India just pip Pakistan

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India just pip Pakistan

By Rob Lancaster Last updated: 14th September 2007

India just pip Pakistan

India celebrate a thrilling win

India defeated rivals Pakistan 3-0 in a bowl-out after the two teams had played out a thrilling tie under lights in Durban.

Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh and Robin Uthappa were on target to give India a victory that means they finish on top of Group D.

Pakistan still go through the next round of the tournament, though they will be wondering just how they failed to win.

Chasing 142, they seemed dead and buried when Shahid Afridi was the sixth wicket to go down, leaving a further 39 off the final 14 deliveries.

However, Yasir Arafat proceeded to belt 10 off the next two balls, and with Misbah-ul-Haq crashing two boundaries at the start of the final over, the scores were tied with two deliveries to go.

Shanthakumaran Sreesanth held his nerve to save the day, though, Misbah (53) being run out off the final ball trying to sneak the match-winning single.

The dramatic end was a fitting finale to a see-saw Twenty20 battle that wasn't even dampened by three breaks for rain.

India had struggled after being put into bat, Mohammad Asif demolishing their top order with four wickets in the opening overs.

It was left to Robin Uthappa, who made 50 off 39 balls, and skipper Dhoni 933) to rebuild the innings with a 46-run partnership.

Irfan Pathan came in at seven to belt a quick 20, including back-to-back sixes off Afridi, as India finished off with a respectable 141-9.

Pakistan's reply suffered a shaky start too, the first four wickets going down with just 47 on the board as seam bowlers enjoyed a sporty pitch juiced up by the showers.

Misbah's late heroics appeared to bail his team out, Ajit Agarkar coming in for some particularly heavy punishment as his final over went for 17.

But an amazing finish left the scores level, and India picked up the points when Pakistan melted under pressure in the bowl-out.

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Posted: 18 years ago
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a nail bitting match.. but i think pak team has made defeat from india as their habbit... 😡 ... they 😡 are loosing from them since 2005... ..they havn't won any match from them in a WC tournament from a long time... i don't care now if pak go to super 4 or wutever.. they shud have won this match..besides i don't really think that they will win the next match.. coz sri lanka are likely to play against them... i m utterly dissapointed in this team... and i have lost all the hopes in them 😕 ...
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Posted: 18 years ago
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both teams played well but I think pakistanio ki kismat kharab thi 😭 I prayed for them but maybe this was good for india as they had be out of tournament if they lost

😭 😭 pakistan zindabad 😭 😭
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Posted: 18 years ago
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yeah credit where its due, both teams did well. Well at least geff lawson now k nows what he got 2 do with the pakistan bowlers, make them hit the stums, i ws actually shocked that gul and afridi missed. Oh well. But peeps dnt loose hope so soon that trophey has got Pakistans name all over it INSHALLAH

PAKISTAN ZINDABAD
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Posted: 18 years ago
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this match rocked seriously!!!!!!!!!!!
such close competition!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted: 18 years ago
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Originally posted by: farah_rehman

yeah credit where its due, both teams did well. Well at least geff lawson now k nows what he got 2 do with the pakistan bowlers, make them hit the stums, i ws actually shocked that gul and afridi missed. Oh well. But peeps dnt loose hope so soon that trophey has got Pakistans name all over it INSHALLAH

PAKISTAN ZINDABAD

its gud to know that u still have a hope in this team..... but what makes u think that pak can win against sril lankans and austrailians?

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Posted: 18 years ago
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Originally posted by: *Fiza*


its gud to know that ustill have a hope in this team..... but what makes u think that pak can win against sril lankans and austrailians?



aare relax yar fiza...depite dis just dont forget dat at 1 stage we ere 103/6...and we still fought back hard..but this hit ball system???..well over india 2 played well and took the points..lets hope for the best in the next matches.. 😛
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Posted: 18 years ago
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yea...congo india..
heres another article:


India beat Pakistan 3-0 in a five-ball bowl-out at three stumps after the crucial Twenty20 World Cup Group D game in Durban ended in a tie on Friday.

Chasing India's modest total of 141 for 9, Pakistan made a late charge to finish level on 141-7.

In the bowl-out, Virender Sehwag [Images], Harbhajan Singh [Images] and Robin Uthappa were on target for the Indians while none of the Pakistanis could find the target. Yasir Arafat, Umar Gul and Shahid Afridi [Images] were way off the mark.

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As per the rules of cricket's latest version, if a match ends with the scores tied there must be a winner. The tie is broken by a bowl-out, something similar to a penalty shoot-out in football and field hockey.

