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Asia Cup 2008 / Scorecard

Asia Cup - 4th match, Group B

Hong Kong v India

India won by 256 runs

ODI no. 2716 | 2008 season
Played at National Stadium, Karachi (neutral venue)
25 June 2008 - day/night (50-over match)


India innings (50 overs maximum)		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
G Gambhir	c Lamsam b Najeeb Amar	51	75	54	7	0	94.44
18.3 that's all over for Gambhir, he's danced down the ground but the bowler fired that into the pads, lofted that high towards square leg but that doesn't have the timing, Lamsan comes around and picks off a clean take, that was a soft dismissal and a big boost for Hong Kong 136/2
V Sehwag	c Irfan Ahmed b Najeeb Amar	78	58	44	13	2	177.27
14.3 Relief for Hong Kong. Sehwag is gone. Najeeb strikes. Sehwag rushes down the track and tries to heave it to wide long-on region but edges a dolly to backward point. 127/1
RG Sharma	run out (Nadeem Ahmed)	11	37	29	0	0	37.93
24.6 Najeeb Amar to Dhoni, And Rohit is run out. Dhoni was squared up but managed to push it to cover point. For some reason, Rohit had charged across, perhaps he wanted his captain to retain the strike, and couldn't get back in time to beat the direct hit 159/3
MS Dhoni*†	not out	109	121	96	6	6	113.54

SK Raina	c Irfan Ahmed b Afzaal Haider	101	80	68	7	5	148.52
45.3 Raina charged down the track and wanted to heave it to wide long-on but edged it to over extra cover. Good catch by Irfan running back 325/4
RV Uthappa	not out	15	19	9	0	1	166.66

Extras	(b 6, lb 1, w 2)	9

Total	(4 wickets; 50 overs; 197 mins)	374	(7.48 runs per over)

Did not bat YK Pathan, PP Chawla, P Kumar, RP Singh, MS Gony

Fall of wickets1-127 (Sehwag, 14.3 ov), 2-136 (Gambhir, 18.3 ov), 3-159 (Sharma, 24.6 ov), 4-325 (Raina, 45.3 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
Afzaal Haider	6	0	72	1	12.00
45.3 to Raina, Raina charged down the track and wanted to heave it to wide long-on but edged it to over extra cover. Good catch by Irfan running back 325/4
Irfan Ahmed	6	0	53	0	8.83	(1w)

JPR Lamsam	2	0	27	0	13.50

Nadeem Ahmed	8	0	52	0	6.50

Najeeb Amar	10	0	40	2	4.00
14.3 to Sehwag, Relief for Hong Kong. Sehwag is gone. Najeeb strikes. Sehwag rushes down the track and tries to heave it to wide long-on region but edges a dolly to backward point. 127/1 18.3 to Gambhir, that's all over for Gambhir, he's danced down the ground but the bowler fired that into the pads, lofted that high towards square leg but that doesn't have the timing, Lamsan comes around and picks off a clean take, that was a soft dismissal and a big boost for Hong Kong 136/2
Munir Dar	10	0	55	0	5.50

Skhawat Ali	8	0	68	0	8.50	(1w)


Hong Kong innings (target: 375 runs from 50 overs)		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
Tabarak Dar*	st †Dhoni b Chawla	21	57	37	2	0	56.75
12.3 stumped by a lovely leg break. He ran down the track, the ball dipped in front of him on the middle stump line and turned past the outside edge. Chawla was guilty in his earlier days of bowling too many googlies and not concentrating enough on the conventional one but he is making amends these days. A session with Warne recently has helped. 49/2
Skhawat Ali	lbw b Singh	0	7	3	0	0	0.00
1.3 Dead plumb. It curves in to the middle stump line and the batsman can't get his bat around the front pad in time. 4/1
JJ Atkinson†	c & b Pathan	23	73	46	3	0	50.00
17.3 soft dismissal. He couldn't keep a straight drive down. The ball dipped on him and he didn't quite lean forward into the shot. 54/4
KH Butt	st †Dhoni b Chawla	4	18	15	0	0	26.66
16.2 stumped by a googly this time. He charged down the track, had a big heave, missed but Dhoni didn't 54/3
CK Kruger	st †Dhoni b Chawla	3	18	16	0	0	18.75
22.1 another stumping. This time by a big spinning leg break. It drifted in towards leg stump before turning sharply past the lunging batsman. Dhoni does the final rites. 67/5
Irfan Ahmed	run out (Singh/Pathan)	25	34	43	5	0	58.13
29.3 from Pathan, Irfan is run out. Yusuf floated it outside off stump, Irfan turned to right of square leg where RP rushed to and fired a throw to Yusuf who collected the ball awkwardly in front of the stumps but managed to break the stumps 91/6
JPR Lamsam	run out (†Dhoni/Singh)	16	34	30	3	0	53.33
33.4 from Pathan, another run out. Pushed to backward point and only Lamsam ran and he had to run back. Too late. 109/8
Munir Dar	c Pathan b Chawla	4	4	4	1	0	100.00
30.4 Wicket no 7. He top edges a slog sweep to mid-on. Another wicket for Chawla who has bowled quite a few legbreaks in this game and has got them to turn. The right arm used to go too high and in an angle, almost touching the right ear and he used to bowl lots of googlies but was unable to get the leg break to turn much. Now he has corrected his right-arm position, at times he even gets them rounder to impart more turn. 99/7
Najeeb Amar	not out	13	18	16	3	0	81.25

