Twenty20 World Cup 2010 – India thrashed Afghanistan by 7 Wickets

By on May 1, 2010 in Uncategorized

India cruised to an easy win by 7 wickets in their opening game against Afghanistan of ICC World twenty20 with the help of some clever seam bowling from pacers. After electing to field first, Indian pace bowlers did fantastic job to restrict the enthusiastic Afghanistan to 115/8 in their 20 overs.

Ashish Nehra particularly boweld really well and used the short deliveries as his main weapon to remove the top Afghanistanis batsmen. At 229/3 in the 7th over, Afghanistan were struggling to get going but thanks to brilliant 68 runs stand for the fourth wicket between Noor Ali (50 runs of 48 balls) and A.Stanikzai (30 runs of 33 balls) they manage to put decent score on the board.

When these two were at the crease they were looking good to get closer to 140 runs mark, but as soon as both dismissed the tale order of Afghanistan fall like a pack of card in the end overs. P.Kumar also picked up two crucuail wickets in his spell of three overs.

India started there run chase in great fashion with 16 runs coming of the very first over. M.Vijay looked in great shape right from the word go but Gambhir frustrated by some brilliant fielding from Afghanistan and few deliveries later he jumped down the track next ball and found the fielder at cover-point on the full.

Suresh Raina during his short stay at the crease manages 18 runs of 13 balls. At 46/2 in the 6th over, Yuvraj Singh joined M.Vijay in the middle. Both ensured that no panic creeps in with the solid 55 runs partnership of 49 balls. However M.Vijay fell two run short of his well deserved maiden twenty20 half-century.

In the end, M.S.Dhoni (15 runs of 6 balls) finished the game in the matter of few deliveries with two consecutive sixes over long-off boundary.

Now in next game India will play South Africa at same venue on 2nd of May 2010.

A.Nehra was declared Man of the Match for his superb bowling spell.

Match Summary (India Won by 7 Wickets)

Afghanistan – 115/8 in 20 Overs

Noor Ali- 50                                          A.Stanikzai– 30

A.Nehra- 4-0-19-3                              P.Kumar– 3-0-14-2

India– 116/3 in 14.5 Overs

M.Vijay- 48                                              Y.Singh–23*

D.Ahmedzai- 2-0-21-1                        S.Shenwari– 2-0-11-1

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1 Comment(s)

  1. M Vijay should be sent home back…
    And Sreekant should be suspended from the selection committe of Indian Team as he has biased players by selecting M Vijay…
    I dont know how Vijay got selected to this WC team.. Sreekanth has biased as they both are fron chennai.. Vijay did not play well in the IPL2010 except a good century. But India needed a consistent batsman. Robin Uthappa could have been choosen as he was in good form.. Since Robin played in the middle order he could not score much in IPL, but whichever match he played has scored well & dont forget he was the most six hitter in IPL 2010.
    Even Ojha (IPL best bowler) could have replaced Chawla or R jadeja.
    What the **** has happened to these selectors. Instead of selecting best players by seeing their performance in IPL they r selecting as they need & like. What do they think ?
    They r selecting team for our India not for their franchisee team..

    vinay | May 7, 2010 | Reply

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