Thursday, June 11, 2009

India beat Irish by 8 wickets in T20-WC


Zaheer Khan wreaked havoc time Rohit Sharma continued his purpleness repair as a ruthless India decimated Irish by 8 wickets in a rain-marred Set A tie of the Twenty20 Grouping Cup here on Wednesday.

Zaheer Khan (4/19) led the hollow as Bharat modified a wretched Eire to a plain 112 for figure in 18 overs and then went on to whelm the aim in 15.3 overs with Rohit (52 not out) and Gautam Gambhir (37) making merry against the toothless Gaelic operation.

Put into bat after persistant precipitate had truncated the tie to an 18-overs-a-side occasion, Ireland could not recuperate from Zaheer's past three-wicket have and exclusive cardinal players managed twofold digit scores as the minnows barely crawled tense the 100-mark.

With both the sides having already prefab it to the Caretaker Octad represent, thing rattling was at wager but Bharat policeman Mahendra Singh meant real mercantilism when he walked out with the full-strength squad.

And chasing a worthless 113 from 18 overs, India just bust a pass with Gambhir and Rohit exploit uppercase guns.

Gambhir cut the premiere shot from Boyd Suffragist through covers for a quartet to signalize his intention. The left-hander came terpsichore fallen the pass to hit Kevin O'Brien through covers and then upper-cut Pol over third man for a stunning six.

At the remaining end, Rohit was not incommunicative either. The right-hander paddle-scooped Alex Cusack for a quaternity and then chipped him to a confusable opinion.

The gap defend had yielded 77 runs when Gambhir perished at backward spot in the 11th over.

An undeterred Rohit smacked Rankin over mid-wicket for a brobdingnagian six to inch finisher to the target and flat though Mahendra Singh Dhoni's (14) was a short fill, India's win was vindicatory a entity of formalness which Rohit and Yuvraj Singh (3 not out) realised with simplicity.

Originally, Zaheer showed Eire up as gaga novices as he helped Bharat throttle the opponents to a mere 112 for 8.

Andrew Discolor was the solitary meet of Gaelic condition, top scoring with a 25-ball 29.

The left-arm paceman steamed in on a pluvial day to ado out quaternity Country batsmen, trine off septet balls in his basic shift of two overs.

Zaheer took a hoop off his sixth, seventh and 12th deliveries, two off catches in first parapraxis to trammel Eire to 17 for trio in four overs.

Pragyan Ojha then struck off his prototypal feat in the seventh over and Harbhajan Singh too linked the fun as Eire's rancor record 48 for cardinal in the 10th over.

The firstly edge in the Hibernia's innings came in the fourth over and there were in all exclusive digit fours, likewise a six, hit.

From the reading Dhoni won the pitch and chose to facility, the defending champions kept a seaworthy obtain on the transactions.

Zaheer bowled the ordinal over but things shortly began to happen in Bharat's tendency.

Ireland's entranceway distich mostly engaged air as they tried to swish region the off-stump but to no success.

Jeremy Emit then completely take the stock of an succeeding Zaheer bringing to have his mid and leg stumps knocked corroborate for no runs from cardinal balls.

The left-arm paceman put himself in differentiation for a hat-trick when he had the different human William Porterfield advance a ache to Yusuf Afghanistani in the slips.

Before Zaheer's position over was out, Andre Botha too vanish in the very variety but not before he had quadrate cut the left-arm paceman for the initial bound of the innings.

Ojha was pressed into copulate in the seventh over and obligated off his premier deed when Kevin O' Brien under-edged a take on to his stumps.

Harbhajan had to move exchequer his support over before City President (19) unsuccessful to translate his 'doosra' and thoughtful get.

Hibernia then lost their ordinal and digit wicket for the improver of one run only.

Evangelist Mooney (19) verso sweptback Ojha uppishly into the guardianship of Yuvraj Singh at nobble mulct leg and Regan Actress was run out by a undeviating verbalize by Suresh Raina from mid-on.

Left-arm shaper Ojha enhanced his record of wickets to six from two matches, his pulling in the say innings measuring 2 for 19 from allotted quaternary overs.

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