A Fair Win

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Day before yesterday India had a match against Zimbabwe.India won the toss and decided to bowl first.Zimbabwe's openers were not so good as Sibanda got out on 1 and Masakadza got out on a duck on balls by R.P Singh,who was making his ODI debut.Then Taylor was run out by Yuvraj.Then Taibu and Coventry had a good partnership of 116 runs which took the score from 50-3 to 166-3.Then Taibu was bowled out by Yadav.He got out after scoring 71.After Taibu,the next man to go was Coventry.He went after scoring a masterful 74 with Zimbabwe's score at 227-5 after 44.5 overs.Blignaut was stumped by Dhoni on a ball by Yuvraj on 41.Zimbabwe's score was 232-6.Ewing,Mahwire,Utseya and Williams got out after scoring 7,2,0 and 8.Ireland remained not out on 1.Zimbabwe's score at the end of 50 overs was 250 all out.
India got a shock in the beginning when Sehwag got out for 12 on a ball by Mahwire.India's score was 15-1.Ganguly was the next man to follow him on 2 with India's score at 23-2.Then, unfortunately Sir Dravid also got out after scoring just 6 with India's score at 34-3.Soon after Sir Dravid's dismissal Kaif also got out with India's score at 36-4.It was a nightmare for India.India was losing against Zimbabwe.Venugopal got out for 27 with India's score at 91-5.Now Dhoni came on the crease.Yuvraj made his 4th ODI century.Yuvraj and Dhoni made a brilliant partnership of 158 runs.This was India's highest partnership for the 6th wicket against Zimbabwe.Yuvraj got out after scoring a brilliant 120 with India's score at 6-249.Dhoni brought up his fifty and was not out at 67.India won the match by 4 wickets.Initially,the Indians were worried.But then Yuvraj and Dhoni turned the match in India's favour.
Yuvraj Singh was named the man of the match for his 120.

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This was certainly a good victory for India. While the top order collapsed, the middle order provided the suppport and the reasonably large totat was chased. Yuvraj and Dhoni both played very well. But India must be quite worried about another failure of their top order batsmen.
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