Earlier in the day, India won the toss and opted to bat first. As Sehwag could not recover from knee injury,Gautam Gambhir opened the innings with Sachin Tendulkar, but their partnership didn’t last long. Tendulkar was caught behind the wicket bowled by Ravi Rampaul and he walked off despite the umpire not detecting the inside edge.
Virat Kohli walked in at number three and took the score to 51 before Gambhir top edged one to third man, again off Rampaul.He bowled Kohli in the 33rd over. But he put on a partnership of 122 runs for the third wicket with Yuvraj Singh. Kohli was out for 59 runs off 76 balls.Yuvraj played an extraordinary knock of 113 off 123 balls, including ten fours and two sixes.
At the other end, skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Suresh Raina failed to get going, and when Yuvraj was sixth out on the last ball of the 45th over.Rampaul bowled Yusuf Pathan for 11 and then Zaheer Khan for five.Rampaul took a career best five for 51.India were once again faced the lower-order collapse.Andre Russell removed Harbhajan Singh and Munaf Patel.
Indian team was bowled out for 268 runs in 49.1 overs. Their last six wickets had fallen for 50 runs in 7.3 overs.India’s batting powerplay was again costing them four wickets for 28 runs in just 4.1 overs.
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