India vs West Indies 2009 2nd ODI – Indian wickets.

Shameful batting by India

India in West Indies ODI Series 2009  - 2nd ODI

India vs West Indies

Played at Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica, 28 June 2009 (50-over match)

Result - West Indies beat India by 8 wickets

Fall of wickets: 1. Dinesh Karthik 4 (0.5), 2. Gautam Gambhir 6 (1.2), 3. Rohit Sharma 7 (1.4), 4. Yuvraj Singh 54 (12.1), 5. Yusuf Pathan 57 (14.2), 6. Ravindra Jadeja 70 (17.1), 7. Harbhajan Singh 81 (20.4), 8. Praveen Kumar 82 (21.3), 9. RP Singh 183 (47.3), 10. MS Dhoni 188 (48.2)

Power Play: 1-10, 11-15, 23-27

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India vs West Indies 2009 : 2nd ODI – Yuvraj’s wicket. The biggest wicket of the match as Yuvraj was looking really dangerous.

With the way the Indian batsmen, barring Yuvraj, are batting these days I think its time to bring back Dravid and make Sachin play all the games. The current crop of batsmen cant handle bouncers and spin, and today they showed they cant handle swing as well. They seem to be just flat track bullies.

Gambhir’s form seems to have deserted him, Rohit is a mystery, Raina and Dhoni just seem to be fraud batsmen. It maybe a backward step but it might be time to reinstate the masters Sachin and Dravid of winning matches for India.

Darren Bravo has won the admiration of rival captains Chris Gayle and MS Dhoni after his brief, yet impressive, first outing in international cricket in the first ODI at Sabina Park. He struck two boundaries in his knock of 19, displaying sound technique and flourish in West Indies’ reply to India’s 339.

“He didn’t show any form of nerves, being around his brother actually calmed him down a bit. He did well batting and in the outfield as well and hopefully he can get a bigger score if the opportunity comes across him again,” Gayle said of Darren Bravo.

Darren Bravo came in to bat following the dismissal of his half-brother Dwayne, and put on 36 in quick time with Shivnarine Chanderpaul, who was anchoring the run chase. But when Chanderpaul fell with the score on 224, the game swung decisively in India’s favour – though they did suffer a lower-order scare – and Darren Bravo followed soon after, miscuing a pull off Harbhajan Singh.

“He’s good. He will improve, the more international cricket he plays the better for him,” Dhoni said, suggesting that youngsters ought to be given more exposure at the international stage. “Most of the players who play at the international level have the talent – it’s just that some players get more backing than others. Some are considered match-winners and often match-winners are given more time compared to others.”

The Indian top-order remained suspect against the short ball with Gautam Gambhir and Rohit Sharma falling to miscued pulls. West Indies will look to exploit this weakness again in the second ODI. On the other hand Yuvraj and Karthik were in good touch in the first match. It is really a new era for the Indian team, with Yuvraj being the mainstay of the batting lineup.

The first match was quite close, West Indies were always up with the required run rate inspite of losing wickets at regular intervals.

Teams

India (likely): 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Dinesh Karthik, 3 Rohit Sharma, 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 MS Dhoni (capt & wk), 6 Yusuf Pathan, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Harbhajan Singh, 9 Ishant Sharma, 10 RP Singh, 11 Ashish Nehra.

West Indies (likely): 1 Chris Gayle (capt), 2 Runako Morton, 3 Ramnaresh Sarwan, 4 Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 5 Dwayne Bravo, 6 Darren Bravo, 7 Denesh Ramdin (wk), 8 Jerome Taylor, 9 David Bernard, 10 Suleiman Benn, 11 Lionel Baker/ Ravi Rampaul.

Timing

Sunday, June 28, 2009
Start time 09.30, 14.30 GMT, 20:00 IST

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