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Written by Rasesh
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Thursday, 09 February 2006 |
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 Inzamam was not very happy with the Indian team after they appealed for obstructing the field of play in the first ODI in Peshawar.
Pakistan had a huge target to chase, with the match being at a crucial stage when Inzamam was given out.
"The Indian fielders appealed when the Peshawar match was in a crucial state. I would not have imagined Rahul Dravid and his team would do such a thing." Said the Pakistan captain.
He also stated that the umpires had no choice but to give him out since those were the rules of the game .
"In my role as the Pakistan captain I would say that the appeal from the Indian fielders was against the spirit of cricket. Certainly, there are several modes in which a batsman can be declared out, but many of them are not in the spirit of the game," Inzamam wrote in his column in The News.
Inzamam had said that he was unable to understand what the exact rules were since just a month ago he was given out against England trying to protect himself from the ball.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 09 February 2006 )
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Written by Rasesh
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Tuesday, 07 February 2006 |
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Ramesh Powar is scheduled to join the Indian team for the next ODI on wednesday afternoon. He has been rewarded for the good domestic season he just had. The mumbai offspinner will be a backup to the Turbanator, who is nursing his injured finger. The decision to include him was made today, "Yes, the team management wanted an extra spinner since Harbhajan is not hundred percent fit," said chairman of selectors Kiran More. "Plus we always had him in mind for the Pakistan tour." Ramesh Powar played the 7 matches this season in the Ranji trophy and managed to get 42 wickets and scoring 342 valuable runs for Mumbai. Although he has been brought in, it is highly unlikely that he will feature in the saturday ODI in Rawalpindi.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 07 February 2006 )
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Written by Rasesh
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Monday, 06 February 2006 |
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Very rarely does bad light affect ODI matches, but this is what we got to see in the first ODI at Peshawar, which helped Pakistan clinch the match and take the lead in the ODI series. Inspite of giving away 328 runs while bowling there was never a glimpse of negative body language from the home team. The Indian innings started off badly with Sehwag going early and the scoring rate being very slow, then the innings gathered some momentum as Pathan and Dhoni played very well for their 65 and 68 respectively. Sachin Tendulkar delivered this time, after being in the news after the test matches. With a lot of news channels reporting that the master blaster should be rested for sometime et cetera. He replied to his critics with another special hundred, taking his tally to 39. He then departed immediately with a controversial decision, in the bowling of Arshad Khan. India allout for 328 were about 20-30 runs short one felt. Pakistan started off well and got a 50 opening wicket partnership after which Kamran Akmal departed trying to cut Sreeshanth for 25. Then was probably the partnership of the match which really took the game away from the Indians. Salman Butt scored his 3rd hundred against his favourite team which is apparent.He didn't try and hammer every ball, and was intent to just push the single. After the fall of Akmal, Malik joined him at the crease and they had a very good partnership. He started off slowly but then reached 50 in just 49 balls. Once Shoaib Malik fell for 90 the game appeared to have opened up, Shahid Afridi and Mohammad Yousuf soon followed scoring 17 each in quick time. Salman Butt ended his innings on 101 by chipping one in the air in the bowling of Karthik. Then was a shocking dismissal of Inzamam when he was given out obstructing the ball when Suresh Raina threw at the stumps. Razzaq soon followed him, but then the light started fading very rapidly when the Umpires decided to go with the D/L rule and it was realised that India was beaten by 7 runs only. Photos from Peshawar 1st ODI, India tour of Pakistan 2006
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Last Updated ( Monday, 06 February 2006 )
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Written by Rasesh
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Sunday, 05 February 2006 |
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India's right arm off-spinner Harbhajan Singh injured his finger during practice on saturday morning.
Team Reports say it is unlikely to prevent him from playing the first ODI at Peshawar.
"Harbhajan suffered a bruise on the forefinger of his bowling hand while fielding today. And we asked him not to bowl at the nets as a precautionary measure only. He will be available to play in the first match," captain Rahul Dravid informed reporters.
The practise session looked empty as not all the players were present and the ODI specialists were absent.
