Man of the match Yuvraj scored a second consecutive century and also took 4 crucial wickets to take India to its second win of the series. Birthday boy Yousuf Pathan scores a scintillating maiden half centure and helped his team reach 292. For England, Owais Shah scored a fifty and there was some awesome power hitting from Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff. They just left it too late for the big hitting but the 3rd power play produced 59 runs.
India: 292/9. Yuvraj Singh 118. Gautham Gambhir 70. Yusuf Pathan 50*.
England: 238 all out. Andrew Flintoff 43. Yuvraj Singh 4 wickets
Watch the full highlights of India vs England 1st ODI. Yuvraj smashed an unbeaten century. Sehwag and Gambhir got India to a flying start. Then Zaheer and Munaf bowled a terrific opening spell to get 4 England wickets before they could score 50. Hugely convincing and a completely one-sided game.
India have done what many thought was impossible. Beating Australia 2-0 in a 4 match series. Watch all the highlights and presentation ceremony of the 5th day of the 4th test:
Excellent fight back by Australia in the second session as the morning session belonged to Virender Sehwag. Dhoni and Bhajji saved India some blushes with what could be a match-saving partnership. Ricky Ponting lost the plot after tea when he brought on part-time spinners instead of Watson who had bowled superbly. Australia finished the day needing 369 to win the fourth test and draw the series.
The morning session was reason for some controversy with several calling into question Dhoni’s negative tactics – Ishanth Sharma and Zaheer Khan had an extended spell with Harbhajan being introduced 15 minutes before lunch and the two pacers consistently bowled on and outside offstump to an 8 man offside field.
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