October 4, 2007

India vs Australia ODI Series: Poor Batting Side of India

The 3rd match of ongoing India, Australia odi series will perform on 5 October at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad. Live action will start from: 09:00 GMT (14:30 IST). But in the first match of this series discarded for rain and in the second math India was beat by 84 runs.

The Indian chase never took off on a wicket that played a touch slow. Brett Lee and Mitchell Johnson worked up good pace and their air speed proved discomforting for Gautam Gambhir and Sachin Tendulkar. Johnson beat Gambhir for pace and India were quickly reduced to 11/1. Robin Uthappa (41) revived hopes with some clean strikes.

Sachin fell driving into the offside, straight to Symonds off Clark. Yuvraj who came ahead of Dravid hit a now customary six over mid-on off a free hit. Shortly afterwards, he fell in the same fashion as Sachin.

Rahul Dravid and Dhoni strung together a 49-run stand which, kept some interest alive as the near capacity crowd cheered every run. Dravid’s slog sweep against Brad Hogg was taken brilliantly by Johnson on the line at deep mid-wicket, the fielder showing a great sense of balance. The remainder of the chase was a procession while Dhoni helped himself to some average boosting and morale saving runs.

Now, It is established truth if Indian top order batting become failure then India will not do any good thing. Last match along with Australia is another big example. G Gambhir, SR Tendulkar and Yuvraj Singh did not do more than 20 runs. To over come this situating what India needs to do? What is their problem?