World Cup England and India share thrilling tie

England vs India World Cup highlights 27-02-2011

 


It will be the India taking on England on 27th Feb 2011 of 11th Match. On Sunday at the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 since hosts India take on top of England next to the Chinnaswamy Sports ground inside Bangalore. There has been a batch of excitement seeing that fighting fit as controversy around the game. Also watch England vs India highlights after match completed.

 

Andrew Strauss led from the front in another daunting run-chase, compiling a captain’s innings of 92 from 90 balls to follow up his agenda-setting 88 against the Netherlands last week, as England pointed themselves in the right direction in pursuit of India’s massive target of 339 at Bangalore. Strauss added 68 for the first wicket with Kevin Pietersen, who fell for 31 to a freakish caught-and-bowled from Munaf Patel, and though Jonathan Trott was pinned lbw for 16 by the legspinner Piyush Chawla, England’s score at the halfway mark remained a creditable 163 for 2.

 

However, Ian Bell might well have been dismissed on 17 from the very last ball of the 25th over, when Yuvraj Singh went up for an lbw appeal as Bell attempted and missed a sweep. Though India’s subsequent review suggested he was out, with the ball pitching inside the line of off stump, and the Hawkeye replay showing the stumps being broken, umpire Billy Bowden upheld his original verdict, because Bell had come down the wicket by more than 2.5 metres before the moment of impact. It was a controversial ruling, albeit one written into the ICC’s playing conditions, and it was one that could yet prove significant.

 

A positive start was a pre-requisite as England set off in pursuit of what, if successful, would be the fourth-highest in ODI history, and Strauss responded in the perfect fashion when Zaheer Khan, armed with the new ball, strayed onto his pads first-up to gift a flicked four through fine leg. Later in the same over he doubled his tally with a punched square drive, and when Munaf followed a first-ball appeal against Pietersen with a second-ball half-tracker, England were properly up and running.

Strauss had his moments of luck, particularly on 17 when TV replays suggested he had nicked a drive against Zaheer that the Indian fielders were unable to hear against the din of the crowd. Five runs later, he miscued a pull that flew just out of reach of Harbhajan Singh at mid-on, but for the most part he was rewarded for his intent and aggression, and by the end of the batting Powerplay, England were 19 runs to the good, on 77 for 1, compared to India’s 10-over total of 58 for 1.

Pietersen was barely less impressive in his short stay, as he pounded four fours in eight Zaheer deliveries including an arrow-straight drive that whistled past the stumps at the non-striker’s end. His dismissal when it came was extraordinary, as Munaf was dumped on his backside by a brutally struck drive, only for the ball he had parried from in front of his face to plop into his right hand as he glanced up to regain his bearings.

Trott got off the mark with a crisp drive for three to extra cover, and proved an able ally in a 43-run stand for the second wicket, nudging eight singles to keep the strike rotating, while dragging Harbhajan through midwicket to pick off his solitary boundary. But Chawla, who took a while to locate the perfect length, beat him all ends up with one that hurried on, and he was already walking before umpire Bowden raised his crooked finger.

Bell, England’s best player of spin, was beaten twice in two balls as Chawla ripped first his googly then his legspinner to perfection. But faced with an asking rate of roughly six an over, he took over Trott’s supporting role while Strauss continued to make the running for England, with Chawla and Yuvraj Singh both dispatched through the leg-side, while Harbhajan was driven inside-out through extra cover in a rare show of flamboyance that might equally have been a case of being beaten in flight. Either way, England remained very much in the game, and the Bangalore crowd was awaiting an excuse to rediscover its voice.

Sachin Tendulkar produced the performance that every man in his nation had prayed was in his grasp, as India’s batsmen ignited their first home fixture of the 2011 World Cup with a towering display against England at Bangalore. On a sporty wicket that offered assistance to the bowlers but value for every stroke, they pillaged 35 fours and seven sixes in an imposing total of 338, with Tendulkar standing supreme with 120 from 115 balls, his 47th ODI century, and his fifth in six World Cup campaigns. A late collapse, instigated by the tireless Tim Bresnan, saved England’s blushes a touch as they scalped seven wickets in 25 balls, but it will take a superhuman effort under the floodlights to win this game now.

Even by Tendulkar’s matchless standards, his was a vintage performance, and a masterful example of how to pace an innings. He was a casual bystander in the day’s opening exchanges, as Virender Sehwag swiped England’s early bid for momentum with an audacious but chancy 35 from 26 balls, but he picked up his tempo throughout a second-wicket stand of 134 with Gautam Gambhir, without ever needing to take risks to make his mark. The high point of his innings came when he belted consecutive sixes at the start of Graeme Swann’s second spell, a calculated show of class that undermined England’s trump bowler, and left Andrew Strauss floundering for alternatives as his tactics were picked apart.

