Sunday, December 23, 2012


England have won the toss and elected to field

Teams:
India (Playing XI): Gautam Gambhir, Ajinkya Rahane, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, MS Dhoni(w/c), Ravichandran Ashwin, Parvinder Awana, Piyush Chawla, Ashok Dinda

England (Playing XI): Michael Lumb, Alex Hales, Luke Wright, Eoin Morgan(c), Joseph Root, Samit Patel, Jos Buttler(w), Tim Bresnan, James Tredwell, Stuart Meaker, Jade Dernbach

India 177/8 (20 overs)
India seemed to lose their track in the middle when Yuvraj, Gambhir and Rohit fell. Dhoni, however, came out and played a blinder to get India to this total. Raina played a fine hand. A word of appreciation to the English fielders who saved a minimum of 20 runs by diving and sliding around.

England 181/4 (20 overs)
England have squared the series 1-1. The chase was very professional from England. The openers gave them a great start. Yuvraj Singh pulled things back with a miserly spell where he picked up 3 wickets as well. A lot depended on Morgan who came in late to take England across and he did it in style.

Yuvraj Singh is the Man of the Series for his good showing with the ball in both games.

Eoin Morgan is the Man of the Match for his superb knock under pressure.

Lumb was in his elements right from the start of the chase, dealing in boundaries at a regular rate to reach his maiden T20I fifty. However, England felt the heat when four quick wickets went down and from a position of strength, the visitors were fighting hard to stay in the game. This was when Morgan took charge of the proceedings and came up with a brilliant piece of batsmanship. Boundaries came at will for the left-hander, who took a liking to Ashok Dinda, smashing him for 21 runs off just seven balls, which included a six off the final delivery of the match when England required 3 runs.
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