Team India batsmen in Raina and Sehwag made up for some ordinary bowling and fielding performance. Dhoni must be worried man even after a comfortable win chasing 300, his bowlers are giving away 6+ runs consistently and the fielding is not that great. Gary Kirsten should be thinking of including an extra bowler with the teams top order batsmen in good form. I would think that Gony should replace R.Sharma as the fifth regular bowler, i dont think sharma can add value at no 6 / 7.
Raina played one of his best innings in international carrier, he was so confident and getting runs at will sehwag had to play the waiting role in providing much of the strike to Raina. With UmarGul walking out of the field with hip strain, the Pakistan bowling looked pretty ordinary, SohailTanvir was not in his element to carry the extra responsibility in Gul's absence. Full credit to Raina and Sehwag in getting more than the required run rate with some good cricketing shorts and it was not just slam bang hitting. Sehwag picked up steam once he reached his fifty and went on to hit 5 sixes to get to his 9th ODI hundred after 3 years. Wish and hope Raina is retained at No 3 and most importantly performs to his potential. Earlier on it was Shoaib Malik's turn to belt the hapless indian bowling to reach his 2nd successive hundred in the AsiaCup with some good partnerships with Salman Butt and Younis Khan. As expected all the four test playing nations are in the Super Four league phase.
Srinath delivers four match ban for Collingwood for slow over rate, this is the first time i have heard that a English captain being banned. Kevin Peterson will lead the team in the decisive fifth ODI against the New Zeland, i wish rain does not spoil the great game. Australia takes on the West Indies in the 2nd ODI of the series and feel its advantage Aussies.
Euro-2008 :- Its Germany vs Spain in the finals on 29th and going by past records Germany starts favorites.
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