Monday, March 20, 2006

Dodgy decisions do India 'IN'!!

Just when it looked that Dhoni was playing like the Dhoni we know of (when he rocked Freddie after lunch, during the new ball spell), Hariharan, the 3rd umpire gave a decision in favor of England. When the bail ultimately came off, Dhoni was clearly 'in' but Hariharn did him in and there ended the chances of an Indian fight back. The tail again showed great application and the Sreesanth-Kumble partnership was blossoming, when it was Hair's turn to do a la Hariharan (in fact, over the years, Hair has been a la Buckenor to India). He handed over dodgy LBW against Kumble and that is that.
In the morning session, Yuvarj fell into a trap that was even visible to a 6th grader and this is repeated twice now (earlier in Mohali) and Dravid was unlucky to get a faint tickle to a nothing delivery from James Anderson. In the end, the 121 run lead is too tall to climb in my opinion but the gritty display by tail again showed how the top order has been caving in meekly (this is nothing new, been happening from SL series). Dhoni would have easily knocked off a 100, from the manner he got going after lunch and that would have meant the lead to be half of what it is now.
In the Eng 2nd inning, Hair struck to his familiar plot of India bullying by not giving a clean caught behind off Sreesanth and you add the familiar sight of a sitter dropped in slips (Yuvi decided to be the culprit here), India's cup of woe is full. This game is in almost England's pocket now.

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