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Sunday, May 21, 2006

Moment of Truth

According to me, the important moment that affected the outcome of the 2nd ODI between India and the West Indies happened in the 49th over of the West Indian Innings.
Irfan Pathan was bowling to Taylor and the second ball was pushed towards point and Taylor took off for a single. There was absolutely no run in it as it went straight to Suresh Raina. Taylor then tried to come back to the safety of the crease as Raina scooped on the ball and tried to hit the stumps. Unfortunately for Raina and India it missed (Taylor would have been miles out had it hit) and with no one backing up in the infield the ball was fielded by the boundary fielder at square leg and the batsmen ambled for a single.

And more importantly the next three balls produced 14 runs as Sarwan hit a couple of boundaries and a six.

Now thats a lot of runs in a low scoring match. (India lost the match by a solitary run :-( despite Yuraj's heroics..)

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