India Again beats pakistan in the CWC 1999

In the Next Quarter Finals of the ICC cricket world cup, India was against the Pakistani team. This game was played on Old Trafford, Manchester, England on 8th June, 1999. Both teams have played well since now in this ICC Cricket world Cup, 1999. So it would a good contest to witness.

India won the toss and opts to bat first, so this means, Pakistan will bowl first and they will chase whatever India posts in the 1^st innings.

This is how Indian team and 11 were looking like in this match: Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, Venkatesh Prasad, Mohammad Azharuddin (c), Robin Singh, Javagal Srinath, Ajay Jadeja, Nayan Mongia (wk), Debasis Mohanty, Sadagoppan Ramesh

And Pakistan team and 11 were looking like this in this match: Shoaib Akhtar, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Abdul Razzaq, Shahid Afridi, Azhar Mahmood, Saleem Malik, Wasim Akram (c), Ijaz Ahmed, Saeed Anwar, Moin Khan (wk), Saqlain Mushtaq

India started briskly but lost the wicket S Ramesh on team score of 37 runs in 11.2 over’s , but after that India batted superbly and were able to post the total of 227 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 6 wickets. This is a good score as pitch is not much good for batting and pacers were having some help from this pitch. For India Rahul Dravid top scored as he scored 61 runs in 89 balls with 4 4’s and strike rate of 68 runs in 100 balls.

Pakistan was required to chase 228 runs in 50 over’s. Pakistan started cautiously but were soon were 5 wickets down for only 78 runs in 24 over’s of the game. Indian pace Bowler V Prasad bowled well and took 5 wickets by only conceding 27 runs in his 10 over’s with his fine bowling Pakistan were bowled out for 180 runs in 45.3 over’s and Inza mam ul haq top scored for them by scoring 41 runs in 93 balls with 1 four and strike rate of 44 runs in 100 balls. India won the game by 47 runs and V Prasad was the Man of the match for his fine bowling spell.

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