning
to rattle the Indian top-order.
Their excellent opening spells saw India's five top-order batsmen
-- Gautam Gambhir (8), Virender Sehwag (4), Virat Kohli (0),
Yuvraj Singh (2) and Rohit Sharma (4) -- fail to get into double
figures.
However, from thereon, Suresh Raina (43) and Dhoni tried to
stabilise the innings and struck a slow but steady 73-run
partnership to get the hosts out of trouble.
After steadying the ship, Raina also departed when he was bowled
by spinner Mohammed Hafeez with the score reading 102/6 in the
34th over.
In came local boy Ravichandran Ashwin (31 not out) who struck a
record unbeaten seventh wicket partnership of 125 runs off 100
balls with his skipper to see India past the 200-mark. This was
India's best seventh wicket partnership so far.
Dhoni displayed his big-hitting prowess in the death overs
destroying the figures of Irfan and Junaid. He hit seven
boundaries and three sixes, including one to reach his eighth ODI
ton.
Despite tiring out, he stuck there eventually taking his team to a
fighting total.
This was India's final match of a year that has seen them win just
two series -- an ODI series against Sri Lanka and a Test series
win over New Zealand.
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