Reporters asked the pitch curator how the pitch would play but didnt get a solid answer from Agha Zahid, the Pakistan Cricket Board's chief curator.
But the pitch doesnt matter too much atleast not as much it matters in the test matches.
Hope to see a better start to the One day matches than we got for the tests.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 05 February 2006 )
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Written by Rasesh
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Thursday, 02 February 2006 |
There are plenty of controversies surrounding him at the moment, but he has no plans to retire.
"I am playing well at the moment and I will continue to play," Ganguly told Times Now.
He played in two tests in Pakistan but got an opportunity only in the Karachi match. Ganguly got starts in both the innings but failed to capitalize on the starts.
The disappointment definately showed when he got out, and whilst he was playing it surely looked he was very determined to prove a point.
Very rarely did he nick the ball or get beaten in both the innings.
"I just played in one Test and in both innings I contributed in 100-run partnerships. But I am disappointed that I got out at a crucial point in the match. We had made a 100-run partnership and my wicket could have made a big difference," he said.
He also added the he had a good time in the dressing room and there was absolutely no problem.
When asked if he was ready to open the batting for India he replied "If I am asked I will do that."
Only time will tell if he plays against the Poms in the coming home series till them Ganguly and all his fans :fingers crossed: !
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Written by Akshay
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Thursday, 02 February 2006 |
Although it may seem like Pakistan piling on the runs in the second innings took the game away from India, it was actually much earlier that the match slipped from India's grip.
As captain, Rahul Dravid's game plan on winning the toss would've been : Bowl first to give his bowlers the best conditions in which they can make the ball talk , restrict Pakistan to a low first innings total, bat during the relatively easier batting conditions, take a lead and put pressure on Pakistan in the second innings.
It all seemed to be going according to plan, in fact much beyond expectations, with Pakistan down for the count at 39-6. But then the all too familiar scene, the oppostion lower order adding valuable runs against an attack that has always struggled to clean up the tail. It is no secret that India lack firepower in their pace attack. The three medium pacers chosen in this team are no exception, Pathan relies on swing, Zaheer on seam movement and R.P.Singh on hitting the deck and suprising the batsmen with deceptive movement and bouce. Considering this Dravid would've known the only way his attack could pick up 20 wickets was help from the pitch in the first innings and pressure ( of conceding a first innings lead ) in the second innings. Thus it was all set up, Pakistan were set to be bundled out below 150, India wouldve got a lead and Pakistan would crumble under the pressure of that lead in the second innings. But Kamran Akmal played the innings of his life and a couple of good partnerships with Razzaq and Akhtar rescued Pakistan. Still Dravid wouldve settled for a score of 245 if he was given a choice before the match started. It seemed a decent enough effort with the standout being the hat-trick for Irfan. All India had to do was apply themselves and weather out the stormy spell with the new ball, ofcourse easier said than done, but then a series win away from home was at stake. India faultered and faultered badly, conceding a 7 run lead to Pakistan instead !
Pakistan then had the opportunity which India shouldve had in the first place : pressurize the oppostion with a big total to chase in the last innings. By now the wicket had eased out and the task for the Pak batsmen became easier. This is where the lack of depth in the Indian bowling showed. Nobody looked like picking up a wicket, since the early assistance in terms of seam and swing movement was missing. The bowlers seemed clueless about where the next wicket would come from. It was evident from the fact that all the top seven Pak batsmen got 50s, a record in itself. Anil Kumble the true competitor, alone looked like stopping the flow of runs and picking up the odd wicket but that clearly wasnt enough.
The Indian batting in the second innings also wasn't too flattering but then batting out almost 2 days to save a match and series against any attack would'nt be easy, let alone the Shoaibs and Asifs. Special mention for Mohammed Asif, who I believe was a much superior bowler to Shoaib in this test. Bowling at decent pace, he stuck to the basics of line and length, kept the ball in the corridor of uncertainty, where the batsmen struggled to go forward or back and it paid him rich dividends.
Credit to Pakistan for coming back from 39-6, but in my view Pakistan did not win the match, India lost it.
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