In all Tendulkar stroked 10 fours and five sixes in what was, somewhat curiously, his first one-day hundred against England for nine years. By the time he was dismissed with 11 overs of the innings remaining, caught off a leading edge at cover (to give the labouring James Anderson his first one-day wicket in India for 53 overs dating back to 2006), India’s total stood at an imposing 236 for 3, and it was a measure both of Tendulkar’s brilliance and of England’s dogged refusal to give in, that Yuvraj Singh and MS Dhoni were unable to cut loose to quite the extent they might have expected.

The batting Powerplay yielded 32 runs in five overs, and though Yuvraj kept up the tempo with nine fours in a 50-ball 58, he became the first victim of the collapse, when he holed out to deep midwicket to give Michael Yardy a wicket from the last ball of his spell. That set the stage for Bresnan to embark on a superb spell of death bowling to scalp his first five-wicket haul, and the best by an England seamer in World Cup history.

The first of Bresnan’s victims – one ball later – was Dhoni, who sized up the midwicket boundary but picked out the substitute Luke Wright, before Yusuf Pathan, Virat Kohli and Harbhajan Singh were all dispatched in the space of four deliveries, courtesy of a slower ball and two yorkers. Consecutive run-outs then followed in Anderson’s final over, but not before he had been filleted for 91 in 9.5 overs, the most expensive English analysis in World Cup history.

The omens for England had not been exactly positive going into the start of this match. Eleven defeats in their last 12 away matches against India underlined their status of underdogs, as did the two team’s respective performances in their opening fixtures of the tournament – England’s laboured victory over the Netherlands compared distinctly unfavourably to India’s crunching win against Bangladesh in Dhaka, and when Stuart Broad, their best and most aggressive seamer, was ruled out with a stomach complaint before the start of the match, a vast swathe of England’s gameplan went down with him.

Nevertheless, the opening exchanges were extraordinary. Sehwag, fresh from last week’s brutal 175 against Bangladesh, faced up to Anderson, whose ten overs had disappeared for 72 against the Netherlands, and might have been dismissed three times in five balls. Anderson’s first delivery was a full-length outswinger that a flat-footed Sehwag flashed past a diving Swann at second slip; his third zipped off a leading edge and looped over Ian Bell at cover, and the fifth lollipopped back down the track and just out of Anderson’s reach in his followthrough.

With the stable door already ajar, the horse was set to bolt when a nervy Shahzad conceded two more boundaries in his first over, but England to their credit tightened their lines and made the early breakthrough courtesy of Bresnan, who lured Sehwag into a cute dink that nestled comfortably in Matt Prior’s outstretched right glove. The Chinnaswamy Stadium immediately descended into the sort of silence that Graeme Swann had declared before the match was his favourite sound in the world.

Swann had a chance to extend that silence in his second over when Gambhir, emboldened by a sashay down the track that had resulted in a sumptuous four over long-off, tried the same stroke again, but inside-edged at a catchable height past Prior’s gloves, and away for four. But while Gambhir’s overt aggression diverted England’s attention, Tendulkar’s stealthier approach began to reap its rewards. He had reached 28 from 47 balls before he signalled to the dressing room that it was time for a heavier bat, and having belted Swann back over his head for four, he turned his attentions to the offcutters of Paul Collingwood, who joined the attack as England’s fifth bowler in the 18th over of the innings, and was cracked for two Tendulkar sixes in the space of three overs.

If that got the crowd’s juices flowing, then Tendulkar’s double whammy against Swann – a pair of massive mows over the leg-side – tipped the entire stadium into ecstasy. He followed up with a sweet uppercut off Shahzad, teasing third man who had been dragged too fine in the previous over, and then further denuded Anderson’s figures with consecutive off-side fours – the first of which was a trademark turf-scorching cover-drive.

Anderson’s day did not improve when Gambhir inside-edged a flash through fine leg to reach his half-century from 59 balls, and though he eventually fell to a lazy poke at Swann two balls later, the manner of his departure would not exactly have given England much cheer. A sharp tweaker turned past the edge to clip the top of off, to give India’s spin twins, Harbhajan Singh and Piyush Chawla, as much food for thought as England’s batsmen. There’s only one way back into this match for England now, and it’s a mighty steep climb with a precipice either side.

 

  

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India-England’s group-B league match ended in a tie in Bangalore on Sunday. India set a target of 339 for England. Sachin Tendulkar scored his 47th ODI century.
Chasing the stiff target, England made a solid start with Capitan Andrew Strauss scoring a 158 – the highest score by an English batsman in World Cup history.
In the final over, England required 14 runs to win. Ajmal Shahzad hit the fourth ball Munaf Patel’s last over for a six as England needed 2 runs off the last ball to win.
Graeme Swann hit a single to tie a nail-biting match off the last ball. 