The teams nominate five players to bowl at a set of stumps over 22 yards and take alternate attempts at hitting the target. The team that registers the most hits wins.

In case there is still a tie after the first round, the same bowlers have another go.

If the number of wickets is equal after the first 10 balls per side, the bowl-out continues and is decided by sudden-death, which means that the team missing the first hit loses.

Defending a total that hardly left any margin for error, R P Singh made early inroads when he castled Imran Nazir [Images] for 7.

Salman Butt [Images] (16), Kamran Akmal (15) and Younis Khan (2) returned in quick successions as Pakistan woke up to harsh reality with four of their top batsmen back in the pavilion with the score reading just 47.

They kept losing wickets at regular intervals and Harbhajan Singh raised hopes of an Indian victory when he dismissed dismissing the dangerous Shahid Afridi for just seven.

Misbah-ul Haq (53 - 35b, 7x4, 1x6) almost pulled off victory for his team, but an alert Yuvraj had him run-out to leave the scores tied.

Despite the defeat, Pakistan also made it to the next stage, thanks to their victory over Scotland, who ended up with a solitary point from the rain-ruined match against India on Thursday.

Scotland could have qualified for the Super Eights had Pakistan reached the target inside 14.4 overs.

Earlier, a four-wicket burst from Mohammad Asif [Images] rocked India before Robin Uthappa and Mahendra Singh Dhoni [Images] propped the side to 141 for 9.

In a rain-plagued match at Kignsmead, the Indian top order succumbed to Asif's deadly spell, stuttering to 36 for four, before Uthappa (50, 39b, 4x4, 2x6), and later Dhoni (33, 31b, 3x4, 1x6), helped bring some respectability to the score.

The Indians had a disastrous start as the cagey Gautam Gambhir [Images] (0) left the first ball from Mohammad Asif, missed the second and perished to the third. The pressure of two dot balls got the better of the batsman who came dancing down the track to hit Asif only to see the pacer catch him off his own bowling on the second attempt.

Virender Sehwag opened the account with a crisp flick off Umar Gul but then attempted a drive and dragged an Asif delivery onto the stumps to end his three-ball stay that yielded five runs.

With the team score one-run shy of double figures, India had both its openers cooling their heels in the pavilion.

Asif ensured that was not the end of trouble for the Indians. His third over again yielded a wicket and this time it was Yuvraj Singh [Images] (1) who spooned a simple catch for Shoaib Malik [Images] at point and India were gasping for breath at 19 for three in 4.1 overs.

Dinesh Karthik (11) struck Asif for couple of fours in that over to bring some relief, but in the end the pacer had the last laugh when he came back in his final over to castle the batsman when the ball came off a thick inside edge.

Asif thus struck once in each of his four overs and returned impressive figures of 4-0-18-4.

In walked Dhoni with his team in a mess and he too was at sea against Sohail Tanvir's difficult angles.

Uthappa was silent at the other end, but once Asif was off, he went after Yasir Arafat in the 10th over, hitting the seamer for two towering sixes to score 17 off that over that also took India past the 50-run mark.

India were 68 for 4 in 10.3 overs when light rain interrupted play. Uthappa came back to hit Shahid Afridi for a couple of fours to reach his 50 in the 12th over, but his concentration was snapped as he nicked Tanvir and was caught behind after a scintillating 39-ball knock that was studded with four fours and two sixes.

Dhoni and Irfan Pathan [Images] (20, 15b, 2x6) were happy with the occasional boundaries before Pathan decided to go after Afridi. He smote the bowler for two massive sixes, but Afridi foxed him with a faster delivery that upset his timberwork and India were 111 for six.

Dhoni too opened up, straight driving Yasir for a four and then hoicking him over fine leg for the maximum. But another brief rain break was followed by another setback as Afridi castled Harbhajan Singh (1).

Ajit Agarkar [Images] (14) provided some lusty heats but Dhoni departed just when he looked like unleashing himself. He went for a drive only to offer a skier to Younis Khan.
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Posted: 18 years ago
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loved watchin his nailbiting match, i couldn't stop smiling, although sayin that, the bowlout was quite fun to watch but it's not ideal, it's a last resort when a win is needed by one of the teams .. i think the pakistani team did quite well considering they were once at a stage where they needed 40odd runs from about 22 balls, after all their efforts, even having tied with india, they lost ... but an all round excellent performance by both teams 👏 n such brilliant captaincy by dhoni 😳 *behosh*
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Posted: 18 years ago
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awesome match! Congrats India. 😊

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