Friday, November 21, 2008

India won 3rd ODI at Kanpur

The 3rd ODI of the Hero Honda Cup Series between India and England at Kanpur,India won the match by 16 runs with the help of D/L method due to bad light. After winning the toss, England choose to bat first. England openers Bell and Bopara started steadily with a 76 run partnership for the first wicket.After Bell departed,England batsman were losing wickets at regular intervals.Bopara was the top scorer for England with 60 runs. England were finally bowled out for 240 runs from 49 overs.Bhajji took 3 wickets for India. Then in the chase, India also were losing wickets at regular intervals,then Sehwag and Sharma steadied the Indian innings with some good partnership and in the end overs Yuvaraj and Dhoni played some cameo role boosting the run rate for India and India were finally 16 runs ahead of England with the help of D/L method and finally India won the match by 16 runs due to bad light. Sehwag was the top scorer with 68 runs. Bhajji won the man of the match award for his creditable bowling performance. India leads the seven match series 3-0.

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