 


 

India vs England(TIE) Highlights World Cup 2011

india vs england world cup 2011 highlights

It will be the India taking on England on 27th Feb 2011 of 11th Match. On Sunday at the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 since hosts India take on top of England next to the Chinnaswamy Sports ground inside Bangalore. There has been a batch of excitement seeing that fighting fit as controversy around the game. Also watchEngland vs India highlights after match completed.
India opener Virender Sehwag will fool around against England resting on Sunday in spite of suffering a hurt strut in the guide out of bed to the Group B game. While Sachin Tendulkar picks himself on the way to accomplice Sehwag, the battle intended for the center organize has been fierce because the in-form Virat Kohli as well as the explosive Yuvraj Singh fend off opposition intended for their rest within the face on or after Suresh Raina.

 
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The English medium pacers would create a cognizant attempt on the way to bounce out the Indian batsmen up till now once more. This is where the performances of SachinTendulkar , Sehwag as well as Gautam Gambhir would survive enormously important. If they be able to unsettle the English pacers near the beginning on, it would provide them a huge advantage in excess of their opponents. 




The analysis as well as recent history – India beat England in 1999 as well as 2003 point towards an Indian victory. Though, games are not firm on top of numbers. India will require on the road to flipside them by way of a hard performance at the same time as England have to concentrate on receiving their fundamentals precise as well as get belongings on or after at hand onwards. England India highlights. 

 

India and England tie after Tendulkar and Strauss tons

Tendulkar carved his name into the record books when he became the first man to make five World Cup centuries as India piled up 338 in the Group B match at Bangalore.

 




But England hit back when Strauss hit a memorable 158 off 145 balls and Ian Bell made 69 to put their team within sight of a famous victory as they attempted to beat the previous best World Cup successful run chase of 313.
They were well set at 281-2 before spearhead Zaheer Khan returned to dismiss Strauss and Bell in successive balls.

 




India then were favourites to win when England, with eight wickets down, needed 14 off the last over.
But Ajmal Shazhad hit a six off Munaf Patel's third ball before Graeme Swann took a single off the last delivery to ensure only the fourth tie in World Cup history and point apiece as England finished on 338-8.
"The way they started I definitely am happy with a tie," said India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
"When they were two down, the bowlers were finding it very tough. 'Zak' changed it around for us."
Strauss had mixed feelings over the outcome.

 




"We were in a great position to win the game after 41, 42 overs. We had a shocking powerplay and from that stage onwards India were favourites to win the game," he said, praising Swann and Shahzad for their efforts.
"We're happy and devastated at the same time but privileged to play in a game like this."
Zaheer was stunned that 338 was not enough to win the match.
"I felt the wicket got better later on and Strauss batted damn well to put pressure on us and it was a cliffhanger until the end," he said.

 




"Obviously I was wanting the Indian team to win and felt that we would win the game easily but I guess it was a close contest between bat and ball."
Earlier, Tendulkar, playing in a sixth World Cup, made 120 and nipped ahead of compatriot Sourav Ganguly and Australian duo Mark Waugh and Ricky Ponting on four centuries. It was also his 47th career ODI hundred.
The 37-year-old 'Little Master' faced 115 balls and smashed 10 fours and five sixes.
Tendulkar struck Paul Collingwood for two sixes, the second of which took him to a 66-ball fifty, before going on to reach his century off 103 balls when he glanced Tim Bresnan for four.

 




He also shared a second-wicket stand of 134 with Gautam Gambhir (51) while Yuvraj Singh smashed 58.
James Anderson eventually dismissed Tendulkar, but it was the seamer's only success on a grim afternoon when he finished with 1-91, the worst World Cup performance by an England bowler.
Meanwhile, Pakistan sit proudly on top of Group A after an 11-run win over Sri Lanka on Saturday in Colombo gave them two wins in two matches.
Captain Shahid Afridi anchored the win with figures of 4-34 to restrict Sri Lanka -- chasing Pakistan's score of 277-7 -- to 266-9 at R. Premadasa stadium.
"It's a very big win for us," said Afridi, who also completed 300 one-day wickets in his 314th one-day international. "This will raise the morale of the players."

 




There was a minor setback for the Pakistanis on Sunday when they were fined 10 per cent of their match fee for a slow over-rate while Afridi was hit with a 20 per cent sanction.
On Monday, the West Indies, who were defeated in their opener by South Africa, tackle the Netherlands in New Delhi while Zimbabwe meet Canada in Nagpur.