Monday, July 23, 2018

India (Gavask)are triumphant over Pakistan

India made five changes to their playing eleven – Yashpal Sharma, Lalchand Rajput, Manoj Prabhakar, Thirumalai Sekhar and Chetan Sharma made way for 1983 World Cup heroes Dilip Vengsarkar, Mohinder Amarnath, Roger Binny and Madan Lal, and Laxman Sivaramakrishnan, who was making his One-day International debut.

Pakistan made half-a-dozen changes too. The three Alis (Saadat, Sajid and Ashraf), Naved Anjum, Manzoor Elahi and Tauseef Ahmed made way for Mohsin Khan, Qasim Umar, Rameez Raja, Imran Khan, Anil Dalpat and Wasim Akram. Their skipper, Javed Miandad, chose to bat on winning the toss.

Mohsin, who faced 13 balls, scored three. He was caught by Sadanand Viswanath. Binny broke the eight-run stand. Zaheer Abbas scored 26. His 56-ball innings included a boundary. He was caught by Sivaramakrishnan, who broke the second-wicket partnership, which was worth 65.

Umar scored 57. His 102-ball innings included four boundaries. He was caught by Sivaramakrishnan, who broke the 25-run partnership. Miandad, who faced 35 balls, scored 17. He was caught by Sivaramakrishnan. Binny broke the fourth-wicket partnership, which was worth 21.

Imran scored 14. His 23-ball innings included a boundary. He was caught by Lal. Kapil Dev broke the 25-run stand. The sixth-wicket pair had no reason to be in seventh heaven – Mudassar Nazar, who scored six off eight balls, was run out.

Naqqash, who faced T(a)h(i)ree balls, didn’t get off the mark. He was caught by Amarnath. Lal broke the four-run stand. Rameez, who faced 37 balls, scored 29. He was caught by Ravi Shastri. Dev broke the one-run stand.

Dalpat, who faced eight balls, scored nine. He was caught by Dev. Binny broke the 27-run stand. The last-wicket pair didn’t open its account. Rashid Khan, who faced 16 balls, scored 17. He was caught by Shastri off the bowling of Binny. Akram, who didn’t face a ball, was unbeaten.

India conceded six extras. Pakistan were dismissed for 183 off 49.2 overs. Amarnath, who bowled three overs, conceded 11. He was wicketless, as was Shastri, who bowled 10 overs, including a maiden. He conceded 27. Lal bowled nine overs, including a couple of maidens. He conceded 27, picking up a wicket.

Dev bowled nine overs, including a maiden. He conceded 31, picking up a couple of wickets. Sivaramakrishnan bowled 10 overs, conceding 49. He picked up a couple of wickets. Binny bowled 8.2 overs, including three wickets. He conceded 35, picking up four scalps.

Shastri, who faced five balls, scoring just a couple. He was caught by Miandad. Imran broke the two-run stand. Krishnamachari Srikkanth scored a dozen. His 26-ball innings included a couple of boundaries. He was caught by Mohsin. Imran broke the second-wicket partnership, which was worth 25.

Mohammad Azharuddin, who scored 93, was adjudged the player of the match. His 135-ball innings included four boundaries. He was unbeaten. The third-wicket pair didn’t open his account. Vengsarkar, who faced a ball, didn’t open his account. He was caught by Mudassar off the bowling of Imran.

Sunil Gavaskar, India’s captain, scored 54. His 92-ball innings included a boundary. Mudassar trapped him leg before wicket, breaking the fourth-wicket partnership, which was worth 132. Amarnath, who faced 16 balls, scored 11. He was unbeaten.

Pakistan conceded a dozen extras. India, who scored 184 for the loss of four wickets off 45.5 overs, won by six wickets with 25 balls to spare. Rashid and Akram conceded 38 apiece. They were wicketless. But while the former bowled seven overs, the latter bowled 8.5 overs.

Naqqash bowled 10 wicketless overs, conceding 34. Mudassar, who bowled 10 overs, conceded 38. He picked up a wicket. Imran bowled 10 overs, including a maiden. He conceded 27 and picked up three scalps.

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