Afzaal Haider	b Sehwag	0	8	10	0	0	0.00
36.4 does it on his own with a yorker. Really full on the middle stump and he played all around it 118/9
Nadeem Ahmed	c †Dhoni b Sehwag	0	2	1	0	0	0.00
36.5 Caught by Dhoni. It held its line after landing around the off stump line, he got a thin nick to defensive poke. Game over. 118/10
Extras	(lb 2, w 7)	9

Total	(all out; 36.5 overs; 142 mins)	118	(3.20 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-4 (Skhawat Ali, 1.3 ov), 2-49 (Tabarak Dar, 12.3 ov), 3-54 (Butt, 16.2 ov), 4-54 (Atkinson, 17.3 ov), 5-67 (Kruger, 22.1 ov), 6-91 (Irfan Ahmed, 29.3 ov), 7-99 (Munir Dar, 30.4 ov), 8-109 (Lamsam, 33.4 ov), 9-118 (Afzaal Haider, 36.4 ov), 10-118 (Nadeem Ahmed, 36.5 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
P Kumar	5	0	21	0	4.20	(5w)

RP Singh	4	0	19	1	4.75
1.3 to Skhawat Ali, Dead plumb. It curves in to the middle stump line and the batsman can't get his bat around the front pad in time. 4/1
MS Gony	5	1	11	0	2.20	(1w)

PP Chawla	10	2	23	4	2.30
12.3 to Tabarak Dar, stumped by a lovely leg break. He ran down the track, the ball dipped in front of him on the middle stump line and turned past the outside edge. Chawla was guilty in his earlier days of bowling too many googlies and not concentrating enough on the conventional one but he is making amends these days. A session with Warne recently has helped. 49/2 16.2 to Butt, stumped by a googly this time. He charged down the track, had a big heave, missed but Dhoni didn't 54/3 22.1 to Kruger, another stumping. This time by a big spinning leg break. It drifted in towards leg stump before turning sharply past the lunging batsman. Dhoni does the final rites. 67/5 30.4 to Munir Dar, Wicket no 7. He top edges a slog sweep to mid-on. Another wicket for Chawla who has bowled quite a few legbreaks in this game and has got them to turn. The right arm used to go too high and in an angle, almost touching the right ear and he used to bowl lots of googlies but was unable to get the leg break to turn much. Now he has corrected his right-arm position, at times he even gets them rounder to impart more turn. 99/7
YK Pathan	10	0	37	1	3.70	(1w)
17.3 to Atkinson, soft dismissal. He couldn't keep a straight drive down. The ball dipped on him and he didn't quite lean forward into the shot. 54/4
V Sehwag	2.5	0	5	2	1.76
36.4 to Afzaal Haider, does it on his own with a yorker. Really full on the middle stump and he played all around it 118/9 36.5 to Nadeem Ahmed, Caught by Dhoni. It held its line after landing around the off stump line, he got a thin nick to defensive poke. Game over. 118/10

Match details

Toss India, who chose to bat
Points India 2, Hong Kong 0

ODI debut MS Gony (India)
Player of the match SK Raina (India)

Umpires AL Hill (New Zealand) and BG Jerling (South Africa)
TV umpire MG Silva (Sri Lanka)
Match referee AG Hurst (Australia)
Reserve umpire Saleem Badar

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