Wednesday, November 30, 2005

India move up to 4



Hi!
India played South Africa in the Pepsi cup ODI series which included 5 ODIs.The series began on 16th November,2005 and ended on 28th November,2005.
THe 1st match of the series was played on,as mentioned earlier,16th November,2005 at Hyderabad.It was a day match.South Africa won the toss and elected to field 1st.India got some early shocks and were 35-5 at 1 stage.But then some great batting display from Yuvraj Singh,Irfan Pathan and Harbhajan Singh took India to 249-9 after 50.Yuvraj scored 103.Pollock,Ntini and Nel took 2 wickets each while Botha,on his debut, took 1.For S.Africa Kallis scored 68*and South Africa won by 5 wickets.Yuvraj Singh picked the man of the match.
2nd ODI was played at Bangalore on November 19,2005.It was a Day/night match.India won the toss and put S.Africa on to bat.South Africa were all out on 169.Andrew Hall scored 32 and Pathan took 3-23.India won by 4 wickets ,Sehwag being the highest scorer.He scored 77*.Both Pollock and Ontong took 1 wicket each.Pathan was named the man of the match.The series was tied 1-1.
3rd match that was going to be played at Chennai on 22nd November was abandoned due to rain.
4th match was played at Kolkata on 25th November.South Africa won the toss and elected to field.India ended up scoring 188.Yuvraj and Kaif scored 53 and 46.Pollock and Hall took 3 wickets each.Guess what! South Africa won the match by 10 wickets.Smith played a captain's innings and scored 134* of 124 balls while Hall scored 48*.Smith picked up the man of the match.South Africa were leading at that point of time 2-1.
5th match was played at Mumbai on 28th November.It was a day/night match.India won the toss and elected to field.Kallis scored a patient innings of 91 of 146 deliveries.Pathan took 3 wickets while Harbhajan took 2.South Africa scored 221-6 after 50.For it was their captain who stood rock solid till the end.He scored 78* and took India to victory.He was the only one who helped India draw the series and move up in the ratings.India won by 5 wickets,Nel took 2 wickets for his country.Sir Dravid was named the man of the match.The series was drawn 2-2.
India have moved up in the ICC ODI cricket ratings and are now 4th while South Africa have maintained their 2nd position.
Graeme Smith and Yuvraj Singh shared the man of the series award for scoring same number of runs at the same average in the series.
Sir Dravid has become the highest run-scorer in 2005 with over 1080 runs this year.He has also been appointed the captain for the forthcoming test series with Sri Lanka.

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