Tuesday, November 18, 2008

India won second ODI at Indore

In the second ODI match of the Hero Honda Cup Series between India and England played at Indore,India won the match by 4 runs. After winning the toss,India choose to bat first.After losing Viru,Sharma and Raina early it was Gambhir and Yuvaraj who steadied the Indian innings with a decent partnership.Yuvaraj smashed his second consecutive hundred of this series and Yusuf Pathan played a cameo role at the end of the first innings boosting the Indian team total to 291 runs from 50 overs.Broad took four wickets for England. Then in the chase England wickets fell at regular intervals.Shah was the top scorer with 58 runs.England were finally bowled out for 238 runs.Yuvaraj picked up 4 wickets and Viru picked up 3 wickets. The good all round performance by Yuvaraj fetched him the man of the match award for the second time in a row in this series.India now leads the seven match series by 2-0.

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